Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SC Cleared) — Remote Lead

Montash; United States; Remote; GBP 78,000 - 123,000; Full time

Job summary

Montash is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SC Cleared) for a remote role on a 6‑month contract with the possibility of extension. Start date November 2026. You will drive SRE best practices across a large cloud estate and collaborate with application teams to meet governance standards during onboarding to production.

You will lead incidents, balance the error budget with product owners, and coach other engineers in SRE practices while participating in an on‑call rotation.

Qualifications

• We are supporting a government client in hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to join its SRE team.
• Work with application teams to ensure standards and governance are met when onboarding services into the cloud.
• This is a senior role that leads by example, providing technical direction and supporting other SREs within the team.
• Participation in an out-of-hours on-call rota is a requirement.

Responsibilities

• Drive adoption of SRE best practice across the cloud estate.
• Design and develop techniques for improving application reliability and runbooks.
• Collaborate with development teams from design phase and ensure monitoring is enabled.
• Manage the error budget and coordinate with product owners.
• Lead investigations of major incidents and publish outcomes.
• Coach and mentor engineers in SRE practices.
• Provide on-call support and participate in rota.

Job description

Montash is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SC Cleared) for a remote role on a 6‑month contract with the possibility of extension. Start date November 2026. You will drive SRE best practices across a large cloud estate and collaborate with application teams to meet governance standards during onboarding to production.

You will lead incidents, balance the error budget with product owners, and coach other engineers in SRE practices while participating in an on‑call rotation.