Senior SRE (SC Cleared) – Remote, Incident Leader

Montash; United States; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Montash is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SC Cleared) to work remotely on a government client project. You will drive SRE best practices across a large cloud estate, onboard services through assessment gates, and lead incident response with a strong focus on reliability and security.

The role requires hands-on engineering, coaching across teams, and participation in a 24/7 on-call rota, with influence on design, monitoring, and automation initiatives within production environments.

Qualifications

• Extensive SRE experience driving reliability and observability.
• Experience leading incident investigations and post-incident reviews.
• Experience managing error budgets with product owners.
• Ability to onboard services to production via stage gates.
• Experience implementing monitoring and runbooks.
• Ability to assess change impact with stakeholders.
• Experience reducing toil through automation.
• Strong communication and influence across teams.

Responsibilities

• Drive adoption of SRE best practice across cloud estate and onboarding.
• Design techniques to improve reliability, runbooks, and knowledge transfer.
• Collaborate with development teams from design phase with guidance on best practice.
• Promote engineering ownership and maintenance of live services.
• Manage the error budget in alignment with the product owner.
• Act as focal point for major/complex incidents and ensure resourcing.
• Conduct reviews for high priority incidents and publish outcomes.
• Assess change requests with stakeholders and authorize implementations.
• Coach and mentor engineers in SRE practices.
• Reduce toil and increase automation for reliability.
• Capture stakeholder input and promote collaboration and innovation.
• Provide on-call support and participate in out-of-hours rota.

Skills

SRE Experience

Incident Management

Observability

Automation

On-call Experience

Stakeholder Communication

Job description

Montash is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SC Cleared) to work remotely on a government client project. You will drive SRE best practices across a large cloud estate, onboard services through assessment gates, and lead incident response with a strong focus on reliability and security.

The role requires hands-on engineering, coaching across teams, and participation in a 24/7 on-call rota, with influence on design, monitoring, and automation initiatives within production environments.