SRE Technical Lead - SC Cleared

Site Reliability Engineering Technical Lead - SC Cleared Reading area - Hybrid working Up to £105,000 bonus Active SC clearance required We're looking for an experienced SC Cleared SRE Technical Lead to take a leading role within a major UK Critical National Infrastructure programme. This is a senior technical leadership position for someone who can combine strong Kubernetes and Open Shift expertise with genuine Site Reliability Engineering experience.

You'll act as the technical authority for SRE across multiple teams and suppliers, owning reliability standards and helping ensure complex, business-critical platforms remain stable, scalable and resilient. What you'll be doing Define and drive SRE strategy, including SLAs, SLOs, error budgets and reliability standards Provide technical leadership across complex Kubernetes and Open Shift environments Drive automation across monitoring, incident response, recovery and remediation Shape observability, capacity management and operational readiness practices Act as a senior technical escalation point for major incidents and high-risk releases Lead reliability reviews, toil reduction and blameless post-incident improvements Govern reliability-focused IaC, Git Ops and CI/CD practices Mentor Senior SREs and engineers, raising engineering standards across multiple teams and suppliers What we're looking for Strong commercial experience with Kubernetes and Open Shift Proven SRE/reliability engineering experience within large-scale production environments Experience defining or working with SLAs, SLOs and error budgets Strong observability experience with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo or Open Telemetry Strong Infrastructure as Code and Git Ops experience - ideally Helm, Kustomize, ArgoCD and/or Tekton Experience across multi-cloud or hybrid environments Strong CI/CD and automation experience Ability to provide technical leadership, influence engineering teams and mentor others without relying on formal line management Active SC clearance

Experience with Istio, Red Hat ACM/ACS, Submariner or enterprise Postgres would be advantageous. What's on offer Up to £105,000  bonus Hybrid working in the Reading area Opportunity to become the SRE technical authority on a major Critical National Infrastructure programme Modern Kubernetes/Open Shift environment with genuine scope to shape reliability engineering practices Extensive professional development, certifications and long-term career progression Flexible benefits and a strong focus on employee wellbeing RSG Plc is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.