Lead Cloud Site Reliability Engineer​/Manager

Lead Cloud Site Reliability Engineer, Leadership, (Azure or GCP), SLO's, SLO's, Automation

A leading financial Services client is seeking a strong technical leader to help drive and support a large group of SRE engineers across multiple locations. The role will be split 50/50 hands-on, team management. This is an Engineering role, not operations.

• Lead and mentor a team of up to 15 SREs, championing continuous improvement and engineering excellence.
• Partner with application teams as they migrate services to the Cloud.
• Work with Product Owners and Engineering Leads to balance feature delivery with system reliability, performance and health.
• Use observability tooling, performance metrics and SRE principles to proactively identify issues and reduce operational toil.
• Implement Incident and problem management practices, ensuring strong root cause analysis and reduced MTTF/MTTR.
• Champion SLOs, SLIs, error budgets and reliability‑first thinking.
• Influence platform direction and engineering standards to help shape resilient cloud services at scale.

• Strong team management experience (day-to-day, mentoring/coaching)
• Strong cloud engineering background, ideally across Azure and GCP.
• Experience building or operating large‑scale, resilient cloud platforms.
• Deep understanding of observability tooling (metrics, logs, traces).
• Hands‑on experience with modern SRE practices:
• SLOs / SLIs
• Automation to reduce toil
• Production readiness and robust post‑mortems
• Solid understanding of Git Hub pipelines and Terraform modules.
• Proven experience leading high‑performing engineering teams.
• Ability to communicate complex technical topics in a clear, accessible way.
• Comfortable working with diverse stakeholder groups.