SRE Technical Lead - SC Cleared

Site Reliability Engineering Technical Lead - SC ClearedReading area - Hybrid workingUp to £105,000 +bonusActive SC clearance requiredWe''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 OpenShift 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 doingDefine and drive SRE strategy, including SLAs, SLOs, error budgets and reliability standardsProvide technical leadership across complex Kubernetes and OpenShift environmentsDrive automation across monitoring, incident response, recovery and remediationShape observability, capacity management and operational readiness practicesAct as a senior technical escalation point for major incidents and high-risk releasesLead reliability reviews, toil reduction and blameless post-incident improvementsGovern reliability-focused IaC, GitOps and CI/CD practicesMentor Senior SREs and engineers, raising engineering standards across multiple teams and suppliersWhat we''re looking forStrong commercial experience with Kubernetes and OpenShiftProven SRE/reliability engineering experience within large-scale production ..... full job details .....