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 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 doing Define and drive SRE strategy, including SLAs, SLOs, error budgets and reliability standards Provide technical leadership across complex Kubernetes and OpenShift 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, GitOps 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 OpenShift Proven SRE/reliability engineering experience within ..... full job details .....