Lead SRE

Lead Site Reliability Engineer, Team Lead, SRE, Azure, AWS, Site Reliability, London, Hybrid

Harris Global are currently looking for a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to join our client on an initial 6 month contract. This role will require 3 days per week onsite in London.

This is a true SRE role, not just DevOps so you'll need proven experience running large scale, resilient systems alongside the ability to lead a team.

Responsibilities:

• Leading a team of engineers, setting direction and ensuring SRE best practices are adopted across projects
• Spending around 50% of your time hands on with design, build and troubleshooting of cloud-native systems
• Working across both Azure and AWS environments, ensuring systems are scalable, secure and highly available
• Managing and optimising containerised workloads with Kubernetes
• Building observability and monitoring frameworks to ensure performance and reliability
• Partnering with stakeholders and engineering teams to drive continuous improvement, automation and operational excellence

Skills:

• Proven leadership experience (you've managed or led SRE/engineering teams before)
• Strong background as a Site Reliability Engineer, with experience beyond DevOps tooling alone
• Expertise with Azure and AWS cloud platforms
• Solid skills in Kubernetes and container orchestration at scale
• Strong knowledge of monitoring, incident management, automation and infrastructure-as-code
• Excellent communicator with the ability to influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Lead Site Reliability Engineer, Team Lead, SRE, Azure, AWS, Site Reliability, London, Hybrid