SRE Lead

SRE Lead - Up to £110,000 + Bonus & Benefits
Location: Crawley, Hybrid (1 day a week onsite)

Are you ready to lead a high-performing team and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of infrastructure and reliability engineering?

We're looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Team Lead / Technical Lead who is passionate about driving operational excellence and has a clear vision for building scalable, resilient systems. In this role, you'll lead from the front; mentoring a team of DevOps Engineers, implementing best-in-class practices, and owning the evolution of cloud infrastructure at a key growth stage in the company's journey.

This is more than a leadership position. It's an opportunity to have a real and lasting impact. Your work will directly influence the reliability and performance of mission-critical platforms and enable the business to scale confidently and securely.

What You'll Be Doing:

Lead, inspire, and develop a growing team of DevOps Engineers, setting clear goals and driving team performance.
Define and deliver the company's SRE strategy, aligning it with wider technical and business goals.
Collaborate across engineering, product, and security teams to ensure operational excellence and seamless delivery.
Architect, implement, and manage secure, scalable AWS infrastructure with a focus on automation and performance.
Champion the use of Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, containerisation, and cloud-native design patterns.
Implement monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices that promote continuous improvement and service resilience.
Act as a trusted voice in technical forums and senior leadership discussions, bringing clarity to complex challenges.What You Bring:

Proven experience leading and mentoring high-performing technical teams.
Deep hands-on expertise with AWS (EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, Fargate, IAM, VPC, etc.).
Strong skills in automation and configuration management-especially Ansible (Terraform experience a plus).
Solid grasp of SRE and DevOps principles including CI/CD, GitOps, observability, and infrastructure as code.
A strategic mindset with excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Bonus Skills (Desirable but not essential):

Exposure to Microsoft Azure.
Kubernetes and container orchestration.
Knowledge of cloud security best practices and regulatory compliance (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC 2).What You'll Get:

Salary up to £110,000 plus bonus and a comprehensive benefits package.
Hybrid working model (1 day per week onsite in Crawley).
25 days holiday (rising with service) + your birthday off.
EV salary sacrifice car scheme.
Excellent pension scheme.
Access to training, development, and career progression in a supportive environment.

Ready to drive real change and help scale a company's cloud infrastructure from the ground up?
Apply now to be a key player in an ambitious and forward-thinking engineering team.

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