Site Reliability Manager – Environment Strategy

Overview

In this role, you will lead a team focused on environment strategy, automation, patch governance and operational reliability for AWS-based platforms. You will define the vision and roadmap for site reliability, drive best practices, and ensure resilience across production and non-production systems. You will manage people, budgets and schedules while maintaining strong technical standards and regulatory compliance. This is an opportunity to shape reliability at scale within a hybrid/London-based team, partnering across security, engineering and operations.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the vision and roadmap for site reliability and environment strategy
• Lead, mentor and develop a team of DevOps and environment engineers
• Set and enforce standards for environment provisioning, lifecycle management and patch governance
• Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code and automation-first practices across environments
• Oversee monitoring, alerting and operational readiness to meet availability and performance objectives
• Partner with security, engineering and operations teams to reduce risk and ensure compliance
• Build continuous improvement processes and establish key performance metrics for reliability

Key requirements

• 8+ years of experience in site reliability, DevOps or platform engineering roles
• Strong knowledge of AWS platforms and cloud infrastructure principles
• Proven ability to manage teams and operational priorities in complex environments
• Experience implementing automation using Terraform or CloudFormation
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and operational monitoring with tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus and Grafana
• Understanding of OS patching for Windows Server and RHEL as part of governance practices
• Background in risk management, compliance frameworks and incident response processes
• Excellent leadership, communication and stakeholder management skills

• leadership
• stakeholder management
• communication
• Terraform
• CloudFormation
• CI/CD pipelines

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