London Stock Exchange
Lead Site Reliability Engineer
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Nottingham, United Kingdom
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Lead
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Category
- Sre
- Posted
Skills
Full description
- We are seeking an accomplished and forward-thinking technical leader to join our Risk Intelligence organisation as the Tech Lead – Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) for the Risk Screening Product Line
- Based in Nottingham, UK, this role will lead the reliability engineering function for critical Screening applications supporting the EMEA region
- The successful candidate will be accountable for ensuring the availability, scalability, performance, and security of business-critical platforms while driving operational resilience and service excellence across a complex, cloud-native technology landscape
- As a key technical leader, you will combine deep expertise in Site Reliability Engineering, cloud operations, and modern software delivery practices with a passion for building high-performing engineering teams
- You will lead reliability strategies, incident management, automation initiatives, and continuous improvement efforts, while partnering closely with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to align technology outcomes with organisational objectives
- This role offers an exciting opportunity to influence engineering culture, mentor and develop talent, and establish best-in-class operational practices within a growing and innovative UK-based technology organisation
- Technical Ownership for Identity & Fraud Platforms:
- Lead 24×7 reliability operations for Screening services, ensuring uptime, performance, and compliance across WC1 and World Check verify Applications
- Define and implement SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets; maintain reliability scorecards and drive improvements through engineering backlogs
- Act as Major Incident Commander during critical outages; lead blameless post-incident reviews and ensure learnings are institutionalized
- Drive automation-first mindset across incident response, deployment, compliance, and observability
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to embed non-functional requirements and secure-by-design principles into delivery pipelines
- Co-own cloud reliability roadmap with platform teams; standardize tooling for observability, ITSM, and incident communication
- Ensure DR readiness, runbook quality, and resilience patterns are consistently applied across services
- People Leadership:
- Lead and mentor a team of SRE engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, learning, and engineering excellence
- Drive career development, performance management, and technical capability growth across the team
- Collaborate with HR and Talent teams to build local hiring pipelines and support workforce planning
- Promote well-being and psychological safety within the team; ensure compliance with health and safety standards
- Represent Nottingham site in global SRE forums; contribute to offshore strategy and location planning
- Partner with vendors and staffing partners to manage workforce augmentation and ensure delivery quality