Lead Site Reliability Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 5, 2026. First seen by Alion on Jul 30, 2026. London Stock Exchange scores B on the Alion truth index.
Join our Risk Intelligence organization as the Tech Lead - Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) for the Risk Screening Product Line. Based in Nottingham, UK, you will lead the reliability engineering function for critical Screening applications supporting the EMEA region. You will be accountable for ensuring the availability, scalability, performance, and security of business-critical platforms while driving operational resilience and service excellence. 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 organization.
Missions
- Lead the reliability engineering function for critical Screening applications, ensuring availability, scalability, performance, and security.
- Define and implement service level objectives (SLOs), service level indicators (SLIs), and error budgets; maintain reliability scorecards and drive improvements.
- Lead and mentor a team of Site Reliability Engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, learning, and engineering excellence.
Profil recherché
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; ability to influence across technical and business domains- AWS Lambda, ECS, RDS, CloudWatch
- Proven experience managing cloud-native services on Azure and AWS, including: Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Application Gateway, Key Vault, Storage, DNS, Load Balancer, Virtual Machines, Azure Machine Learning, Sentinel
- 8+ years in production operations, SRE, or DevOps roles, with at least 3+ years in a people management capacity
- Strong understanding of SRE principles (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, incident response)
- Strong analytical mindset with a focus on measurable outcomes and continuous improvement
- Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
- Familiarity with observability platforms (Datadog, BigPanda, OpenTelemetry)
- Hands-on experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker)
- Experience working with identity platforms and/or fraud detection systems
- Strong collaborator who builds trust across teams and geographies
- Empathetic and inclusive leader, committed to team well-being and growth
- Calm and structured under pressure; able to lead teams through high-stakes incidents
- Passionate about engineering excellence, automation, and reliability
- Committed to continuous learning and knowledge sharing
- Strategic thinker with a bias for action and accountability