Tech Lead (Site Reliability Engineering)
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 29, 2026. First seen by Alion on Aug 13, 2026. London Stock Exchange scores B on the Alion truth index.
Join our Risk Intelligence organization as the Tech Lead for Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) in Nottingham, UK. In this role, you will lead the reliability engineering function for critical Screening applications, ensuring their availability, scalability, performance, and security. You will drive operational resilience and service excellence across a complex, cloud-native technology landscape. As a key technical leader, you will mentor and develop talent, establish best-in-class operational practices, and influence engineering culture.
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 Engineering (SRE) 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- 8+ years in production operations, SRE, or DevOps roles, with at least 3+ years in a people management capacity
- AWS Lambda, ECS, RDS, CloudWatch
- Strong analytical mindset with a focus on measurable outcomes and continuous improvement
- Familiarity with observability platforms (Datadog, BigPanda, OpenTelemetry)
- Passionate about engineering excellence, automation, and reliability
- Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
- 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
- Strong understanding of SRE principles (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, incident response)
- Committed to continuous learning and knowledge sharing
- Calm and structured under pressure; able to lead teams through high-stakes incidents
- Hands-on experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker)
- Strategic thinker with a bias for action and accountability
- 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