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When you work with us, you’re part of a global mission to connect people, solve complex challenges, and create a sustainable and more inclusive world. If you want to grow your career whilst finding the perfect balance between work and life, Vodafone offers the opportunities to help you belong and make a real impact.\nThe SRE Staff Engineer will lead the adoption of Site Reliability Engineering across SMA, enabling teams to move from traditional platform management towards a proactive, engineering-led approach to reliability, resilience and platform quality.\nThe role has overall accountability for the operational health and reliability of the SMA platform estate, ensuring platforms operate correctly, meet agreed Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and maintain appropriate standards of resilience, supportability and technical quality. This includes driving the management of technical debt, lifecycle risks and reliability improvements across enterprise-scale SaaS, on-premises, cloud and hybrid platforms.\nAs an SRE evangelist and technical leader, the role will establish direction, influence engineering practices and bring teams on the SRE journey. Working closely with the DevOps Engineering Manager, development teams and data teams, it will ensure the wider SMA organisation delivers customer expectations through consistent platform quality and resilient services.\nThe role will line manage the Operations Manager and four DevOps-focused engineers. It retains overall accountability for platform incident management, while delegating operational coordination and response activities appropriately. Targeted hands-on contribution will support complex problem-solving and demonstrate engineering approaches, rather than being the role’s primary focus.\nWhat you’ll do\nSRE leadership and adoption\nSet the SRE direction and roadmap across SMA, evolving platform management into sustainable reliability engineering.\nChampion SRE principles through practical guidance, coaching and measurable improvements.\nBuild shared ownership of reliability across platform, DevOps, development and data teams.\nEstablish consistent SRE practices across SaaS, on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments.\nPlatform health, resilience and quality\nMaintain accountability for the reliability, resilience and technical quality of SMA platforms.\nProvide a consistent view of platform health, operational risks, dependencies and improvement priorities.\nEnsure technical debt, lifecycle risks, capacity constraints and resilience gaps are identified and addressed.\nSet standards for observability, recovery, supportability and production readiness.\nSLOs and reliability governance\nDefine meaningful SLOs, SLIs and error budgets with platform owners and engineering teams.\nEnsure teams monitor service health, understand SLO risks and implement corrective improvements.\nLead reliability reviews to inform engineering priorities.\nBalance customer expectations, delivery commitments and operational risk.\nIncident and operational leadership\nOwn overall accountability for incident management, service restoration and corrective actions.\nDelegate operational response to the Operations Manager and technical leads while maintaining oversight.\nLead technical oversight of significant incidents and ensure clear escalation and ownership.\nUse blameless incident reviews to prevent recurrence and address underlying technical debt.\nEngineering enablement and people leadership\nLine manage the Operations Manager and four DevOps engineers, providing direction, coaching and development.\nStrengthen SRE capability through mentoring, technical guidance and knowledge sharing.\nImprove collaboration, handovers and platform support knowledge across teams.\nEnable teams to own operational improvements and routine technical decisions.\nCross-team delivery and collaboration\nPartner with the DevOps Engineering Manager, development and data teams to align reliability priorities and engineering capacity.\nEmbed reliability and supportability into platform design, delivery and operational acceptance.\nEstablish clear responsibilities and shared outcomes across engineering and operations.\nEnsure reliability improvements are prioritised alongside new capabilities and platform delivery.\nWho you are\nBachelor/Master's Degree in Computer Science or relate field;\nPrevious experience working in an SRE role, with a strong grounding in DevOps and platform operations;\nExperience leading reliability and operations in a complex, enterprise-scale, multi-platform environment;\nExperience supporting a mixed estate of SaaS, on-premises, cloud and hybrid platforms;\nDemonstrable experience leading SRE adoption and helping teams transition from traditional platform management;\nPractical experience implementing SLOs, SLIs, error budgets and measurable reliability improvements;\nStrong technical understanding of cloud infrastructure, Linux/Unix, networking, infrastructure as code, CI/CD and observability;\nExperience managing platform incidents, technical debt, operational risks and resilience improvements;\nAbility to set technical direction, review designs and contribute directly to complex technical problems when required;\nExperience line managing and developing engineering and operational colleagues;\nStrong influencing and communication skills, with the ability to align distributed platform, development and data teams;\nSecurity monitoring and analytics platforms, including SIEM, SOAR and logging infrastructure (nice to have);\nSupplier collaboration and operational oversight of SaaS services (nice to have);\nDisaster recovery, resilience testing and production readiness (nice to have);\nRelevant SRE, cloud or DevOps qualifications, or equivalent professional experience (nice to have);\nFluency in English.\nNot a perfect fit?\nWorried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about empowering people and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to still apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another opportunity.\nWhat's in it for you\nHybrid Work Model - Flexible hybrid work model with 8-10 in-office days per month, managed by team leaders;\nVodafone Products and Services - Employees get a mobile phone, free communication plan, data card, and various discounts on services and products;\nRecognition - Recognition programs for innovative, creative, high-potential employees and exemplary behaviors;\nHealth and Well-being - Well-being Program offers nutrition and psychological consultations, webinars, workshops, and discounts on various services and products;\nLearning - Access to Communities of Practice and a customizable digital training platform with high-quality content (namely Harvard Business Publishing, Skillsoft and Speexx);\nLocal and International Mobility - Internal recruitment with local and international rotation opportunities across departments and roles.\nWho we are\nWe are a leading international Telco, serving millions of customers. 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