Inspire People
Darlington, County Durham
Become part of a mission-driven digital team helping to build reliable, secure and scalable digital services that support economic growth across the UK. The Department for Business and Trade (DBT), in partnership with Inspire People, is seeking a Senior SRE Squad Lead with experience leading and developing engineers, strong DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering expertise, cloud platform experience, infrastructure-as-code capability and a passion for building resilient distributed systems. Based in London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham or Salford, this permanent Grade 7 opportunity offers hybrid working, flexible working patterns and a salary of £63,824 to £80,158 (London £67,547 to £83,778,) depending on location and technical skills assessed at interview. Shape Reliable Digital Services at the Department for Business and Trade The Department for Business and Trade has a clear mission: to grow the economy by helping businesses invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the UK. DBT's Digital, Data and Technology directorate develops and operates the tools and services that enable this mission. As a Senior SRE Squad Lead, you will play a key role in leading engineers while remaining hands-on in the design, delivery and continuous improvement of reliable, secure and scalable platform services that underpin critical digital products and services. As a Senior SRE Squad Lead you will: Lead and support a team of Site Reliability Engineers, setting clear direction while fostering an inclusive, collaborative and high-performing team culture. Build strong working relationships with product, delivery and architecture colleagues to ensure platform services meet business and user needs. Provide technical leadership across DevOps and SRE practices, guiding teams to adopt approaches that support reliability, sustainability and continuous improvement. Coach, mentor and support engineers across DDaT, contributing to a supportive and diverse engineering community. Design, build and maintain reliable, secure and scalable cloud-based infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code approaches. Enable teams to develop effective observability practices, including monitoring, logging, metrics and alerting that support proactive service management. Work with teams to define and embed Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets in a pragmatic and user-focused way. Support the development and continual improvement of CI/CD pipelines to enable safe, frequent and low-risk delivery of changes. Oversee live service reliability, supporting teams through incident and problem management while encouraging a learning-focused, blameless culture. Ensure security, resilience and compliance considerations are understood and embedded into engineering practices. Essential skills for the Senior SRE Squad Lead include: Experience leading, supporting and developing engineers, including line management or strong mentoring experience. Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly and build effective relationships with a range of stakeholders. Experience of working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, applying modern DevOps and SRE practices. Experience designing and delivering infrastructure-as-code solutions using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation or similar. Ability to write clean, maintainable and well-tested code in at least one programming language. Experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems, with a focus on reliability, performance and user impact. In return, you can expect a flexible working culture, including: Flexible hybrid working, typically 2-3 days per week in the office. Full-time, part-time and flexible working options. A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%. Annual leave starting at 25 days, rising to 30 days with service. Three paid volunteering days every year. Learning and development tailored to your role. Access to professional qualifications, certifications and technical training. An inclusive culture that encourages learning, collaboration and continuous improvement. Employee benefits including cycle-to-work and wider Civil Service benefits Why Join DBT? This is an opportunity to combine technical leadership with hands-on engineering in a modern cloud environment. You'll work alongside experienced SRE and DevOps professionals, helping shape platform strategy, improve service reliability and support the delivery of critical digital services across government. The team is actively investing in observability, service-level management, platform automation, developer experience and cloud engineering. You'll join a culture that values collaboration, continuous learning and the freedom to explore new ideas, while making a tangible impact on services used across the Department for Business and Trade. This role requires SC clearance. DBT's requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years. Failure to meet this requirement will result in your application being rejected and your offer withdrawn. If you're an experienced Site Reliability Engineering leader who wants to remain close to technology while helping engineers thrive and delivering services that matter, apply today via Inspire People. JBRP1_UKTJ
Become part of a mission-driven digital team helping to build reliable, secure and scalable digital services that support economic growth across the UK. The Department for Business and Trade (DBT), in partnership with Inspire People, is seeking a Senior SRE Squad Lead with experience leading and developing engineers, strong DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering expertise, cloud platform experience, infrastructure-as-code capability and a passion for building resilient distributed systems. Based in London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham or Salford, this permanent Grade 7 opportunity offers hybrid working, flexible working patterns and a salary of £63,824 to £80,158 (London £67,547 to £83,778,) depending on location and technical skills assessed at interview. Shape Reliable Digital Services at the Department for Business and Trade The Department for Business and Trade has a clear mission: to grow the economy by helping businesses invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the UK. DBT's Digital, Data and Technology directorate develops and operates the tools and services that enable this mission. As a Senior SRE Squad Lead, you will play a key role in leading engineers while remaining hands-on in the design, delivery and continuous improvement of reliable, secure and scalable platform services that underpin critical digital products and services. As a Senior SRE Squad Lead you will: Lead and support a team of Site Reliability Engineers, setting clear direction while fostering an inclusive, collaborative and high-performing team culture. Build strong working relationships with product, delivery and architecture colleagues to ensure platform services meet business and user needs. Provide technical leadership across DevOps and SRE practices, guiding teams to adopt approaches that support reliability, sustainability and continuous improvement. Coach, mentor and support engineers across DDaT, contributing to a supportive and diverse engineering community. Design, build and maintain reliable, secure and scalable cloud-based infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code approaches. Enable teams to develop effective observability practices, including monitoring, logging, metrics and alerting that support proactive service management. Work with teams to define and embed Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets in a pragmatic and user-focused way. Support the development and continual improvement of CI/CD pipelines to enable safe, frequent and low-risk delivery of changes. Oversee live service reliability, supporting teams through incident and problem management while encouraging a learning-focused, blameless culture. Ensure security, resilience and compliance considerations are understood and embedded into engineering practices. Essential skills for the Senior SRE Squad Lead include: Experience leading, supporting and developing engineers, including line management or strong mentoring experience. Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly and build effective relationships with a range of stakeholders. Experience of working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, applying modern DevOps and SRE practices. Experience designing and delivering infrastructure-as-code solutions using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation or similar. Ability to write clean, maintainable and well-tested code in at least one programming language. Experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems, with a focus on reliability, performance and user impact. In return, you can expect a flexible working culture, including: Flexible hybrid working, typically 2-3 days per week in the office. Full-time, part-time and flexible working options. A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%. Annual leave starting at 25 days, rising to 30 days with service. Three paid volunteering days every year. Learning and development tailored to your role. Access to professional qualifications, certifications and technical training. An inclusive culture that encourages learning, collaboration and continuous improvement. Employee benefits including cycle-to-work and wider Civil Service benefits Why Join DBT? This is an opportunity to combine technical leadership with hands-on engineering in a modern cloud environment. You'll work alongside experienced SRE and DevOps professionals, helping shape platform strategy, improve service reliability and support the delivery of critical digital services across government. The team is actively investing in observability, service-level management, platform automation, developer experience and cloud engineering. You'll join a culture that values collaboration, continuous learning and the freedom to explore new ideas, while making a tangible impact on services used across the Department for Business and Trade. This role requires SC clearance. DBT's requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years. Failure to meet this requirement will result in your application being rejected and your offer withdrawn. If you're an experienced Site Reliability Engineering leader who wants to remain close to technology while helping engineers thrive and delivering services that matter, apply today via Inspire People. JBRP1_UKTJ
Blue Light Card Ltd
Leicester, Leicestershire
Blue Light Card. Individually great, together unstoppable The Role and the Team We're looking for a Platform Lead to join our Engineering team at Blue Light Card at a pivotal moment. This is a foundational role, with the platform function just getting started and a real opportunity to shape its direction, culture, and impact from the ground up. As Platform Lead, you'll own platform engineering end to end, setting the strategy, building the team, and ensuring product squads have the tooling, infrastructure, and paved roads they need to deliver with confidence. You'll define what "production ready" means across the organisation and work closely with Staff Engineers and Engineering Managers to make the right technical choices the easiest ones to make. This is a hands on leadership role that balances deep technical involvement with organisational impact. You'll stay close to the technology and the challenges teams face, while owning the platform roadmap, influencing technical direction, and building a platform team that product squads trust and rely on. What you'll do Lead and develop the Platform Engineering team, creating an environment where engineers and squads can thrive Own the platform roadmap, ensuring it delivers clear value to product teams and supports business growth Act as the trusted technical authority for platform and infrastructure decisions across engineering Set clear, practical production readiness standards covering reliability, observability, security, scalability, and cost Build and evolve paved road platform solutions, reference architectures, and reusable tooling Embed strong operational practices, including SLOs, alerting, and effective incident management Use operational data and insights to continuously improve platform reliability, performance, and efficiency Enable product teams to be increasingly self sufficient through great documentation, collaboration, and thoughtful use of automation and AI What you'll bring Proven experience leading a Platform, Infrastructure, or SRE function in a product led engineering organisation Deep, hands on AWS expertise across compute, networking, storage, serverless, and security Strong Terraform experience, building reusable infrastructure as code that teams actively adopt Experience defining and operating SLOs, observability standards, and incident management at scale Ability to set technical direction and communicate it clearly to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders A strong people focus, with a track record of mentoring engineers and building high performing teams Experience with CI/CD pipelines, monitoring and logging platforms, and modern platform engineering practices A commercial mindset, connecting platform investment to delivery speed, cost efficiency, and positive business outcomes Our Culture Our members, partners and colleagues are at the heart of everything we do. Our colleagues are integral to helping create the unique experience we deliver, so we're genuinely committed to creating a place where our team love to work, and people want to join. We work as a team and try to have a bit of fun while we do it, and we recognise the importance of culture and the positive impact it can have on performance for you, the team, our organisation and our members. We believe in attracting the best talent no matter where you are, and have a hybrid working model, with colleagues based in London, the East Midlands and around the country. We're also officially recognised as a Top 100 Great Place To Work UK, one of the UK's Best Workplaces for Wellbeing, Top 100 Best Workplaces for Women and recognised as investors in wellbeing by Investors in People. What We Offer Hybrid working 25 days plus public holidays, buy and sell and an additional day off for your birthday A company bonus scheme Great social events e.g., Christmas party, family fun day, summer party, sports matches Learning and development opportunities Group auto enrolment pension plan Enhanced maternity, paternity, sick pay Company funded private medical insurance Healthcare cashback plan Employee assistance programme (including mental health support) Modern office space with onsite gym including access to free HIIT & stretch classes, games area, chill out areas, book club, and more, when you visit our HQ in Cossington
Blue Light Card. Individually great, together unstoppable The Role and the Team We're looking for a Platform Lead to join our Engineering team at Blue Light Card at a pivotal moment. This is a foundational role, with the platform function just getting started and a real opportunity to shape its direction, culture, and impact from the ground up. As Platform Lead, you'll own platform engineering end to end, setting the strategy, building the team, and ensuring product squads have the tooling, infrastructure, and paved roads they need to deliver with confidence. You'll define what "production ready" means across the organisation and work closely with Staff Engineers and Engineering Managers to make the right technical choices the easiest ones to make. This is a hands on leadership role that balances deep technical involvement with organisational impact. You'll stay close to the technology and the challenges teams face, while owning the platform roadmap, influencing technical direction, and building a platform team that product squads trust and rely on. What you'll do Lead and develop the Platform Engineering team, creating an environment where engineers and squads can thrive Own the platform roadmap, ensuring it delivers clear value to product teams and supports business growth Act as the trusted technical authority for platform and infrastructure decisions across engineering Set clear, practical production readiness standards covering reliability, observability, security, scalability, and cost Build and evolve paved road platform solutions, reference architectures, and reusable tooling Embed strong operational practices, including SLOs, alerting, and effective incident management Use operational data and insights to continuously improve platform reliability, performance, and efficiency Enable product teams to be increasingly self sufficient through great documentation, collaboration, and thoughtful use of automation and AI What you'll bring Proven experience leading a Platform, Infrastructure, or SRE function in a product led engineering organisation Deep, hands on AWS expertise across compute, networking, storage, serverless, and security Strong Terraform experience, building reusable infrastructure as code that teams actively adopt Experience defining and operating SLOs, observability standards, and incident management at scale Ability to set technical direction and communicate it clearly to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders A strong people focus, with a track record of mentoring engineers and building high performing teams Experience with CI/CD pipelines, monitoring and logging platforms, and modern platform engineering practices A commercial mindset, connecting platform investment to delivery speed, cost efficiency, and positive business outcomes Our Culture Our members, partners and colleagues are at the heart of everything we do. Our colleagues are integral to helping create the unique experience we deliver, so we're genuinely committed to creating a place where our team love to work, and people want to join. We work as a team and try to have a bit of fun while we do it, and we recognise the importance of culture and the positive impact it can have on performance for you, the team, our organisation and our members. We believe in attracting the best talent no matter where you are, and have a hybrid working model, with colleagues based in London, the East Midlands and around the country. We're also officially recognised as a Top 100 Great Place To Work UK, one of the UK's Best Workplaces for Wellbeing, Top 100 Best Workplaces for Women and recognised as investors in wellbeing by Investors in People. What We Offer Hybrid working 25 days plus public holidays, buy and sell and an additional day off for your birthday A company bonus scheme Great social events e.g., Christmas party, family fun day, summer party, sports matches Learning and development opportunities Group auto enrolment pension plan Enhanced maternity, paternity, sick pay Company funded private medical insurance Healthcare cashback plan Employee assistance programme (including mental health support) Modern office space with onsite gym including access to free HIIT & stretch classes, games area, chill out areas, book club, and more, when you visit our HQ in Cossington
