Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SC Cleared)

Job Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SC Cleared)
Location: Remote
Contract Length: 6 months (with scope to extend)
Start Date: November 2026
IR35: Inside
Interview Process: 1 Stage, MS Teams
Clearance Required: SC (active, unelapsed clearance required)
We are supporting a government client in hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join its SRE team, driving the adoption of SRE best practice across a large cloud estate.
Using both soft skills and technical experience, the successful candidates will work with application teams to ensure the client's standards and governance are met when onboarding services into the cloud, through a dedicated assessment stage gate process, ensuring applications satisfy the operational and security needs of running in production. Working with development teams from the design phase, they will help apply good practice and standards to application infrastructure, supporting reliable and secure solutions for the public.
This is a senior role that leads by example, providing technical direction and supporting other SREs within the team. It suits an engineer who can influence and coach development teams as well as respond hands-on to major incidents. Participation in an out-of-hours on-call rota is a requirement.
Key Responsibilities
Drive adoption of SRE best practice across the cloud estate, including onboarding services through an assessment stage gate process
Design and develop techniques for improving application reliability, runbooks, knowledge