About the role

  • Support and enhance a wide range of platform technologies, including VMware infrastructure, container platforms and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, OpenShift), databases, and applications.
  • Use Infrastructure as Code to manage environments and support CI/CD pipelines.
  • Improve observability using tools such as Dynatrace, ensuring proactive monitoring and alerting.
  • Lead and contribute to post-mortems to identify and implement long-term fixes.
  • Troubleshoot complex issues across the platform stack, including infrastructure, networking, storage, databases, and applications.
  • Work in Agile teams, collaborating with engineers, architects, and product owners across the organisation.
  • Identify and implement automation opportunities to reduce manual effort and improve operational efficiency.

Requirements

  • Strong understanding of DevOps principles, including Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD.
  • Experience with container platforms and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift).
  • Hands-on experience with VMware technologies in a production environment.
  • Familiarity with observability platforms, such as Dynatrace.
  • Proven ability to troubleshoot across a broad range of platform technologies.
  • Experience with either Linux or Windows operating systems.
  • A mindset focused on continuous improvement and reducing manual steps through automation.
  • Experience with automation tools and APIs for infrastructure management would be really useful.
  • Exposure to configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet).
  • Leadership or mentoring experience in technical teams.
  • Certifications in VMware or any major cloud provider (e.g., Azure, GCP, AWS).
  • Background in system administration or software engineering with a strong aptitude for learning cloud-native practices.

Benefits

  • A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
  • An annual performance-related bonus
  • Share schemes including free shares.
  • Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
  • 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
  • A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Job title

Private Cloud SRE Manager

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

£70,929 - £78,810 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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