Saint Albans
Head of SRE (DevOps-Led Cloud Transformation) St Albans (Hybrid) Up to £92,500 + Bonus + Shares Method Resourcing have partnered with a rapidly scaling, PE-backed international technology business operating in highly critical, high-availability sectors. Following significant growth and multiple acquisitions, the business is entering a major modernisation phase - including the migration of four data centres into Microsoft Azure and the evolution of its DevOps and reliability operating model. This is a newly created Head of SRE role with a strong DevOps focus. The Opportunity Reporting to the Engineering Director, you will lead a team of 6 (3 DevOps, 3 QA) and take ownership of platform reliability, cloud infrastructure strategy, and automation maturity across the organisation. Key areas of focus include: • Leading large-scale migration from on-premise data centres to Azure, • Elevating Infrastructure-as-Code standards and governance, • Strengthening CI/CD pipelines and reducing manual deployment overhead, • Ensuring platforms are scalable, resilient, and ready for mass usage, • Embedding observability and proactive reliability practices, • Integrating QA effectively into the DevOps life cycle, • Strong Azure cloud engineering background, • Experience leading DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering functions, • Proven track record in infrastructure modernisation and automation, • Deep understanding of Infrastructure as Code (eg Terraform, Bicep, ARM), • Experience supporting high-availability production systems, • Ability to manage and develop engineering teams Why Consider This Role? • Newly created leadership position with real ownership, • Major cloud transformation programme underway, • Opportunity to define reliability and DevOps standards at group level, • PE-backed business with international footprint and strong growth trajectory RSG Plc is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.