Director of Site Reliability Engineering
EPAM SystemsLondon, England, United Kingdom
Added 12 Aug · still live
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Salary
Not disclosed by employer
£55,000
Going rate
Skilled Worker going rate
This role likely qualifies for a Skilled Worker visa
Our predicted code SOC 1121 (68% match) is an eligible occupation, with a going rate of £55,000, and EPAM Systems is a licensed sponsor. That is our reading of the published rules. Whether they issue a Certificate of Sponsorship is still their call.
About the role
We're looking for a Director of Site Reliability Engineering to join our team in London, United Kingdom in a hybrid working mode.
This role is responsible for driving reliability engineering and operational excellence across global technology platforms while leading the adoption of AI-enabled solutions for automation and efficiency. The position combines strategic leadership with hands-on governance to ensure highly available, resilient systems that align with business and regulatory requirements. As a technology thought leader, you will influence engineering standards, enhance operational frameworks, and foster a culture of continuous improvement across mission-critical environments.
Responsibilities
This role is responsible for driving reliability engineering and operational excellence across global technology platforms while leading the adoption of AI-enabled solutions for automation and efficiency. The position combines strategic leadership with hands-on governance to ensure highly available, resilient systems that align with business and regulatory requirements. As a technology thought leader, you will influence engineering standards, enhance operational frameworks, and foster a culture of continuous improvement across mission-critical environments.
Responsibilities
- Lead and scale a global SRE organization, focusing on engineering excellence and team empowerment
- Collaborate with product, platform, operations, and security teams to embed reliability within SDLC practices
- Define and monitor KPIs for system reliability, performance, and operational efficiency
- Advance automation, Infrastructure as Code approaches, and promote self-healing systems using AI/ML techniques
- Develop robust incident management frameworks and lead major incident response activities for critical systems
- Implement blameless postmortems and deliver systemic improvements across production environments
- Establish observability strategies with standardized tooling for metrics, logs, and tracing to support distributed systems
- Adopt and enforce SRE practices, including SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, and error budgets across services
- Drive resilience strategies with highly available architectures and disaster recovery readiness
- Champion an automation-first culture, leveraging CI/CD pipelines and operational tooling to reduce manual processes
- Strong background in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or platform operations in complex, distributed environments
- Experience in financial services or other highly regulated, mission-critical environments
- Certifications in cloud technologies, such as AWS
- Exposure to AIOps platforms or advanced observability tooling
- EPAM Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Protection benefits including life assurance, income protection and critical illness cover
- Private medical insurance and dental care
- Employee Assistance Program
- Competitive group pension plan
- Cyclescheme, Techscheme and season ticket loans
- Various perks such as free Wednesday lunch in-office, on-site massages and regular social events
- Learning and development opportunities including in-house training and coaching, professional certifications, and courses
- If otherwise eligible, participation in the discretionary annual bonus program
- If otherwise eligible and hired into a qualifying level, participation in the discretionary Long-Term Incentive (LTI) Program
This description is the source posting as it read when we added it. We are not affiliated with EPAM Systems, so check their own site for the current details.
Where this offer sits in the market
SOC 1121 · UK · ONS ASHE 2025 · ~406k in sampleP25 £43kP75 £85k
£31kmedian £59kgoing rate £55k£122k
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Does this job guarantee visa sponsorship?
Not necessarily. EPAM Systems holds a sponsor licence, but sponsorship for a specific hire is always the employer's decision. Be upfront in your application that you'll require it.
What salary is needed for this role to be eligible?
The offer must clear both the general threshold and the SOC 1121 going rate of £55,000. New-entrant and shortage discounts can lower it.