Site Reliability Engineering Manager

Job Req ID: 59369

Posting Date: 15/06/2026

Function: Digital

Location: Ipswich

Salary: Competitive + great benefits

About the role

This role is responsible for ensuring the stability, reliability, performance, and governance of OR platforms across CRM, Workflow, Network, and Field Operations. 
It combines Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) leadership with operational governance, driving automation, observability, and best practices to improve service reliability and operational efficiency. The role acts as a senior point of contact for operational performance, risk, compliance, and service health, while partnering with platform teams to deliver resilient, secure, and scalable systems. Success requires strong technical expertise, stakeholder management, and the ability to foster an engineering-led culture focused on continuous improvement and business outcomes.

 

This role may require UK travel, including occasional visits to client sites or other offices (around 3–4 times per quarter), as well as providing out-of-hours support during critical releases and incident situations.

What you’ll be doing

• Own the operational reliability, availability, and performance of OR platforms across CRM, Workflow, IIP, and Field Operations.
• Drive the adoption of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, including automation, observability, incident management, and continuous improvement.
• Monitor service health, identify reliability risks, and lead initiatives to improve system resilience and operational efficiency.
• Lead major incident and problem management activities, ensuring root causes are identified and permanently addressed.
• Establish and govern operational standards, service level objectives (SLOs), and best practices across platforms.
• Coordinate proactive patching, vulnerability remediation, and compliance with security, privacy, regulatory, and IT General Control (ITGC) requirements.
• Partner with engineering, platform, and business teams to balance service reliability, operational risk, and delivery priorities.
• Provide operational performance reporting and insights to senior stakeholders, translating technical issues into business impact.
• Drive automation and tooling initiatives that reduce manual effort and improve operational effectiveness.
• Coach and mentor teams on SRE principles, fostering a culture of reliability, accountability, and engineering excellence.

Essential Skills / Experience

• Strong experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Production Operations, or Platform Engineering.
• Deep understanding of system reliability, availability, performance management, and resilience engineering.
• Understanding of ITSM.
• Experience implementing observability solutions (monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting).
• Proven ability to drive automation and self-healing capabilities to reduce operational toil.
• Experience with incident, problem, change, and release management processes.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, confidently engaging senior business and technology leaders, translating complex technical issues into clear business priorities, and managing competing demands with effective communication and governance (including executive reporting).

Desirable Skills / Experience

• ITSM Certifications
• Experience with Dynatrace, ServiceNow, Github or any similar platforms/tools. 
• Knowledge of cloud, infrastructure, networking, databases, and application architectures.
• Proven ability to drive operational excellence by establishing best practices, improving service reliability and SLA/SLO performance, leading incident resolution, and coordinating risk, patching, and compliance activities across complex platforms.
• Strong understanding of governance, risk and compliance, balancing security and regulatory requirements with business agility, and experienced in managing audits, compliance reviews, and risk mitigation initiatives.
• Strong leadership and influencing skills, building an engineering-led operations culture, coaching teams to embed SRE practices, and driving organisational change across matrixed environments.
• Strategic mindset with a focus on long-term reliability improvements, leveraging data-driven insights to define roadmaps, enhance operational maturity, and deliver measurable business outcomes through technology.

Our Package

Tailored benefits make a real difference. That’s why we offer a comprehensive range to support your growth, wellbeing, and everyday life.

You can design the package to suit you and your lifestyle. Your core benefits include:

• 10% on target annual bonus
• Access to an online private GP 24/7 for you and your immediate family
• Market-leading paid carers leave with up to 2 weeks off
• Equalized maternity, paternity, and adoption leave – 18 weeks’ full pay and 8 weeks’ half pay
• Discounted EE and BT products, including mobile and broadband
• Market leading Pension scheme – 5% from you and 10% from us
• Holiday purchase scheme

You can select additional benefits, including healthcare, dental, gym memberships and more when you’re ready.
Ready to connect for good and help shape the future? Apply now

BT Group is the UK’s leading communications group and the holding company behind some of the country’s most recognised brands – including BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet. Our purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: we connect for good.  Our customers include consumers, small, medium and large businesses, public sector organisations and other communications providers. 

BT Group’s role is about setting direction, unlocking value and creating the conditions for our brands and businesses to thrive.

Having come through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, our focus now is on what comes next – simplifying how we operate, using technology and AI to work smarter, and organising ourselves to serve customers better and grow sustainably. Group teams shape strategy, policy, brand, capital allocation and transformation, helping the whole organisation perform at its best.

We have a singular culture that unites all our people: we are customer-first challengers, who are committed, clear and connected. These behaviours unite us as one team to deliver for our colleagues, our customers, our stakeholders and the country.   Joining BT Group means working at the heart of a business that matters to the UK, with the opportunity to shape decisions, influence outcomes and help set the future course of one of the country’s most important companies.