Software Engineer Lead - Site Reliability

Phoenix Group
London, Edinburgh
Workplace: HybridFull timeGBP 60,000 - 80,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Proactive","Self-starting","Technical leadership","Problem-solving","Coaching"]

Lead the engineering reliability of a customer-facing digital platform by strengthening DevOps foundations across Azure API platform integration, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD automation, observability, and deployment safety. Partner with internal squads, architects, security teams, and external providers to improve monitoring, alerting, incident learning, resilience testing, and operational readiness. Apply SRE and practical reliability engineering principles to reduce failure points and enable safer, faster release flows, including AI-enabled SDLC improvements.

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Phoenix Group
Phoenix Group
1 week ago

Software Engineer Lead - Site Reliability

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Job Summary

Lead the engineering reliability of a customer-facing digital platform by strengthening DevOps foundations across Azure API platform integration, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD automation, observability, and deployment safety. Partner with internal squads, architects, security teams, and external providers to improve monitoring, alerting, incident learning, resilience testing, and operational readiness. Apply SRE and practical reliability engineering principles to reduce failure points and enable safer, faster release flows, including AI-enabled SDLC improvements.
Location: London, Edinburgh
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Deliver immediate DevOps improvements across the customer digital platform with practical engineering outcomes.
  • •Improve Azure API platform integration, cloud infrastructure, environment support, and route-to-live activity.
  • •Strengthen CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, GitHub/GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Terraform, and automated testing.
  • •Improve deployment safety, release readiness, operational readiness, and apply SRE principles to availability and recoverability.
  • •Support major incidents and post-incident reviews, ensuring owned improvement actions and using operational metrics to identify risks and progress.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: GBP 60,000 - 80,000 annually
Perks:Health InsurancePensionPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Significant experience as a DevOps Lead, Senior DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, or hands-on technical lead.
  • •Strong practical Azure experience, including Azure DevOps and Azure API Management (or comparable API platform capabilities).
  • •Hands-on expertise in Terraform, GitHub/GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipeline design, deployment automation, and release support.
  • •Practical knowledge of incident management, problem management, root-cause analysis, and operational readiness.
  • •Experience improving observability and resilience (monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, failover, graceful degradation, and recovery testing).
Experience:CloudDevOpsSite reliability engineeringSREPlatform engineeringDigital services
Skills:ProactiveSelf-startingTechnical leadershipProblem-solvingCoaching
Tech Stack:AzureAzure API ManagementAzure DevOpsAzure API platform integrationCI/CDTerraformGitHubGitHub ActionsCI/CD pipelinesObservabilityMonitoringLoggingTracingAlertingService-health dashboardsDORAProgressive deliveryInfrastructure as code

Company Brief

Phoenix Group
A UK long-term savings and retirement business operating brands including Standard Life, SunLife, Phoenix Life and ReAssure, managing pensions, annuities and wealth solutions with c.12 million customers and large assets under administration.
Industry: Wealth Management
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 1782
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