Civica US
Civica US
51 – 200 Employees
ConsultingHealthcareLogistics
Civica US develops public sector software used by more than 5,000 public bodies worldwide to support services for over 100 million citizens. Its GovTech solutions serve government departments, justice and court systems, education institutions, and health and care providers. The company’s work spans cloud and digital services, data analytics, financial management, people management, and governance, risk, and compliance. For candidates exploring public sector technology careers, Civica US offers a view into software projects focused on administrative efficiency, data-informed decision-making, service delivery, and citizen engagement.

SRE Engineering Manager | Civica US | United Kingdom Remote

Lead site reliability engineering for Civica’s cloud-native public-sector software, focusing on observability, resilience, and incident response. Manage engineers while strengthening secure, scalable SaaS operations.

Description

  • Develop and continuously improve SRE practices across the engineering team
  • Drive measurable gains in availability, performance, and incident response
  • Work with Platform and LiveOps teams to build and operate secure, efficient, scalable systems
  • Implement metrics, tracing, and logging across services using observability platforms
  • Maintain on-call readiness and facilitate blameless post-incident reviews
  • Apply incident-response insights to engineering and product planning
  • Advance infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD practices with Terraform, GitHub Actions, Ansible, Packer, and Kubernetes
  • Define and refine SLOs, on-call models, toil-reduction initiatives, and production-readiness standards
  • Evaluate architecture proposals and develop reliability-focused prototypes
  • Investigate complex production incidents and balance delivery speed, resilience, and cost
  • Surface systemic reliability concerns and prioritise technical-debt reduction
  • Coach engineers while promoting psychological safety, curiosity, and accountability
  • Partner with Security and Compliance to incorporate SOC 2, ISO 27001, and PCI requirements

Requirements

  • Demonstrated success leading SRE, DevOps, cloud engineering, or software engineering teams, typically of five or more engineers, in a SaaS or complex multi-product environment
  • Strong grounding in cloud architecture across AWS, Azure, GCP, or equivalent platforms, including hybrid-cloud and migration patterns
  • Able to read and assess application and infrastructure code
  • Hands-on ability to write automation, troubleshoot distributed systems, and make informed architecture decisions
  • Solid experience with observability tools and incident-management practices, including monitoring, tracing, and alerting
  • Experienced in using observability data to diagnose real-world production issues
  • Excellent communication and facilitation skills when working with Product, Platform, Security, Support, and LiveOps stakeholders
  • Strong mentoring capabilities
  • Commitment to reliability and user experience as core engineering values
  • Experience with large-scale, multi-tenant SaaS platforms or hybrid-cloud migrations is advantageous
  • Familiarity with ITIL or incident-command frameworks adapted to modern SRE practices is advantageous
  • Working knowledge of Grafana, Datadog, ELK, and Prometheus is advantageous
  • Experience collaborating with globally distributed teams is advantageous
  • Software-development experience and strong understanding of the software lifecycle are advantageous

Benefits

  • 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
  • Option to purchase up to 10 additional days
  • Days of Difference: up to 3 extra days off for volunteering
  • 5% employer pension contribution match
  • Income protection covering up to 75% of salary during long-term illness
  • Life assurance providing a tax-free lump sum of four times salary
  • Critical illness cover with a £25,000 lump sum, extendable to dependents
  • Private medical insurance
  • Health cash plan covering physiotherapy, therapies, and more
  • Dental insurance
  • Employee-led affinity groups and communities
  • Bounty bonus for successful employee referrals
  • Inclusive and diverse workplace
  • Equal opportunity employer
  • Recruitment adjustments and accommodations available

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