Site Reliability Engineering Manager
Hybrid
London, United Kingdom
Full Time
07-03-2025
Job Specifications
Role: Site Reliability Engineering Manager (Website Infrastructure & Operations Manager)
Location: London / Hybrid - 2 days per week in the office
Reporting to: Head of Technology Operations
The Platform and Reliability Engineering Team are responsible for the technology platforms and services that underpin the Rightmove website, ensuring it is available, secure and performing to a world-class standard. We strive to deliver annual availability of at least 99.99% (less than 5 mins downtime a month).
The Site Reliability Engineering Manager’s focus is to ensure their teams maintain our datacentre and cloud website infrastructure, safely migrate services to Google Cloud, and enable others to easily manage the reliability of production services across the Rightmove Website Estate.
A typical week as the Site Reliability Engineering Manager might involve:
Ensuring the right people, process and tooling are in place to maintain a healthy, resilient, and secure datacentre and cloud website platform.
Creating and managing technical plans for the migration of applications and infrastructure to Google Cloud.
Developing cloud engineering and operations skills within your teams
Working through supplier due diligence process for support contract renewals to ensure key components are kept in support.
Working with engineering managers, product owners, and engineers to optimise and improve service health
Identify, plan and implement improvements to the incident management process
Reducing handoffs or improving flow/lead times within development teams by providing operational/infrastructure support for the platform.
We’re looking for someone who:
Has previous experience managing engineers that are building and running website infrastructure and web services and previous experience running website technical operations.
Is highly operationally aware, understanding what it takes to maintain a healthy website infrastructure and services.
Is an experienced manager who understands how to get the best out of their people and teams.
Has excellent judgement and can instill this in engineers, leading them to the best outcomes on technical decisions and architecture whilst enabling their development.
Is happy to dive deep into technical discussions with their team and can surface risks and issues relating to projects.
Is able to keep calm and work effectively in high pressure situations
Has experience migrating infrastructure and web services from datacentres to cloud
Has deep experience and understanding of DevOps and SRE principles and practices
Always pushes for continuous improvement and has strong attention to detail
Relevant Technology we use:
F5, Juniper, Arbor
VMware, HP 3Par
Google Cloud Platform
Google Kubernetes Engine with Anthos Service Mesh
Confluent Cloud
Incident.io
Gitlab
Jira, Confluence, Slack, Teams
Elastic APM, Kibana
Eggplant Monitoring, Xymon
Java, Node, Python, Javascript, Go
About Rightmove
Our vision is to give everyone the belief they can make their move. We aim to make moving simpler, by giving everyone the best place to turn to and return to for access to the tools, expertise, trust and belief to make it happen.
We're home to the UK's largest choice of properties, and are the go-to destination for millions of people planning their next move, reading the latest industry news, or just browsing what's on the market.
Despite this growth, we’ve remained a friendly, supportive place to work, with employee #1 still working here! We’ve done this by placing the Rightmove Hows at the heart of everything we do. These are the essential values that reflect our culture, and include:
Be approachable and appreciate what others do
Make complex things as simple as possible
Build great teams, because Rightmove is people
Drive improvement, we can always be better
Share early, honestly and often
We believe in careers that open doors, and help our team develop by providing an open and inclusive work environment, offering ongoing training opportunities, and supporting charity fundraising events. And with 88% of Rightmovers saying we’re a great place to work, we’re clearly doing something right!
If all this has caught your eye, you may well be a Rightmover in the making...
What we offer
People are the foundation of Rightmove - We’ll help you build a career on it.
Cash plan for dental, optical and physio treatments
Private Medical Insurance, Pension and Life Insurance, Employee Assistance Plan
27 days holiday plus two (paid) volunteering days a year to give back, and holiday buy schemes
Hybrid working pattern with 2 days in office
Contributory stakeholder pension
Life assurance at 4x your basic salary to a spouse, family member or other nominated person in your life
Competitive compensation package
Paid leave for maternity, paternity, adoption & fertility
Travel Loans, Bike to Work scheme, Rental Deposit Loan
Charitable contributions through Payroll Giving and donation matching
Access deals and discounts on things like travel, electronics, fashion, gym memberships, cinema discounts and more
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Rightmove will never discriminate on the basis of age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, or sexual orientation. At Rightmove, we believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce leads to better innovation, productivity, and overall success. We are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for all employees, regardless of their background or identity, to develop and promote a diverse culture that reflects the communities we serve.
Ultimately, we care much more about the person you are and how you think and approach things, than a list of qualifications and buzzwords on a CV. Even if you can’t say ‘yes’ to all the above, but are smart, self-motivated and passionate, then get in touch.
About the Company
Since launching in March 2000, we have remained the market leader and the go to place for people looking for their next home to buy or place to rent. To make all those home hunters happy we’ve invested in our tech and our website, we’re constantly looking to try new things with an aim to help make home moving easier. Home movers across the UK spend more than a billion minutes on Rightmove each month. Our website and apps receive over 150M views per month, making us one of the most top visited sites in the UK! Helping our ... Know more
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