Senior Site Reliability Engineer. Investment Management. £120,000 - £130,000 + 15% Guaranteed B[...]

My client is a top-tier investment management house based in St Pauls.

The Technology Engineering team is looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to join them as they are reimagining production application and infrastructure management. The team is responsible for engineering scalable and resilient hybrid cloud solutions (both AWS and On-prem). You will be responsible for creating tooling and software that monitors and improves the reliability of our systems. In this role, you will research problems, evaluate modern technologies, create prototypes, develop integrated processes, automation, define standards observability tooling, and provide SRE consulting on complex projects.

Requires specialized in-depth knowledge and expertise in your own job discipline, Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform and/or other cloud-based platforms and deep experience in integrating related disciplinary knowledge. Works independently, receives minimal guidance. Accountable for work of yourself and others; sets standards around which others will operate. Proactively identifies problems and can present and implement solutions to these problems.

• Design and implement highly automated systems/services that ensure the availability, reliability, and scalability of infrastructure and applications.
• Build and maintain monitoring and alerting to provide timely feedback on the performance and health of systems, network, and applications.
• Design and implement automation tools to reduce manual toil, streamline repetitive tasks, and enhance overall operational efficiency.
• Design and build Service Level Indicator (SLIs) metrics, including but not limited to Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Error Budget, Burn Rate Alerts.
• Work closely with development teams to embed reliability best practices into the software development process.
• Provide mentorship and training to cross-functional teams on SRE principles, encouraging a shared responsibility for the reliability of services.
• Collaborate with support, operations, and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex problems.
• Observe and monitor systems to ensure insight into system performance, health, availability, and internal system happenings.
• Understand what to monitor based on the system(s) you are managing, how the monitoring data is stored, and how to analyze the data for future actions.
• Participate in continuous improvement efforts that span multiple multi-functional domains and inform the generation of new standards.
• Be a part of an on-call rotation, continuously enhance automation & documentation, and mentor others on the standard methodologies of infrastructure automation to encourage adoption.
• Able to overcome differences of opinion and drive team alignment around a specific goal or solution.
• Holds associates and teams accountable for adhering to practices and policies.

• Demonstrates deep knowledge of products/flows within supported businesses.
• Decomposes the most complex problems into discrete work units.
• Identifies non-obvious relationships and anomalies often overlooked by others.
• Balances strategic and pragmatic concerns when solving problems.
• Makes sound decisions with limited facts or resources.
• Makes decisions that are cognizant of the firm’s broader business strategy.
• Articulates broader business concerns and/or regulatory landscape, including key risks and controls (e.g., GDPR, MIFID, SOX).

• Strong experience with Monitoring and Alerting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic.
• Experience in container orchestration solutions in AWS with ECS, Fargate.
• Skilled in building and maintaining dashboards using tools like Grafana, Prometheus, and Statsd to provide critical insights.
• Worked with Service Reliability Engineering team to design SLI and SLO for respective applications.
• Strong experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and container orchestration operating in a GitOps framework.
• A solid core foundation in infrastructure and systems engineering including Unix/Linux compute, networking, storage, and monitoring stacks.
• Experience using automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills, adaptable and able to learn quickly.
• Off-hour implementations are required.
• Ability to build positive working relationships with business contacts, within our IT team, and other IT departments.
• Ability to identify tasks and help develop project plans for medium and large-scale projects.

If you are interested, please send your CV for immediate consideration.