Site Reliability Engineer (London Area)

London Full-Time 48000 - 72000 £ / year (est.) No home office possible

Overview

This role is critical to the success of the digital services strategy, cloud infrastructure, and overall data platform. Sitting within the broader Digital Client technology team, this hire will focus on improving release and support processes, and enhancing infrastructure performance, supportability, scalability, and cost efficiency.

This person will also serve as the key contact for escalations, major incidents, and release support during European business hours.

Key Responsibilities

Act as L3 escalation contact for critical production issues and major incidents
Lead or support release cycles and ensure production readiness
Collaborate with stakeholders, including Front Office and executive teams
Drive remediation of audit findings and ensure alignment with enterprise security standards
Ensure operational readiness of digital products (resiliency, observability, etc.)
Collaborate with quality engineering to meet non-functional requirements
Maintain compliance with enterprise tech strategy and protection mandates

Skills & Experience

Strong experience in Microsoft Azure
Experience developing automation and orchestration using Azure Python SDK, Terraform, and GitHub Runners
Expertise in automating serverless PaaS solutions (Azure App Services, Databricks, Cosmos DB, SQL, Data Lake, HDInsight)
Proficient in writing Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates and Terraform scripts
Understanding of cloud security (RBAC, audit logging, authentication)
Experience troubleshooting network and application access to Azure resources (NSGs, routing)
Familiar with deploying databases and infrastructure via CI/CD pipelines
Knowledge of Azure RBAC, Active Directory, and Ping integration
Solid grasp of cloud provisioning, disaster recovery, performance monitoring, and business continuity