Nottingham Trent House (95002), United Kingdom, Nottingham, NottinghamshireSenior Software Development Engineer - SRE Job Title: Senior Software Development Engineer - SRE Location: Nottingham - Hybrid Working Pattern: 3 days in-office (Tuesday-Thursday) and 2 days remote. Our Mission We’re on a mission to be a force for good in lending. Throughout our almost 30-year history, we’ve consistently been recognised as a great place to work; in 2026, Capital One was officially ranked 9th in the UK’s Best Workplaces™ list. Hear from our team about what it’s like working at Capital One UK. About the Role We are looking for a Senior Engineer to join our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team. This role is ideal for a skilled Java engineer with a passion for understanding how complex systems work, analysing performance, and applying engineering solutions to make them more efficient, stable, and scalable. You'll lead on planning and implementing key SRE initiatives, optimise and automate how our systems operate, and improve observability through better monitoring and logging. You'll also work closely with your peers to drive consistency and high standards across SRE and the wider engineering community, so a real enthusiasm for influencing others and leading by example is essential. What you’ll do You will technically lead a group of engineers responsible for maintaining and improving our back-end services for our most critical customer and/or data applications within the cloud. Contribute to the major optimisation and improvement themes within the team. Identifying opportunities to reduce operational overheads through observability and service automation. Drive engineering best practice (e.g., Operational Excellence, Security, Quality, Resilience etc.) and set standards across the team and wider SRE community. Innovate within your team and contribute within your technical domain. Deliver key pieces of intent from inception through to design and hands-on delivery, in collaboration with your Site Reliability Engineering Manager. The skills and experience you need Production-grade experience of developing and managing APIs using Java
Senior Software Development Engineer - SRE Capital One · Nottingham · SiteReliability Pay not stated 2w ago employer: Devopsroles
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