At a Glance
- Tasks: Drive application deployment readiness and ensure operational stability of critical payment platforms.
- Company: Join a leading team in Real Time Payments with a focus on innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible working hours, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic work environment with mentorship opportunities and career advancement.
- Why this job: Be part of a high-impact team making a difference in payment technology.
- Qualifications: Experience in site reliability engineering and strong problem-solving skills.
The predicted salary is between 45000 - 45000 £ per year.
The Real Time Payments International team is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to drive application deployment readiness, manage day-to-day operational stability and support the reliability of critical payment platforms by implementing automation, leveraging best practices and working with a high-impact team responsible for driving production readiness, reliability, and DevOps automation across platforms. This role plays a key part in incident management, change readiness, and platform operations, while contributing to continuous improvement initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Platform Operations & Stability
- Support end-to-end availability, monitoring, and performance of critical payment platforms.
- Execute operational processes to ensure platform health and stability.
- Participate in capacity checks, readiness validations, and environment monitoring.
- Incident Management & Execution
- Actively manage and coordinate incident triage and resolution.
- Serve as incident commander driving medium to high-severity incidents.
- Ensure timely updates, accurate impact assessment, and appropriate escalation.
- Contribute to root cause analysis with clear identification of actions and ownership.
- Change & Release Support
- Participate in highlighting gaps and defining test cases required for a change in lower environments and validate lower environment test completeness.
- Ensure adherence to change governance processes (test case reviews, checklists, approvals, rollback readiness).
- Engage in creating change plans and support execution of production changes, deployments, and validations.
- Technical Troubleshooting
- Perform hands-on troubleshooting across application behaviour and dependencies.
- Infrastructure components (compute, network, storage).
- Database and performance issues.
- Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure and other technical teams to isolate and resolve issues efficiently.
- Monitoring & Observability
- Improve system health monitoring using observability tools and alerts.
- Identify gaps in alerting and contribute to improving quality of alerting and dashboards.
- Ensure proactive detection of anomalies using observability tools.
- Automation & Process Improvement
- Contribute to automation initiatives to reduce toil and errors.
- Identify repetitive operational tasks and drive improvements.
- Support implementation of DevOps best practices.
- Leverage AI-driven tools to improve monitoring, incident detection, and operational efficiency, enabling faster troubleshooting and reduced manual effort in day-to-day operations.
- Stakeholder Coordination
- Work closely with engineering, program teams, and external partners during incidents and changes.
- Provide structured updates to stakeholders with clarity and consistency.
- Ensure alignment during critical activities.
- Risk Identification
- Highlight operational and platform risks including test coverage gaps, infrastructure constraints, dependency risks.
- Escalate issues proactively and support mitigation tracking.
- Team Contribution & Mentorship
- Support onboarding and guidance of junior team members.
- Contribute to runbooks, documentation, and knowledge sharing.
- Drive consistency in execution and adherence to operational standards.
Application Support SRE in London employer: KBC Technologies Group
Join a dynamic and innovative team at the forefront of Real Time Payments, where your role as an Application Support SRE will not only enhance your technical skills but also provide you with ample opportunities for professional growth. Our collaborative work culture fosters continuous improvement and values each team member's contributions, ensuring that you are supported in your career journey while working on critical payment platforms that impact users globally. With a focus on automation and best practices, you'll be part of a high-impact environment that prioritises operational stability and reliability, making it an exciting place to advance your career.
