Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Java Focussed

The Client

Tempest Vane Partners is supporting a high-growth, institution-backed fintech scale-up at the forefront of digital asset infrastructure. With global offices and a mission to bring regulated solutions to institutional finance, this firm is redefining how digital assets are secured and managed.

As part of their expansion, they’re looking to find a hands-on Site Reliability Engineer to join their mission-critical engineering team.

The Role:

Our client is building a next-generation digital assets platform using Java Spring microservices on Azure, and they need a systems-focused engineer to own reliability, scalability, and observability at the core of their infrastructure.

What You’ll Get

• A superb opportunity to join an institutionally backed, cutting-edge Crypto Fintech at the beginning of their journey.
• An opportunity to work closely with the leadership team, contributing to and influencing decision making.
• Opportunities for learning and development, reflecting the importance of lifelong learning.
• Ability to work cross-functionally across the company on major initiatives and be at the forefront of innovative design and development.
• Market-leading salary and annual discretionary bonus.
• Pension contributions, in addition to Health Insurance, Life Assurance.
• 25 Annual Leave.

What You’ll Be Doing

• It's not just DevOps — it's true SRE: SLAs, SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and incident tooling are at the centre of the role.
• Own and evolve observability frameworks, define resilience strategies, and contribute directly to the Java backend codebase.
• Join a team shaping institutional crypto infrastructure, with full cloud-native architecture (AKS, Application Insights, Terraform).
• You’ll be the bridge between software engineering and operations, directly influencing architectural decisions.

What You’ll Bring

• 8+ years in production engineering or SRE roles.
• Deep Java/Spring experience.
• Expertise in monitoring, alerting, and incident tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK, etc.).
• Experience with Azure, Kubernetes, and scalable systems in high-uptime environments (fintech/crypto preferred).

If you're a seasoned engineer who loves clean code, deep systems insight, and production excellence, this is your next challenge.