Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Knutsford or Glasgow – Hybrid (2 days per week onsite)

Role Category: Permanent

Overview

We’re recruiting for an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to drive reliability, scalability and performance across critical banking systems. This role combines hands-on SRE engineering with technical leadership, with a strong focus on observability, automation, continuous improvement and optimisation.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain reliable, scalable and secure infrastructure platforms and solutions.




• Apply SRE and software engineering practices to improve reliability, availability and performance.




• Monitor systems, manage incidents and lead complex troubleshooting and root cause analysis.




• Develop automation using programming and scripting to reduce manual intervention and improve efficiency.




• Develop and improve observability, monitoring, instrumentation and performance capabilities.




• Use data and reliability metrics to drive continuous improvement and optimisation.




• Lead technical discussions, blameless retrospectives and problem-solving activities.




• Work with architects, engineers and stakeholders to define requirements and deliver effective solutions.




• Provide technical leadership, mentoring and guidance while helping to drive SRE maturity across teams.

Required Skills

• 5+ years’ experience in SRE, Production Engineering, Platform Engineering or a related discipline.




• Strong practical experience with SRE principles and production environments.




• Strong programming/scripting skills, such as Python, Go, Java, C# or Bash.




• Proven experience in incident management, troubleshooting and root cause analysis.




• Strong observability and monitoring experience.




• Experience with AWS, Azure or GCP.




• Good understanding of operating systems, networking, cloud infrastructure and automation.




• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code.




• Strong communication and technical leadership skills.

Desirable Skills

• SLOs, SLIs, SLAs and error budgets.




• Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic/ELK or OpenTelemetry.




• Kubernetes, containers and distributed systems.




• Performance and resilience engineering.




• Experience driving SRE maturity across engineering teams.




• Financial services or banking experience.

This is an excellent opportunity for a Senior SRE to combine hands-on engineering with technical leadership and help improve reliability, observability and performance across critical banking systems.

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