AI-Driven Cloud SRE - Manchester (Hybrid)

Fitch Ratings; Manchester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Training & mentoring programs

Retirement planning

Healthcare benefits

Parental leave

Job summary

Fitch Group is seeking a Service Reliability Engineer to embed with Fitch Ratings development squads. The role is based out of Manchester, focusing on cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and AI-enabled operations to ensure reliability and performance of critical services.

You will mentor engineers, lead deployment patterns, and partner with Security and Risk to implement guardrails while advancing platform initiatives across CI&PE. A strong cross-functional collaboration ethos is required.

Qualifications

• Hands-on SRE/DevOps/Platform Engineering experience in AWS and Azure.
• Proficient with Docker and Kubernetes in production.
• Experience with GitHub Actions CI/CD and security gates.
• Experience supporting IIS/.NET and Java Spring Boot services.
• Scripting in Python, PowerShell or Bash.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of reliable, scalable, mission-critical services and guide squads on deployment patterns.
• Mentor engineers and set best practices to grow knowledge.
• Collaborate to design and advance service builds, DevOps tooling, and operational excellence.
• Own observability with Datadog: define SLIs/SLOs, dashboards, alerts, and automation.
• Champion AI-enabled operations using AWS Bedrock/SageMaker and MCP for analysis and orchestration.

Skills

Kubernetes

Docker

GitHub Actions

AWS

Azure

Linux/Windows

CI/CD

Python/PowerShell/Bash

Tools

Datadog

CI/CD tooling

Terraform/CloudFormation

Job description

Fitch Group is seeking a Service Reliability Engineer to embed with Fitch Ratings development squads. The role is based out of Manchester, focusing on cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and AI-enabled operations to ensure reliability and performance of critical services.

You will mentor engineers, lead deployment patterns, and partner with Security and Risk to implement guardrails while advancing platform initiatives across CI&PE. A strong cross-functional collaboration ethos is required.