Lead Site Reliability Engineer SRE Java - FinTech

ZipRecruiter; London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A global CFD trading company seeks a Lead Site Reliability Engineer with a Java background to enhance SRE operations and lead a team. Offering a competitive salary up to £130k, the role emphasizes collaboration, cloud technologies, and technical leadership in a hybrid working environment.

Benefits

Pension

Private Medical Care

Life Assurance

Option to buy or sell holiday days

Wellness benefits

Gym subsidy

Childcare vouchers

Enhanced paternity leave

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering and scalable solution building.
• Experience leading medium to large teams (8+ engineers).
• Understanding of architecture for highly available and performant systems.

Responsibilities

• Focus on improving SRE operations and establishing SLOs.
• Provide technical leadership to a small team of experienced SRE Engineers.
• Liaise with business stakeholders to establish the product roadmap.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

Java

Communication

Collaboration

Stakeholder Management

Agile Methodologies

Education

Degree in Computer Science

Job description

Job Description

Lead Site Reliability Engineer / SRE (Java) London / WFH to £130k

Are you a Site Reliability Engineering technologist with a Java software engineering background seeking a role where you can make the technology choices, influence strategy and remain hands-on?

You could be progressing your career in an impactful role at a global CFD trading company that has been consistently voted as one of the UKs top employers.

As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer you will focus on improving and raising the bar for SRE operations across the firm. You establish SLOs, leveraging public cloud, containerisation, reliability testing and observability, liaising with business stakeholders to establish the product roadmap and providing technical leadership to a small team of experienced SRE Engineers.

Location / WFH:

There's a hybrid model with two days a week work from home, when you are in the office you'll be based in the City with an upbeat team environment, casual dress code and a range of facilities including roof terrace, canteen and break out areas.

About you:

• You are a Site Reliability Engineer SRE (or similar) with a Java software engineering background
• You have a strong knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering and how to build scalable solutions to improve reliability, productivity and efficiency - able to set the technical direction
• You have experience of leading medium and large teams (8+ engineers)
• You have a strong understanding of the architecture required for highly available and performant systems
• You have experience of working on complex microservices environments with thousands of microservices
• You have excellent communication, collaboration and stakeholder management skills
• You have experience of working in financial or product based environments
• You have a good knowledge of Agile systems development methodologies
• You are degree educated in Computer Science or similar technical discipline

What's in it for you:

As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer you will earn a competitive package:

• Salary to £130k + Bonus
• Pension, Private Medical Care, Life Assurance
• Option to buy or sell holiday days
• Wellness benefits and gym subsidy
• Childcare vouchers
• Enhanced paternity leave including shared parental pay and leave
• Employee led +, Women's, Black and Parents & Carers networks with an annual budget for organising events and projects that foster an open, diverse and inclusive culture
• Plus a range of other perks

Apply now to find out more about this Lead Site Reliability Engineer (Java) opportunity.

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