Senior Platform Engineer / SRE

Myn; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Myn in London is seeking an experienced Senior Platform Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer to help build and operate highly available, large-scale technology platforms. This hands-on role sits across cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, automation, observability and reliability.

You’ll work with software, platform and data teams to improve cloud infrastructure, design deployment automation, enhance observability and define reliability standards.

Qualifications

• Strong AWS and/or Google Cloud Platform experience.
• Kubernetes and containerised environments.
• Terraform / Infrastructure as Code.
• CI/CD and deployment automation.
• Observability, monitoring and distributed tracing.
• Production incident response and root-cause analysis.
• Cloud networking, IAM and security principles.
• Understanding of highly available and distributed systems.
• Strong automation mindset.
• Experience with OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Grafana, GitLab CI, Backstage, Python or Java would be advantageous.
• Knowledge of SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, automated remediation or chaos engineering would be particularly interesting.
• Experience on high-throughput or mission-critical platforms where reliability and performance impact customers.

Responsibilities

• You’ll work closely with software, platform and data engineering teams to improve cloud infrastructure and production reliability.
• Your work could include designing cloud infrastructure, building deployment automation, improving observability, defining reliability standards and helping engineering teams understand how their services behave in production.
• You’ll also contribute to incident investigation and use what is learned from production issues to engineer more resilient systems.

Skills

AWS

Google Cloud Platform

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Observability

Incident response

IAM

Security principles

Automation

OpenTelemetry

Datadog

Grafana

GitLab CI

Backstage

Python

Java

SLOs/SLIs

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Datadog

Grafana

GitLab CI

Backstage

Job description

London | Hybrid Myn is recruiting for a leading financial technology organisation in London and is looking for an experienced Platform Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer to help build and operate highly available, large-scale technology platforms.

Senior Platform Engineer / SRE

London | Hybrid Myn is recruiting for a leading financial technology organisation in London and is looking for an experienced Platform Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer to help build and operate highly available, large-scale technology platforms.

This is a hands-on engineering position sitting across cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, automation, observability and reliability.

Rather than traditional infrastructure support, the focus is on engineering platforms and tooling that make applications easier to deploy, operate and scale while improving reliability across production environments.

The role

You’ll work closely with software, platform and data engineering teams to improve cloud infrastructure and production reliability.

Your work could include designing cloud infrastructure, building deployment automation, improving observability, defining reliability standards and helping engineering teams understand how their services behave in production.

You’ll also contribute to incident investigation and use what is learned from production issues to engineer more resilient systems.

What we’re looking for

• Strong AWS and/or Google Cloud Platform experience
• Kubernetes and containerised environments
• Terraform / Infrastructure as Code
• CI/CD and deployment automation
• Observability, monitoring and distributed tracing
• Experience with production incident response and root-cause analysis
• Cloud networking, IAM and security principles
• Understanding of highly available and distributed systems
• Strong automation mindset

Experience with technologies such as OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Grafana, GitLab CI, Backstage, Python or Java would be advantageous.

Knowledge of SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, automated remediation or chaos engineering would be particularly interesting.

We're especially keen to hear from engineers who have worked on high-throughput or mission-critical platforms where reliability and performance have a direct impact on customers.

Location: London

Working pattern: Hybrid

If you enjoy solving complex platform and production engineering problems rather than simply maintaining infrastructure, we'd like to hear from you.