Senior Production Engineer: Reliability & Automation Lead

clearstreet; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Clear Street in London is seeking a Production Engineer who owns the health and resilience of our production systems. You'll partner with engineering, operations, and business teams to translate daily pain points into automated solutions.

Half your time is spent supporting production and incidents; the other half building automation, tooling, and observability platforms to make on-call shifts easier and outages rarer.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on Python for automation and tooling.
• Experience in SRE/Production or Platform Engineering with production ownership.
• Proven automation and diagnostic tooling to reduce MTTR.

Responsibilities

• Design and build monitoring and observability platforms to surface signals and reduce alert fatigue.
• Develop automation and self-healing capabilities to accelerate recovery.
• Analyze incidents to identify systemic trends and prevent recurring failures.
• Create reusable runbooks and tooling to scale platform operations.
• Collaborate with Platform Engineering to influence CI/CD safety and resilience.
• Champion IaC and GitOps practices across the team.

Skills

Python

SRE/Production Eng

Automation tooling

Cloud-native tech

Kubernetes

Observability (Datadog)

Terraform

GitOps (ArgoCD, GA)

Distributed systems

Postgres/DBs

Communication

Problem solving

Tools

Datadog

Terraform

ArgoCD

GitHub Actions

Kafka

Postgres

Job description

Clear Street in London is seeking a Production Engineer who owns the health and resilience of our production systems. You'll partner with engineering, operations, and business teams to translate daily pain points into automated solutions.

Half your time is spent supporting production and incidents; the other half building automation, tooling, and observability platforms to make on-call shifts easier and outages rarer.