Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Java Focussed

ZipRecruiter; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech scale-up is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to enhance their digital assets platform. Join a mission-critical engineering team focused on reliability and observability, working closely with leadership to shape innovative infrastructure solutions.

Benefits

Market-leading salary and annual discretionary bonus

Pension contributions

Health Insurance

Life Assurance

25 Annual Leave

Opportunities for learning and development

Qualifications

• 8+ years in production engineering or SRE roles.
• Deep Java/Spring experience.
• Expertise in monitoring and incident tooling.
• Experience with Azure and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve observability frameworks.
• Define resilience strategies for the infrastructure.
• Bridge software engineering and operations.

Skills

Java

Spring

Monitoring

Alerting

Incident tooling

Kubernetes

Scalable systems

Job description

Job Description

The Client

Tempest Vane Partners is supporting a high-growth, institution-backed fintech scale-up at the forefront of digital asset infrastructure. With global offices and a mission to bring regulated solutions to institutional finance, this firm is redefining how digital assets are secured and managed.

As part of their expansion, they’re looking to find a hands-on Site Reliability Engineer to join their mission-critical engineering team.

The Role:

Our client is building a next- digital assets platform using Java Spring microservices on Azure, and they need a systems-focused engineer to own reliability, scalability, and observability at the core of their infrastructure.

What You’ll Get

• A superb opportunity to join an institutionally backed, cutting-edge Crypto Fintech at the beginning of their journey.
• An opportunity to work closely with the leadership team, contributing to and influencing decision making.
• Opportunities for learning and development, reflecting the importance of lifelong learning.
• Ability to work cross-functionally across the company on major initiatives and be at the forefront of innovative design and development.
• Market-leading salary and annual discretionary bonus.
• Pension contributions, in addition to Health Insurance, Life Assurance.
• 25 Annual Leave.

What You’ll Be Doing

• It's not just DevOps — it's true SRE: SLAs, SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and incident tooling are at the centre of the role.
• Own and evolve observability frameworks, define resilience strategies, and contribute directly to the Java backend codebase.
• Join a team shaping institutional crypto infrastructure, with full cloud- architecture (AKS, Application Insights, Terraform).
• You’ll be the bridge between software engineering and operations, directly influencing architectural decisions.

What You’ll Bring

• 8+ years in production engineering or SRE roles.
• Deep Java/Spring experience.
• Expertise in monitoring, alerting, and incident tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK, etc.).
• Experience with Azure, Kubernetes, and scalable systems in high-uptime environments (fintech/crypto ).

If you're a seasoned engineer who loves clean code, deep systems insight, and production excellence, this is your next challenge.