Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Java Focussed

Tempest Vane Partners; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A cutting-edge fintech, backed by institutions, is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join their expanding team in London. This role focuses on ensuring the reliability, scalability, and observability of their digital assets platform, leveraging Java Spring microservices and cloud-native architecture. Competitive salary and development opportunities are offered.

Benefits

Annual discretionary bonus

Health Insurance

Pension contributions

Opportunities for learning and development

Market-leading salary

Qualifications

• 8+ years in production engineering or SRE roles.
• Experience with Azure and Kubernetes in high-uptime environments.
• Expertise in monitoring and incident tooling.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve observability frameworks and define resilience strategies.
• Influence architectural decisions as a bridge between software engineering and operations.
• Contribute directly to the Java backend codebase.

Skills

Monitoring

Incident Tooling

Cloud Services

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Azure

Kubernetes

Job description

Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Java Focussed

Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Java Focussed

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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-generation 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.

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-native 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.
• 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 preferred).

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

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology, Engineering, and Finance

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