Senior SRE: API & App Reliability Lead

Xpertise Recruitment; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25% Bonus

Excellent Benefits

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer specializing in application and API reliability. This hybrid role involves working closely with product and engineering teams to enhance the reliability of customer-facing platforms. Candidates should have a strong background in digital product environments and expertise in API architectures, microservices, and observability tools. Excellent salary and benefits package offered.

Qualifications

• Proven experience operating as an SRE within digital product environments.
• Strong understanding of API architectures and microservices.
• Hands-on experience defining SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.

Responsibilities

• Embed SRE practices across API and microservices-based architectures.
• Define and own meaningful SLIs/SLOs aligned to customer journeys.
• Improve service reliability through proactive observability and alert tuning.

Skills

API architectures

Microservices

Distributed systems behaviour

Observability tools (Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus)

Incident response

Kubernetes

Tools

Datadog

Splunk

Prometheus

Job description

A leading recruitment firm is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer specializing in application and API reliability. This hybrid role involves working closely with product and engineering teams to enhance the reliability of customer-facing platforms. Candidates should have a strong background in digital product environments and expertise in API architectures, microservices, and observability tools. Excellent salary and benefits package offered.