Senior SRE: Cloud-Native, High-Impact Payments Platform

Moneycorp; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to lead the transformation of legacy systems into modern cloud-native architectures. You will work with cutting-edge technologies and ensure operational resilience across high-performing services. Ideal candidates should have 7+ years of SRE experience, strong Azure proficiency, and a solid understanding of incident management and compliance. Opportunities for innovation and growth are abundant in this dynamic role.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Flexible working hours

Professional development opportunities

Inclusive culture

Qualifications

• 7+ years in SRE, platform, or systems roles with production ownership.
• Deep experience with Azure services.
• Strong background in architecture governance and design reviews.
• Proven use of Terraform for modular infrastructure design.
• Experience with Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain SLOs/SLIs and error budgets.
• Implement anomaly detection and predictive monitoring.
• Automate backup, restore, and failover processes.
• Lead SEV-1/SEV-2 incidents and drive root cause analysis.
• Conduct scenario-based resilience testing.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

Cloud Platforms (Azure)

Secure-by-Design

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

CI/CD Pipelines

Observability & Monitoring

Incident Management

Disaster Recovery & Resilience Testing

IaaS & OS Engineering

Payments & FX Platforms

Operational Resilience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline

Tools

Terraform

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Prometheus

Grafana

Kafka

OpenTelemetry

Job description

A leading financial services provider in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to lead the transformation of legacy systems into modern cloud-native architectures. You will work with cutting-edge technologies and ensure operational resilience across high-performing services. Ideal candidates should have 7+ years of SRE experience, strong Azure proficiency, and a solid understanding of incident management and compliance. Opportunities for innovation and growth are abundant in this dynamic role.