Senior SRE: Cloud Platform Reliability & Automation

Selby Jennings; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Selby Jennings is hired by a world-renowned hedge fund to recruit an ambitious SRE who will drive reliability, scalability, and performance of a core platform. You will own projects from inception to production, with autonomy and a strong focus on IaC, automation, and observability.

The role balances critical operational support with new infrastructure initiatives, emphasizing proactive problem solving and strong engineering ownership within a high-velocity environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or comparable cloud infrastructure.
• Expert-level proficiency in managing production Kubernetes environments.
• Deep expertise in Terraform for cloud and Kubernetes resources.
• Strong experience with Helm for packaging and deploying applications on Kubernetes.
• Proficiency in Python (and Bash) for automation and tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable infrastructure on GCP using Kubernetes.
• Champion automation across the SDLC with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices.
• Own and evolve declarative infrastructure with Terraform and Helm.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and logging for clear system visibility.
• Define and enforce SLOs/SLIs; participate in on-call rotation and post-incident reviews.

Skills

GCP experience

Kubernetes

Python

Bash

CI/CD

Observability

Linux

Networking

SRE

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Kubernetes

GCP

Job description

Selby Jennings is hired by a world-renowned hedge fund to recruit an ambitious SRE who will drive reliability, scalability, and performance of a core platform. You will own projects from inception to production, with autonomy and a strong focus on IaC, automation, and observability.

The role balances critical operational support with new infrastructure initiatives, emphasizing proactive problem solving and strong engineering ownership within a high-velocity environment.