Senior SRE Engineer – Data Platforms & RIDP

London Stock Exchange; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

London Stock Exchange is seeking a Senior Engineer – Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to join the Risk Intelligence Data Platforms (RIDP) Product Line. The role is based in Nottingham, UK, and focuses on reliability for data platforms supporting the EMEA region, with 24×7 on-call responsibilities and close collaboration with product and engineering teams.

You will drive reliability strategies, automation, and continuous improvement, maintaining SLOs/SLIs, and ensuring secure-by-design delivery

Qualifications

• 3+ years in production operations, SRE, or DevOps roles.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Familiarity with observability platforms (Datadog, OpenTelemetry).
• Strong understanding of SRE principles (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, incident response).
• Hands-on experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Calm and structured under pressure.
• Strategic thinker with a bias for action and accountability.
• Committed to continuous learning and knowledge sharing.

Responsibilities

• Support 24×7 reliability operations for RIDP services, ensuring uptime and performance.
• Maintain SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets; produce reliability scorecards.
• Lead incident management, execution of post-incident reviews, and problem analysis.
• Drive automation-first initiatives across incident response, deployment, compliance, and observability.
• Collaborate with product and engineering to embed non-functional requirements into delivery pipelines.
• Maintain documentation, including policies, diagrams, and post-incident reports.
• Provide on-call coverage in a team rotation and coordinate with global teams.

Skills

SRE

Cloud operations

Incident management

Automation

Observability

Stakeholder management

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

OpenTelemetry

Datadog

AWS

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS Lambda

ECS

ALB

RDS

CloudWatch Insights

Job description

London Stock Exchange is seeking a Senior Engineer – Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to join the Risk Intelligence Data Platforms (RIDP) Product Line. The role is based in Nottingham, UK, and focuses on reliability for data platforms supporting the EMEA region, with 24×7 on-call responsibilities and close collaboration with product and engineering teams.

You will drive reliability strategies, automation, and continuous improvement, maintaining SLOs/SLIs, and ensuring secure-by-design delivery