Senior SRE - Hybrid (Manchester) Driving Reliability

Finova; Salford; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working (3 days in office)

Private medical insurance

Life assurance & income protection

Family friendly policies

Work from anywhere up to 4 weeks/year

25 days holiday + public holidays

Company pension scheme

Employee assistance programme

Electric car salary sacrifice

Health cash plan

Gym discounts

Job summary

Finova, the UK’s leading lending technology provider, seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer in Manchester. You will join a reliability-focused function, owning observability and automated recovery across a financial platform that handles billions in loans and savings.

You’ll collaborate with platform engineering and infrastructure while shaping SLOs and incident response. You’ll bring deep experience in C#/.NET, cloud platforms (Azure/AWS, with GCP exposure), and OpenTelemetry.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering and tooling track record.
• Strong proficiency in C#/.NET and scripting (PowerShell, Python or Go).
• Extensive production experience with Azure/AWS; familiarity with GCP is a plus.
• Expertise in OpenTelemetry and modern observability.
• Solid grounding in SRE principles including SLOs and error budgets.
• Autonomous problem solving with strong communication to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own observability, automated recovery, and workflow automation across major platform areas.
• Eliminate toil via automated retries, self-healing architectures, and proactive fault detection.
• Partner with teams to define SLOs and allocate reliability investments using metrics.
• Act as incident commander for major outages and lead blameless post-incident reviews.
• Design and verify disaster recovery and failover processes; improve runbooks.

Skills

C# & .NET

Automation scripting

PowerShell

Python

Go

Azure

AWS

Google Cloud Platform

OpenTelemetry

SRE practices

Incident management

Stakeholder management

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

Finova, the UK’s leading lending technology provider, seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer in Manchester. You will join a reliability-focused function, owning observability and automated recovery across a financial platform that handles billions in loans and savings.

You’ll collaborate with platform engineering and infrastructure while shaping SLOs and incident response. You’ll bring deep experience in C#/.NET, cloud platforms (Azure/AWS, with GCP exposure), and OpenTelemetry.