Site Reliability Engineer

Empiric; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Part time

Job summary

Empiric is seeking two hands-on Linux Site Reliability Engineers to support a global trading platform. This contract role is on-site initially, four days a week, reducing to two days per week, with strong emphasis on automation and reliability across on‑prem and cloud environments.

You will work closely with engineering teams to improve platform resilience, patching, monitoring, and incident response, leveraging Python/Bash, Linux expertise and CI/CD practices in a fast-paced, financial services

Qualifications

• 3+ years Linux production support, systems engineering or SRE experience.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting fundamentals.
• Practical scripting experience with Python and/or Bash.
• Experience supporting business-critical production environments.
• Strong automation and continuous improvement mindset.
• Experience with monitoring, observability and incident management.
• Experience managing Linux patching across infrastructure environments.
• Comfortable working within a global on‑call / follow‑the‑sun model.

Responsibilities

• Support and maintain Linux-based production infrastructure.
• Drive Linux patching across on‑premise and cloud environments.
• Develop automation and tooling using Python and/or Bash.
• Monitor platform performance, availability and reliability.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues and lead incident resolution.
• Develop and maintain operational runbooks and monitoring solutions.
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual processes through automation.
• Support global on‑call operations and handovers.
• Work closely with engineering teams to improve operational resilience.

Skills

Linux administration

Python scripting

Bash scripting

Automation

On-call experience

AWS

CI/CD

Observability

Incident management

Trading tech

Tools

AWS

Observability tools

Job description

Linux Site Reliability Engineer – Global Trading Environment

Contract: Contract

Location: On-site initially 4 days per week, reducing to 2 days per week

We are seeking two experienced Linux Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) to support a global, low-latency systematic trading platform.

This is a hands‑on production engineering role focused on improving platform reliability, automating operational processes and maintaining highly available infrastructure across on‑premise and cloud environments.

The successful candidates will have strong Linux engineering fundamentals, practical scripting experience and a proactive approach to automation and operational improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Support and maintain Linux-based production infrastructure.
• Drive Linux patching across on‑premise and cloud environments.
• Develop automation and tooling using Python and/or Bash.
• Monitor platform performance, availability and reliability.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues and lead incident resolution.
• Develop and maintain operational runbooks and monitoring solutions.
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual processes through automation.
• Support global on‑call operations and follow‑the‑sun handovers.
• Work closely with engineering teams to improve operational resilience.
• 3+ years' Linux production support, systems engineering or SRE experience.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting fundamentals.
• Practical scripting experience with Python and/or Bash.
• Experience supporting business-critical production environments.
• Strong automation and continuous improvement mindset.
• Experience with monitoring, observability and incident management.
• Experience managing Linux patching across infrastructure environments.
• Comfortable working within a global on‑call / follow‑the‑sun model.
• AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Observability and monitoring platforms.
• CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation.
• Financial services, hedge funds or trading technology.
• Market‑data or systematic trading environments.

The ideal candidate:

A hands-on Linux Engineer or SRE who enjoys automating infrastructure, improving production reliability and eliminating repetitive operational tasks. Trading experience is advantageous but not essential where strong Linux and automation capabilities are demonstrated.