Site Reliability Engineer

ClearRoute; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Home office budget

Profit sharing

Private healthcare

Learning budgets and Udemy access

Job summary

ClearRoute is seeking a senior, hands-on engineering leader to transform how its financial services client builds, tests and deploys software. You will have strong executive sponsorship and authority to unblock teams and influence strategy across multiple feature teams.

The focus is on automated testing, CI/CD, developer experience and AI-assisted development, with the opportunity to shape how teams work at scale.

Qualifications

• Experience leading large-scale engineering transformations.
• Proven ability to improve slow or manual processes at scale.
• Strong grounding in automated testing, CI/CD and modern deployment practices.
• Experience with cloud-native platforms and AWS recommended.

Responsibilities

• Drive the Engineering Health Plan and prioritise the improvement backlog.
• Transform testing to enable faster, safer delivery with automation.
• Enable continuous delivery and trunk-based deployment across teams.
• Shape AI-assisted engineering and review AI tooling usage in production.

Skills

Trunk-based development

CI/CD

Blue-green deployments

TDD/BDD

Pair programming

Automated testing

Code review

Cloud-native engineering

Containers

AI-assisted software development

Tools

VS Code

IntelliJ

Cursor

Windsurf

Roo

Salesforce

Job description

About Us:

ClearRoute is an engineering consultancy bridging Quality Engineering, Cloud Platforms and Developer Experience. We help enterprises reliably bring high-impact digital products to market faster, cheaper, and safer, working with technology leaders facing complex business challenges.

We take as much pride in our people, culture and work-life balance as we do in making better software. We're not just making better software. We're making the making of software better. Collaborative, entrepreneurial and dedicated to problem solving, we bring the step change our customer need to sustain innovation. Our values challenge us to do the best we can for ClearRoute, our customers and most importantly our team. This is an opportunity for you to build the organisation from the ground up, use your voice to drive change and help transform organisations and problem domains.

Role:

We're looking for a senior, hands-on engineering leader to help a major financial services client transform the way its engineering teams build, test and deploy software. You'll have strong executive sponsorship and the authority to unblock teams, influence engineering strategy and drive change across multiple feature teams.

The focus is simple: make engineering faster, safer and more effective - particularly around automated testing, CI/CD, developer experience and AI-assisted development. You'll be working at the intersection of engineering leadership, platform engineering and modern software delivery, with the opportunity to shape how teams work at scale.

Key Responsibilities:

Drive the Engineering Health Plan

• Assess, estimate and prioritise the engineering improvement backlog.
• Break the work down across multiple feature teams.
• Spend around 20% of your time directly driving the health plan and tracking progress.
• Identify blockers and work with senior stakeholders to get them removed.
• Influence engineering teams without relying on formal authority.

Transform Testing

• Take a large-scale Salesforce regression testing process from around three weeks of manual testing to a matter of hours through automation.
• Identify and resolve bottlenecks in existing test suites.
• Establish scalable approaches to automated testing and regression.
• Help teams build testing into their development lifecycle rather than treating it as a final-stage activity.

Enable Continuous Delivery

• Help engineering teams move towards true automated deployment and CI/CD.
• Enable engineers to safely deploy to production at the push of a button.
• Champion trunk-based development, feature flags and blue-green deployment strategies.
• Work across AWS, containers and modern cloud-native engineering practices.
• Improve the overall developer experience and engineering flow.

Shape AI-Assisted Engineering

The engineering teams are already using Claude to support software development. You'll help review and evolve their approach, including:

• How AI coding tools are integrated into the developer workflow.
• IDE and tooling choices, including tools such as VS Code, IntelliJ, Cursor, Windsurf and Roo.
• Model selection and usage patterns.
• Agent/toolchain configuration.
• Engineering controls required to safely take AI-generated code into production.

Required Experience:

• Trunk-based development
• CI/CD and automated deployment
• Feature flags and blue-green deployments
• TDD and BDD
• Pair programming and collaborative engineering
• Automated testing and test strategy
• Code review and engineering quality
• Cloud-native engineering, ideally AWS
• Containers and modern deployment practices
• AI-assisted software development
• Safely deploying AI-generated code into production

We're particularly interested in people who can demonstrate that they've taken a broken, slow or overly manual engineering process and materially improved it at scale.

Desirable Experience:

• Salesforce testing and automation.
• Financial services or other highly regulated environments.
• Modernising legacy technology estates, including mainframe or Hadoop/Teradata environments.
• Anthropic/Claude or other AI coding platforms.
• Setting up developer experience platforms spanning IDE + AI model + agent/tooling.
• Platform engineering across developer experience, cloud, automated testing and security.
• Large-scale engineering transformation or developer productivity initiatives.

Working at ClearRoute
We have grown from six founders to 180+ people across five countries in three years, and what sets us apart isn't the pace, it's how we grow.

• Real flexibility, in practice. We trust you to perform at your best and still have a life outside of work, with genuine hybrid working, a home office budget, an open feedback culture where your voice shapes decisions, and time off when life needs it (birthday included).
• When ClearRoute wins, you win. We offer profit share so success is shared, meaningful recognition for great work, and benefits that look after you and your family, including private healthcare, competitive salary benchmarking, and a confidential employee assistance program covering counselling, mental health support, and financial wellbeing.
• A community you'll genuinely want to be part of. Interest based communities like running and book clubs, Women in Tech group, monthly socials, and cross regional events bring people together across the company. An inclusive, collaborative culture where you don't need to conform to succeed, where people support one another and feel comfortable being themselves.
• Where meaningful work meets real growth. You will tackle complex, real world problems at the forefront of platform engineering, AI, security, and scalable systems. Your growth is supported by learning budgets, Udemy access, a clear career framework, internal mobility, and thought leadership opportunities that take your impact beyond ClearRoute.

At ClearRoute, we believe diverse perspectives lead to better outcomes, and inclusion creates the conditions for everyone to thrive. We are proud to have built a family friendly working environment and have many employees who have caring responsibilities alongside work. We welcome applications from people who require flexibility and will be happy to discuss needs on an individual basis.

We are committed to fostering a culture where all team members feel respected, supported, and empowered to do their best work. We celebrate individuality and our differences and understand that some differences may mean that you require changes made to the interview process. We are happy to cater to your needs to make the interview accessible, if this is something you require please let us know by emailing us at [e-mail]