Site Reliability Engineer

SS&C Technologies; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

SS&C Technologies, a leader in financial services and healthcare technology, is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to ensure the scalability and reliability of our systems. In this role, you will collaborate with diverse teams to enhance system performance and automate processes. Join us to contribute to our mission and be part of a diverse workforce that values inclusion.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science.
• Strong experience with Linux/Unix systems and cloud services.
• Proficient in Python, Go, or Bash scripting.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a scalable infrastructure for mission-critical systems.
• Implement monitoring and incident response systems.
• Collaborate with development teams on performance and reliability.

Skills

Linux/Unix systems administration

Scripting with Python

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud platforms (AWS)

Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

Troubleshooting skills

Collaboration abilities

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Job Description

We are looking for a highly skilled Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our engineering team. As an SRE, you will be responsible for ensuring the scalability, reliability, and performance of our systems, infrastructure, and applications.

You will collaborate closely with software engineers, system administrators, and DevOps professionals to design and implement solutions that improve uptime, system availability, and overall service health.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain a scalable and reliable infrastructure to support mission-critical systems.
• Design and implement monitoring, alerting, and incident response systems to ensure high availability and performance.
• Develop tools and automation to eliminate manual operations and improve system efficiency.
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure that reliability and performance are considered from the outset.
• Conduct root cause analysis and postmortems to learn from system failures and prevent recurrence.
• Participate in on-call rotations and respond to incidents, minimising downtime and customer impact.
• Continuously improve deployment, configuration, and observability processes.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Strong experience with Linux/Unix systems administration.
• Proficient in scripting and programming languages such as Python, Go, or Bash.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Ansible)
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, Windows, Citrix).
• Deep understanding of CI/CD pipelines, networking, and security best practices.
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with large-scale distributed systems.
• Familiarity with SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs.
• Previous experience in a DevOps or SRE role in a production environment.

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups, to enable us to bring a diversity of perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.

Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.

SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.