Site Reliability Engineer - Finance Analytics & Cloud Ops

TP ICAP; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services company based in Greater London seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the uptime and performance of Global Analytics services. You will collaborate with software engineering and QA teams to maintain CI/CD pipelines, manage incidents, and reduce repetitive tasks. The ideal candidate has solid experience with financial trading systems, AWS, and relevant tools like Grafana and Docker. This role requires a degree level education and a focus on long-term results in a critical production environment.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Solid experience working with financial trading systems.
• Good understanding of high-level Networking systems (e.g. firewalls, load-balancers).
• Experience working with cloud platforms, preferably AWS, with Kubernetes and Docker.
• Experience working with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana and Prometheus.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipeline tools and Infrastructure as Code tools.
• Scripting and Automation experience, ideally with Python and PowerShell.
• Experience of application performance profiling tools.
• Highly analytical, focused on long-term results and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Ensure uptime, availability, and performance of Global Analytics services.
• Define and monitor Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs).
• Respond to incidents and outages working with engineering teams.
• Prevent service disruption through proactive alerts.
• Work with engineering to reduce repetitive tasks.
• Build and maintain internal tools to improve productivity.
• Implement and maintain logging, metrics, and tracing systems.
• Plan for scaling capacity and infrastructure needs.
• Ensure compliance with departmental policies.
• Collaborate to maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with QA for safe software releases.
• Ensure systems are secure and meet compliance standards.

Skills

Financial trading systems

High-level Networking systems

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Monitoring tools (Grafana, Prometheus)

CI/CD pipeline tools (Gitlab)

Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform)

Scripting (Python, PowerShell)

Education

Degree level or equivalent experience

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

Gitlab

Terraform

Job description

A financial services company based in Greater London seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the uptime and performance of Global Analytics services. You will collaborate with software engineering and QA teams to maintain CI/CD pipelines, manage incidents, and reduce repetitive tasks. The ideal candidate has solid experience with financial trading systems, AWS, and relevant tools like Grafana and Docker. This role requires a degree level education and a focus on long-term results in a critical production environment.