Site Reliability Engineer - Financial Org

Hamilton Barnes; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading FinTech company is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to enhance platform reliability, design scalable infrastructure, and collaborate closely with development teams. The ideal candidate will have experience in managing cloud processes and tools like Azure DevOps and Terraform. This role offers a competitive salary of £80k and benefits including generous holidays, a personal development budget, and opportunities for internal progression.

Benefits

28 days holiday (plus bank holidays)

Generous yearly anniversary rewards, including 4 weeks paid sabbatical in year 4

£2,000 yearly learning budget for personal development

4% contribution to your pension (with up to 7% match)

Private healthcare through Vitality

Worldwide Travel Insurance through Vitality

Six free therapy sessions

Opportunities for internal career progression

Free breakfast and snacks every day

Pilot new ideas that impact business growth

Travel card loan and/or cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in managing public cloud processes.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, Octopus and other CI/CD tools.
• Experience in Powershell, Bash or other scripting languages.
• Experience with Linux, Unix and Microsoft Systems.
• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker – advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Manage Azure services and resources, Cloudflare edge security, and traffic management in code.
• Own Terraform/Ansible/Pulumi Infrastructure as Code for each Product Engineering team.
• Continuously identify opportunities for improvement in systems, processes, and technologies.

Skills

Managing public cloud processes

Azure DevOps

CI/CD tools

Powershell

Bash

Linux

Kubernetes

Docker

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Pulumi

Job description

Role

Are you passionate about ensuring the reliability, performance, and availability of platforms?

You’ll play a crucial role as a Site Reliability Engineer, responsible for designing, building, and monitoring systems to maximize uptime and efficiency, providing users with an exceptional experience.

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll collaborate closely with software developers to integrate reliability into application design. You’ll work with the Platform team to build scalable infrastructure that supports these applications.

You’ll have a vital part in defining the launch of new features, leveraging service-level agreements (SLAs), service-level indicators (SLIs), and service-level objectives (SLOs) to ensure the required reliability of platforms.

Apply here if you’re interested!

Responsibilities

• Manage Azure services and resources, Cloudflare edge security, and traffic management in code.
• Own Terraform / Ansible / Pulumi Infrastructure as Code for each Product Engineering team.
• Continuously identify opportunities for improvement in systems, processes, and technologies, and implement changes to improve the overall reliability and performance of the platforms.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing public cloud processes
• Experience with Azure DevOps, Octopus and other CI/CD tools
• Experience in Powershell, Bash or other scripting languages
• Experience with Linux, Unix and Microsoft Systems
• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker – advantageous
• Experience in ISO 27001 – advantageous
• Terraform and Ansible experience, Pulumi – advantageous

Salary

£80k base.

Benefits

• 28 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
• Generous yearly anniversary rewards, including 4 weeks paid sabbatical in year 4
• £2,000 yearly learning budget for personal development
• 4% contribution to your pension (with up to 7% match) through our pension plan
• Private healthcare through Vitality
• Worldwide Travel Insurance through Vitality
• Six free therapy sessions
• Opportunities for internal career progression
• Free breakfast and snacks every day
• An opportunity to pilot new ideas that impact the growth and direction of the business
• The chance to work for one of the fastest-growing FinTech companies in the UK
• Travel card loan and / or cycle to work scheme