Site Reliability Engineer: Platform Automation in London

Hamilton Barnes ?; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Hamilton Barnes partners with a technology-driven trading firm to hire a Site Reliability Engineer for its Platform Engineering team in London. The role focuses on building internal platforms, tooling and automation to support a global production environment.

You’ll work across Linux, distributed systems and cloud-native technologies, developing scalable tooling that improves reliability, observability and operational efficiency.

Qualifications

• Strong experience programming with Python and Go.
• Experience with Linux and distributed systems.
• Experience with monitoring, observability or SRE practices.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Git.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and containerised workloads.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop internal infrastructure tooling and automation.
• Build and maintain monitoring, observability and configuration management platforms.
• Improve platform reliability, scalability and operational efficiency.
• Troubleshoot performance issues across complex distributed systems.
• Support application deployments using modern CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve infrastructure and developer workflows.
• Contribute to platform architecture and ongoing technical improvements.

Skills

Python

Go

C++

Linux

Observability

SRE practices

CI/CD

Git

Kubernetes

Troubleshooting

Tools

Git

Kubernetes

Job description

Hamilton Barnes partners with a technology-driven trading firm to hire a Site Reliability Engineer for its Platform Engineering team in London. The role focuses on building internal platforms, tooling and automation to support a global production environment.

You’ll work across Linux, distributed systems and cloud-native technologies, developing scalable tooling that improves reliability, observability and operational efficiency.