Site Reliability Engineering Lead

MarkJames Search; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in financial services is on the lookout for a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Lead specializing in Observability. This hybrid role offers the opportunity to lead a team focused on enhancing observability practices across various product groups. You will leverage your expertise with tools like Datadog and DevOps technologies to drive excellence in performance metrics and monitoring solutions. Join a dynamic team where your contributions will significantly impact the organization's operational efficiency and service reliability. This is a fantastic chance to take your career to the next level in a supportive and innovative environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in an SRE role with a strong focus on Observability.
• Expert-level proficiency with DevOps tools including GitHub and Jenkins.

Responsibilities

• Lead the SRE Observability team and champion observability practices.
• Collaborate with product teams to create monitoring and alerting blueprints.

Skills

SRE Experience

Observability Practices

DevOps Tools

Python Scripting

Shell Scripting

Tools

Datadog

GitHub

Jenkins

CloudFormation

Terraform

Job description

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Job Title: Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Lead – Observability

A leading Financial Services organisation in London is seeking a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Lead – Observability to join their team on a 6-month contract. This is a hybrid role requiring two days per week onsite at their Stratford, London offices. The role sits Inside IR35.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the SRE Observability team and champion observability practices across multiple product groups.
• Provide thought leadership from the Cognizant delivery team on all things SRE.
• Leverage hands-on experience with Datadog to implement and enhance observability capabilities.
• Guide and oversee the day-to-day operation and maintenance of observability tools.
• Partner directly with engineering teams to support delivery of observability backlogs.
• Collaborate with product teams to create monitoring and alerting blueprints, patterns, and automation.
• Capture, analyse, and report on performance and capacity metrics.
• Shape observability requirements with product teams for new and existing services.
• Design and deliver business-focused dashboards based on stakeholder needs.
• Drive the creation and QA of project-level Observability Plans.
• Input into and assure the quality of testing strategies and results.

Requirements

• Proven experience in an SRE role with a strong focus on Observability.
• Expert-level proficiency with DevOps tools including GitHub, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Nexus, CloudFormation/Terraform, and CodeQL.
• Extensive hands-on experience with observability tools – Datadog preferred.
• Deep understanding of AWS services such as EC2, ELB, ECS, S3, Config, CloudTrail, Lambda, EFS, and VPC.
• Strong scripting skills in Python and Shell.

Interested?

Apply now to be considered for this exciting contract opportunity, and play a key role in driving observability excellence within a major financial services organisation

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

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