Site Reliability Lead

St. James's Place; Cirencester; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services company based in Cirencester is seeking a Mid-Senior Level professional to enhance their IT Disaster Recovery capabilities. The role involves ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and optimizing resilience through AWS technologies. Ideal candidates will have strong problem-solving skills and AWS certifications. Competitive benefits and a hybrid work environment are offered.

Benefits

Discretionary annual bonus

28 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Competitive parental leave

Private medical insurance

10% non-contributory pension

Qualifications

• Experience with AWS technologies such as EC2, RDS, Lambda, S3, VPC, and CloudFormation.
• Strong experience with Chaos Engineering, including AWS Resilience Hub and Fault Injection Service.
• Experience in Financial Services or regulated industries is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Support and evolve IT Disaster Recovery capabilities.
• Assess technical architecture of critical services for resiliency standards.
• Collaborate with teams to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.

Skills

Problem-solving

Communication skills

Leadership

Detail-oriented

Education

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator

Solutions Architect Professional

DevOps Professional Certifications

Tools

AWS EC2

AWS RDS

Terraform

Python

PowerShell

Job description

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Are you ready to chart your own career path? At SJP, we need talented individuals like yourself to support our evolving culture. If you’re seeking an employer that is passionate about excellence, innovation, and autonomy, SJP could be the place for you.

At a glance:

Location: Cirencester Office

Workplace Type: Hybrid

Employment Type: Permanent

Seniority: Mid-Senior Level

The role:

The main purpose of this role is to support and continually evolve SJP’s approach and capabilities in IT Disaster Recovery, chaos testing, and technical resiliency. To ensure the DR plans and tests are appropriate and leverage the evolving capabilities as implemented.

Interface with the Business Continuity & Operational Resilience teams, providing information as required and input on policies, tolerances, and thresholds related to IT systems within SJP estate.

You will oversee how the Group complies with and evidences IT testing as required by the regulator and work with suppliers to understand future strategies in this space.

What you'll be doing:

• Fully understand FCA and PRA regulatory requirements concerning technical disaster recovery and resilience.
• Understand AWS tools and capabilities regarding zone and region resiliency and how that applies to our estate, enabling risk assessment and communication.
• Assess the technical architecture of critical services to ensure they meet resiliency standards.
• Research, recommend, and apply new techniques for DR testing (chaos engineering, fault injection, etc.) to adapt to changing architecture and technologies.
• Promote recommendations and changes to improve resiliency and recovery for critical services and develop business cases as needed.
• Implement and optimize the use of AWS Resilience Hub to assess and improve application resilience through failure scenario testing, identifying weaknesses, and remediating issues.
• Analyze system performance, identify bottlenecks and high availability concerns, and suggest improvements.
• Create and maintain disaster recovery strategies and high-availability architectures, leveraging AWS services like Route 53, Auto Scaling, and Elastic Load Balancing.
• Collaborate with development teams and Cybersecurity to ensure services are designed for reliability, scalability, and fault tolerance.
• Develop and implement testing approaches aligned with the technology and architecture of critical applications in AWS.
• Oversee the quality of detailed DR plans, especially from a technical accuracy perspective.
• Coordinate with Business Continuity and Operational Resilience teams, providing updates as needed.

Who we're looking for:

We seek a proactive, detail-oriented leader with strong problem-solving and communication skills. The ideal candidate will drive technical resilience, collaborate across teams, ensure regulatory compliance, and enhance disaster recovery strategies to strengthen the reliability and security of critical services.

• Certified in AWS, including but not limited to AWS Certified DevOps Engineer and/or AWS Certified SysOps Administrator.
• Strong experience with Chaos Engineering, including AWS Resilience Hub and Fault Injection Service.
• Deep knowledge of AWS technologies such as EC2, RDS, Lambda, S3, VPC, and CloudFormation.
• Proficiency in Terraform, Python, and PowerShell.
• Experience with AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery.
• Solutions Architect Professional and DevOps Professional Certifications preferred.
• Experience in Financial Services or regulated industries is advantageous.

Special Requirements:

• Travel may be required for supplier service review meetings.

What's in it for you?

We reward your work through: a discretionary annual bonus reflecting personal and company performance, a competitive annual leave allowance (28 days plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase an additional 5 days), and access to our online rewards platform with various discounts.

We also offer benefits supporting all life stages, including:

• Competitive parental leave (28 weeks full pay)
• Private medical insurance (optional taxable benefit)
• 10% non-contributory pension (increasing with service)

Reasonable Adjustments: We are an equal opportunities employer committed to accessibility and inclusion. If you require adjustments during the recruitment process, please contact us via email. We encourage applicants from underrepresented groups and those with transferable experience to apply, even if they do not meet every criterion.