SRE Lead - FinTech - £120K+

Oliver Bernard; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading FinTech company in the UK is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to lead their SRE team. The role emphasizes hands-on improvement and automation of trading platforms, with opportunities to define technology strategies and drive team growth. Ideal candidates will possess strong technical skills in SRE and DevOps, along with leadership capabilities.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in Site Reliability / DevOps Engineering.
• Experience with Java and/or Python development.
• Knowledge of high availability infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Site Reliability Engineering team and drive platform engineering.
• Improve and automate trading platforms.
• Define technology strategies and own release pipelines.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

DevOps Engineering

Java

Python

Automation

Cloud

Linux

Communication

Leadership

Tools

Containers

Monitoring

CI/CD

Job description

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Our client is one of the world’s leading FinTechs and are building out their Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team in the UK.

They’re looking to hire an experienced SRE to lead the team, grow it and drive platform engineering forwards.

The role will still be very “hands on” with a focus on the improvement, automation and engineering of their trading platforms – a cutting edge, low latency and very high availability infrastructure.

You’ll take real ownership of release pipelines, performance engineering and work how you want a huge variety of tools and technologies

As the leader in the team, you’ll be able to define and drive technology strategies - You’ll have the chance to make the team your own!

Requirements:

Very strong technical experience of Site Reliability / DevOps Engineering

Good experience of Java and / or Python development and scripting

Very good experience of containers, monitoring, automation, Cloud and Linux

Good knowledge of DevOps best practices, tools and CI/CD

Good understanding of working in high availability / high volume infrastructure environments

Excellent communications skills

The ability to lead others – A vision of “what good looks like”

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development, Financial Services, and IT System Custom Software Development

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