SRE Observability Engineer - Hybrid | Automation

Citi Group; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days leave

Discretionary bonus

Private medical care

Life insurance

Employee assistance

Pension plan

Parental leave

Learning resources

Discounts

Job summary

Citi UK in Belfast is seeking a hands-on SRE engineer to build reusable automation and reliability frameworks for production systems across Services Production. You will partner with SREs, developers and platform teams to reduce toil and accelerate delivery.

You will automate with Python or similar languages, work on cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), and contribute to monitoring, incident response, and production readiness. A strong emphasis on collaboration and continuous learning is expected.

Qualifications

• Experience in SRE or engineering roles focused on automation and resiliency.
• Proficiency in scripting/automation languages (e.g., Python, Bash, Terraform, Ansible, YAML).
• Strong understanding of CI/CD workflows and Agile delivery.
• Experience with hybrid platforms (on‑prem, cloud, and containers like ECS/Kubernetes).
• Good communication skills and ability to share knowledge with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Deliver reusable automation solutions and reliability frameworks to support LoB teams.
• Automate toil and build internal tooling in Python, Go or similar; measure toil reduction.
• Collaborate with SREs and platform teams to improve production engineering standards.
• Maintain the central production engineering backlog using Jira.
• Review architecture and production-readiness for new services.
• Develop utilities, scripts, and templates to improve production support.

Skills

Python scripting

CI/CD workflows

SRE fundamentals

Cloud platforms

Monitoring tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

YAML

Kubernetes

ECS

Job description

Citi UK in Belfast is seeking a hands-on SRE engineer to build reusable automation and reliability frameworks for production systems across Services Production. You will partner with SREs, developers and platform teams to reduce toil and accelerate delivery.

You will automate with Python or similar languages, work on cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), and contribute to monitoring, incident response, and production readiness. A strong emphasis on collaboration and continuous learning is expected.