VP, Site Reliability Engineer — Lead Scalable Cloud Resilience

BNY Mellon; Manchester; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial services firm in Manchester is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (Vice President) to enhance reliability and performance. The successful candidate will drive automation, collaborate cross-functionally, and lead incident management efforts. Expertise in cloud infrastructure, containerization, and observability tools is essential. This role offers competitive compensation and a culture focused on innovation and excellence.

Benefits

Competitive compensation

Flexible well-being programs

Generous paid leaves

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in cloud infrastructure and containerization.
• Proficiency in observability tools and incident response.
• Solid programming and scripting skills for automation.
• Deep understanding of SRE principles and system design.
• Experience in Agile environments and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Drive reliability by defining SLOs/SLIs and improving observability.
• Automate infrastructure using Terraform and Kubernetes.
• Collaborate with teams to reduce incidents and build resilient services.
• Lead incident management and minimize downtime.
• Build monitoring systems for real-time alerting and analysis.
• Mentor engineers and ensure technical excellence.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure expertise (Azure, AWS, GCP)

Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm)

Observability and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana)

Programming skills (Python, Go, Java)

SRE principles

Collaboration and communication skills

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD tools

Prometheus

Grafana

AppDynamics

Splunk

Job description

A leading global financial services firm in Manchester is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (Vice President) to enhance reliability and performance. The successful candidate will drive automation, collaborate cross-functionally, and lead incident management efforts. Expertise in cloud infrastructure, containerization, and observability tools is essential. This role offers competitive compensation and a culture focused on innovation and excellence.