Hybrid SRE - AWS/Azure | First US Tech Hire (NY)

Stott and May; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Stott and May seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to be the first technical hire in the US, based in New York with 3 days in the office. The role focuses on reliability, scaling, and incident response for a fast-growing FX hedging platform.

You will work closely with engineering, infrastructure and business stakeholders, bridging US and UK teams, and contributing to runbooks, automation, and continuous improvement of support processes.

Qualifications

• Strong background in application support, site reliability engineering or production support.
• Experience supporting production environments and resolving live incidents.
• Understanding of SRE principles, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets and blameless post-mortems.
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Datadog.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure.
• Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language (TypeScript, .NET, Bash, PowerShell).
• Knowledge of SQL and databases.
• Understanding of networking fundamentals, Linux and Windows systems.
• Excellent communication skills for technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Investigate, own and resolve incidents across the platform and infrastructure.
• Work with cross-functional teams for rapid production issue response.
• Build and maintain runbooks, post-mortems and internal documentation.
• Improve observability through monitoring, alerting and dashboards.
• Reduce operational overhead through automation and reliability-focused engineering.
• Contribute to the improvement of support processes, tooling and applications.
• Train, coach and support UK on-call support rota.

Skills

SRE/Production Support

Incident response

Observability (Datadog)

AWS/Azure

TypeScript

.NET

Bash

PowerShell

SQL

Linux

Windows

Communication skills

Tools

Datadog

Terraform

CloudFormation

CDK

Docker

TeamCity

Job description

Stott and May seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to be the first technical hire in the US, based in New York with 3 days in the office. The role focuses on reliability, scaling, and incident response for a fast-growing FX hedging platform.

You will work closely with engineering, infrastructure and business stakeholders, bridging US and UK teams, and contributing to runbooks, automation, and continuous improvement of support processes.