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Site Reliability Engineer
Currys · London, ENG, United Kingdom
London, ENG, United KingdomFull timeHybrid
Remuneration
Not specified
Location
London, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
The Site Reliability Engineer owns the availability, performance, and resilience of customer-facing and core trading services, applying software engineering practices to production operations. The role builds a central AIOps platform for telemetry ingestion, anomaly detection, event correlation, predictive alerting, and automated remediation, while improving observability, reliability automation, incident response, and peak-trading capacity planning. It also embeds SRE practices across product teams and participates in a 24x7 on-call rota.
Benefits
Ongoing training
Qualifications
- Strong software engineering skills in at least one of Python, Go, PHP, or Java.
- Experience writing, reviewing, and operating production code.
- Hands-on cloud experience; Azure preferred, with AWS or GCP valued.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Linux or Windows environments.
- Deep observability and monitoring experience, including designing service level indicators, objectives, and alerting strategies.
- Experience with AIOps capabilities such as anomaly detection, event correlation, predictive alerting, or automated remediation.
- Incident management experience in complex, fast-paced IT environments.
- Clear communication and stakeholder collaboration skills.
Responsibilities
- Define and report service level indicators, objectives, and error budgets with product teams.
- Design, build, and operate a central AIOps platform for telemetry, event correlation, anomaly detection, predictive alerting, and automated remediation.
- Build and evolve observability using metrics, logs, traces, and events.
- Automate operational work using infrastructure as code, self-service tools, CI/CD improvements, and reliability testing.
- Escalate major incidents, lead blameless post-incident reviews, and drive root cause fixes.
- Review architecture and designs for reliability, scalability, security, and operability.
- Lead capacity planning and performance engineering for peak trading events.
- Coach product engineering teams in SRE practices and participate in a 24x7 on-call rota.
Skills
AWSAzureAzure MonitorDockerGCPGoGrafanaJavaKubernetesLinuxNew RelicOpenTelemetryPagerDutyPHPPrometheusPythonWindows
Languages
PythonGoPHPJava
Work schedule
24x7 on-call rota
Industry
RetailE-commerceConsumer goodsFinance
Relocation
No