Site Reliability Engineer

Job summary

The Site Reliability Engineer builds and operates reliable, secure, and scalable application platforms across AWS and hybrid environments, using Kubernetes and Java Spring Boot microservices. The role focuses on observability with Splunk and Dynatrace, performance and capacity optimization, incident prevention, automation, and applying SRE practices such as service level indicators, service level objectives, and error budgets. It also supports reliability needs in asset and wealth management.

Qualifications

• Eight to twelve years of Site Reliability Engineering experience in complex environments.
• Hands-on experience with AWS compute, storage, networking, and managed application services.
• Experience implementing SRE practices, observability, and incident management.
• Advanced Splunk skills in log management, dashboards, alerts, and analytics.
• Production experience managing Kubernetes clusters.
• Strong Java and Spring Boot microservices development experience.
• Currently reside in the United Kingdom.
• Available to start within four weeks of receiving an offer.
• Hold the required AWS, Kubernetes, and Splunk certifications.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement highly available AWS application infrastructure across hybrid environments.
• Optimize Kubernetes resource usage, scaling strategies, and deployment pipelines.
• Develop and improve reliable, maintainable Java Spring Boot microservices.
• Create and maintain Splunk monitoring and alerting strategies.
• Apply SRE practices, including error budgets, service level indicators, and service level objectives.
• Analyze production incidents and implement corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
• Automate deployments, rollbacks, configuration updates, and health checks.
• Plan capacity and conduct performance testing.
• Document runbooks, operational procedures, and reliability practices.
• Collaborate with engineering teams and stakeholders to improve release strategies and domain-specific reliability.
• Integrate security, compliance, and governance requirements into SRE workflows.

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