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Principal Site Reliability Engineer
FINOVA · Salford, ENG, United Kingdom
Salford, ENG, United KingdomHybrid
Remuneration
Private medical insurance; life assurance and income protection; enhanced family-friendly policies; paid holiday; pension scheme; employee assistance programme; electric car scheme; health cash plan; gym discounts
Location
Salford, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
The Principal Site Reliability Engineer establishes reliability standards across production systems, including dedicated client environments and a greenfield GCP platform, for financial-services technology. The role defines SLOs and error budgets, builds OpenTelemetry-based observability, reduces operational toil, and unifies infrastructure as code. It also leads disaster recovery, failover, and critical incident response while developing reliability practices across the organisation.
Benefits
Private medical insuranceLife assurance and income protectionEnhanced family-friendly policies25 days of paid holiday plus public holidaysCompany pension schemeEmployee assistance programmeElectric car schemeHealth cash planGym discountsWork abroad for up to four weeks per year with approval
Qualifications
- Extensive experience as a Principal or Lead Site Reliability Engineer.
- Hands-on C# and .NET expertise.
- Scripting proficiency in PowerShell, Python, or Go.
- Architectural expertise in Azure or AWS across complex, high-scale production environments.
- GCP experience is advantageous.
- Experience designing end-to-end observability frameworks, including telemetry integration with legacy systems.
- Ability to drive cultural and operational transformation and embed proactive reliability practices.
- Strong communication skills, from production debugging to presenting reliability investments to senior leaders.
Responsibilities
- Define SLOs and error-budget policies across products.
- Direct instrumentation, telemetry, and alerting architecture using OpenTelemetry.
- Reduce operational toil by identifying and engineering out bottlenecks.
- Partner with the Platform team to establish a unified infrastructure-as-code toolchain across environments.
- Lead disaster recovery, failover, and restore-verification strategies.
- Serve as senior escalation point for critical production incidents.
- Mentor the SRE team and promote reliability practices across the organisation.
Skills
AWSAzureC#.NETGCPGoOpenTelemetryPowerShellPython
Work schedule
Three days in the office each week
Industry
Financial servicesLending and savings technology
Relocation
No