Jobs / FINOVA
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
FINOVA · Salford, ENG, United Kingdom
Salford, ENG, United KingdomHybrid
Remuneration
Not specified
Location
Salford, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will shape reliability practices for an enterprise financial services platform as it modernises onto Google Cloud Platform. The role focuses on reducing operational toil and improving resilience through observability, automated recovery, SLOs and error budgets, incident leadership, and failover and disaster recovery testing. The engineer will also mentor teams and promote resilient software design.
Benefits
Private medical insuranceLife assurance and income protectionEnhanced family-friendly policiesOption to work abroad for up to four weeks per year with approval25 days of paid holiday plus public holidaysHoliday tradingCompany pension schemeEmployee assistance programmeElectric car schemeHealth cash planGym discountsFresh fruit and snacksWeekly social events
Qualifications
- Proven software engineering and tooling development experience.
- Proficiency in C# and .NET, with automation scripting in PowerShell, Python, or Go.
- Production experience running distributed architectures on Azure or AWS; Google Cloud Platform experience is an advantage.
- Expertise in OpenTelemetry, including instrumentation design, telemetry pipelines, and targeted alerting.
- Practical experience implementing SLOs and error budgets and reducing systemic toil.
- Ability to independently investigate ambiguous reliability issues and deliver scalable engineering solutions.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence resilient software design.
Responsibilities
- Own observability, automated recovery, or workflow automation across major platform segments.
- Eliminate operational toil through automated retries, self-healing architecture, and proactive fault detection.
- Partner with engineering teams to establish SLOs and error budgets and prioritise reliability investments using operational metrics.
- Join the escalation rota, act as incident commander for critical outages, and lead blameless post-incident reviews.
- Design and execute failover and disaster recovery verification programmes.
- Mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and create runbooks for support teams.
Skills
AWSAzureC#.NETGCPGoOpenTelemetryPowerShellPython
Work schedule
Compensated escalation rota
Industry
Financial servicesLending and savings technology
Relocation
No