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Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Fun*** · London, ENG, United Kingdom
London, ENG, United Kingdom95,000-105,000 GBP/yearlyHybrid
Remuneration
Compensated out-of-hours incident rota
Location
London, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Sponsors visa
Job summary
Maintains and improves production infrastructure for financial surveillance services, ensuring client data is processed reliably, monitoring detects issues early, and client environments remain isolated. The hands-on role operates AWS EKS and Kubernetes using Terraform, and improves alerting, CI/CD and GitOps, service resilience, incident learning, and infrastructure cost efficiency across data-heavy systems.
Benefits
Private health insuranceLife insuranceFlexible stipendMatched pension contribution up to 10%Peer micro-bonuses1,000 annual learning budgetUnlimited professional development leave25 days of annual leave, with additional leave based on usage and tenureFour additional weeks of paid leave during the fifth year26 weeks of leave for new parentsVolunteering leaveBirthday off
Qualifications
- Several years of production AWS infrastructure experience, including EKS, IAM, and networking across multiple accounts and regions.
- Strong Kubernetes expertise, including multi-tenancy, Helm, scaling behavior, and cluster pressure.
- Ability to write maintainable Terraform to application-code standards.
- Programming experience in Python, Go, or a comparable language.
- Experience building or operating CI/CD and using GitOps.
- Experience operating data-heavy systems, including message queues, search clusters, and high-volume pipelines.
- A learning-focused approach to incidents.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with product engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Operate and scale isolated client environments across the EKS estate.
- Extend monitoring and alerting, and promote service-level ownership among service teams.
- Maintain fast CI/CD pipelines and predictable deployments.
- Design service resilience for slow or unavailable dependencies and unprocessable messages.
- Improve infrastructure sizing and compute efficiency, and track costs per client environment.
- Participate in incident response and prevent recurring incidents.
Skills
AWSAzureClickHouseEKSElasticsearchFluxGitHubGitHub ActionsGoGrafanaHelmIAMKafkaKubernetesLokiOpenTelemetryPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonTerraform
Languages
PythonGo
Work schedule
Optional compensated out-of-hours incident rota
Industry
Financial surveillanceCompliance software
Relocation
No