Jobs / HSBC
Site Reliability Engineer
HSBC · Sheffield, ENG, United Kingdom
Sheffield, ENG, United KingdomOnsite
Remuneration
Competitive pay and benefits package, including private healthcare for UK-based employees, enhanced maternity and adoption pay and return-to-work support, and a contributory pension with an employer contribution.
Location
Sheffield, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
The Site Reliability Engineer supports the availability, reliability, and scalability of cloud-based production systems in a banking and financial services environment. The role applies SRE practices including monitoring, alerting, SLOs/SLIs, incident response, and on-call support, while managing Docker and Kubernetes applications, improving CI/CD and GitOps workflows, and automating operations with Python, Bash, or Go.
Benefits
Private healthcare for UK-based employeesEnhanced maternity and adoption payReturn-to-work supportContributory pension with employer contribution
Qualifications
- Hands-on experience in SRE, DevOps, or production support.
- Practical knowledge of GCP, AWS, or Azure.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes; Helm or Istio knowledge is advantageous.
- Ability to use Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Jaeger, or Datadog.
- Familiarity with Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, FluxCD, or Tekton.
- Proficiency in Python, Bash, Go, or comparable languages.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to resolve complex production issues.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
Responsibilities
- Maintain production systems for high availability, reliability, and scalability.
- Implement monitoring, alerting, SLOs, SLIs, and incident response practices.
- Deploy, configure, and manage containerised applications with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.
- Automate operational tasks using Python, Bash, Go, or comparable languages.
- Collaborate with development, QA, and operations teams to resolve issues and improve services.
- Participate in the on-call rota and respond promptly to production incidents.
- Document procedures, system configurations, and post-incident reviews.
Skills
AnsibleArgo CDAWSAzureBashDatadogDockerFluxGCPGitLabGitLab CIGoGrafanaHelmIstioJaegerJenkinsKubernetesPrometheusPythonTektonTerraformElasticsearchKibanaLogstash
Languages
PythonBashGo
Work schedule
On-call support rota
Industry
Banking and financial services
Relocation
No