Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description

Join us as a Site Reliability Engineer In this key role, you ll support the improvement of non-functional and operational characteristics such as availability, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, security, incident response, and capacity planning of our products and services You ll enjoy significant stakeholder interaction, working in collaboration with engineers to ensure a principled approach to deliver change in a safe and secure way This is a chance to join an inclusive team with a collaborative ethos and a commitment to innovation and professional development Were offering this role at associate level What youll do As our Site Reliability Engineer, you ll work alongside colleagues and feature team members to meet defined service level objectives and continually improve systems and environments. You ll proactively contribute new ideas and innovations to meet short term and longer term goals whilst at the same time balancing and managing risk. You ll also be accountable for the day-to-day health of both production and non-production environments, responding to incidents as required. A typical day will involve: Providing structure and supporting release processes, suggesting and making improvements where possible Supporting the clear communication and frequent update of incident status to other teams and customers Providing technical expertise and input to establish the risk tolerance of products and services Supporting the maintenance of services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health The skills youll need We re looking for someone with strong knowledge of reliability systems thinking and experience of software engineering. You ll need experience of using a data driven and scientific approach to fact finding. We ll also look for financial services knowledge, and the ability to identify wider business impact, risk and opportunity, and make connections across key outputs and processes. Youll also need: Good knowledge and experience of programming languages Experience in Java and Microservices development or support along with databases such as Postgres and oracle Strong knowledge of SRE concepts with certification in ITIL preferred Experience of Splunk, DX-APM and observability tools Strong communication skills with the ability to proactively engage with a wide range of stakeholders