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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Job Posted: 15 days ago

Salary: £ 75,000 - 95,000 / Annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Glasgow

Expire in: 13 days

Job Description

Role Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer
 Location: Knutsford or Glasgow - Hybrid (2 days per week onsite)
 Role Category: Permanent

Overview:
 We're recruiting for an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to drive reliability, scalability and performance across critical banking systems. This role combines hands-on SRE engineering with technical leadership, with a strong focus on observability, automation, continuous improvement and optimisation.

Responsibilities:
 * Build and maintain reliable, scalable and secure infrastructure platforms and solutions.
 * Apply SRE and software engineering practices to improve reliability, availability and performance.
 * Monitor systems, manage incidents and lead complex troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
 * Develop automation using programming and scripting to reduce manual intervention and improve efficiency.
 * Develop and improve observability, monitoring, instrumentation and performance capabilities.
 * Use data and reliability metrics to drive continuous improvement and optimisation.
 * Lead technical discussions, blameless retrospectives and problem-solving activities.
 * Work with architects, engineers and stakeholders to define requirements and deliver effective solutions.
 * Provide technical leadership, mentoring and guidance while helping to drive SRE maturity across teams.

Required Skills:
 * 5+ years' experience in SRE, Production Engineering, Platform Engineering or a related discipline.
 * Strong practical experience with SRE principles and production environments.
 * Strong programming/scripting skills, such as Python, Go, Java, C# or Bash.
 * Proven experience in incident management, troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
 * Strong observability and monitoring experience.
 * Experience with AWS, Azure or GCP.
 * Good understanding of operating systems, networking, cloud infrastructure and automation.
 * Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code.
 * Strong communication and technical leadership skills.

Desirable Skills:
 * SLOs, SLIs, SLAs and error budgets.
 * Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic/ELK or OpenTelemetry.
 * Kubernetes, containers and distributed systems.
 * Performance and resilience engineering.
 * Experience driving SRE maturity across engineering teams.
 * Financial services or banking experience.

This is an excellent opportunity for a Senior SRE to combine hands-on engineering with technical leadership and help improve reliability, observability and performance across critical banking systems.

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