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
• We're offering this role at associate level

What you'll do
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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 live production services, Improve root cause analysis and identification of mitigations

The skills you'll need
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We're looking for someone with strong knowledge of reliability systems thinking and experience of configuring and tuning standard observability tooling. You'll need at least five years of experience of taking on the support of new application and major releases into production. 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.


You'll also need:

• Experience in supporting Java and Microservice applications
• Experience on observability tool such as Splunk and DX-APM
• Experience of utilising tools and technology across the software development lifecycle
• Experience in database such as Oracle and Postgres
• Strong communication skills with the ability to proactively engage with a wide range of stakeholders