CareerPlan

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Nottingham, England, GBFull-time2026-08-28 → 2026-11-10

Core

Lead the establishment of SRE foundations, observability standards, and operational readiness for new and existing platforms in the Markets and Risk Intelligence division.

Role type

Senior hands-on IC Site Reliability Engineering Lead

Builds

Reliability foundations, monitoring/alerting solutions, observability tooling, and resilient system patterns

Domain

Financial markets infrastructure, cloud-native platforms, and risk intelligence

Required skills

SRE principles (SLOs, error budgets), Kubernetes, AWS (EKS, ECS, EC2), Linux administration, observability platforms (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry), cloud security, cloud cost optimization, incident management

Preferred skills

Microsoft Azure, multi-cloud/hybrid environments, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation), vector databases, RAG architectures, Generative AI/LLM platforms

Technologies

AWS, EKS, ECS, EC2, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry, Terraform, CloudFormation, Claude, Amazon Bedrock

Responsibilities

Lead establishment of SRE foundations for new projects including environments, monitoring, and alerting; Collaborate with Architecture and Engineering to embed reliability, scalability, and security into system design; Define and implement observability standards and guidelines; Design monitoring solutions to reduce toil and improve visibility; Drive reliability improvements through incident reduction and performance tuning; Partner with Security teams on compliance and risk management; Mentor engineers and shape engineering standards

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership presence