The Core Engineering - Site Reliability Engineering - Associate - Birmingham
Core
Build, run, and maintain high-performing, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems for compliance, risk, and critical business functions.
Role type
Associate Site Reliability Engineer
Builds
Production services supporting compliance, risk, and financial planning
Domain
Financial services / Cloud infrastructure
Required skills
Java, Python, Perl, Linux, distributed systems, observability, automation, incident management, capacity planning
Preferred skills
Automated testing, algorithms, data structures, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry, AWS, Azure, GCP, relational databases, Hadoop, big data technologies
Technologies
Java, Python, Perl, Linux, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Hadoop
Responsibilities
Proactively manage production services by measuring and monitoring availability, capacity, latency, and overall system health. Shape software before go-live through system design consulting, capacity planning, operational readiness reviews, and launch reviews. Scale and evolve systems by driving changes that improve reliability, capacity, performance, and operational resilience. Practice sustainable incident management through clear escalation, effective remediation, and a blameless postmortem culture. Identify and implement improvements to system behavior, controls, observability, and monitoring tools. Define and maintain service level indicators (SLIs), service level objectives (SLOs), and error budgets to quantify and manage service reliability. Engineer automation and self-healing capabilities to reduce toil and improve operational efficiency.
Seniority
Associate, 3-4 years experience