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Site Reliability Engineer
Capital Markets Gateway
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- Hybrid
- 4 months ago
- Incident Response
- AI
- Test Automation
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Loki
- Datadog
- OpenTelemetry
- Incident Management
- Jira
- Load Testing
- Configuration Management
- Azure
- IaC
- Terraform
- Python
- Bash
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Linux
- PostgreSQL
- Istio
- Elasticsearch
- Redis
- GitHub
- Terragrunt
- React.js
- TypeScript
- .NET
- GraphQL
- Equity
- Unlimited time off
4 months ago
Monitoring & Observability
- Design, implement, and maintain monitoring and observability solutions using tools like Prometheus, Grafana Stack (Loki/Grafana/Tempo/Alert Manager), Datadog, and OpenTelemetry. Â
- Define and implement SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets to measure system reliability. Â
- Develop and optimize dashboards, alerts, and reports for system performance and business metrics.Â
Alerting & Incident Management
- Design actionable alerting strategies to minimize noise and improve MTTR. Â
- Integrate alerting systems with Jira.Â
- Establish and refine runbooks for on-call teams to handle alerts efficiently.Â
- Empower teams to ensure observability coverage and incident response practices. Â
Performance Optimization
- Analyze system performance metrics, identify bottlenecks, and implement optimizations to improve system efficiency, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. Â
- Help conduct load testing and capacity planning to ensure systems can handle peak traffic loads. Â
Automation and Tooling
- Identify opportunities for automation and develop tools to streamline operational processes, such as fail-over, configuration management, and monitoring. Â
- Implement monitoring and alerting systems within automations to detect and resolve issues proactively. Â
Collaboration and Communication
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, operations, and infrastructure teams, to understand system requirements, provide technical guidance, and drive solutions. Â
- Communicate effectively to stakeholders about system changes, incidents, and improvements. Â
- Foment and spread SRE principles and practices across company.
Qualifications
- Proven experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or similar role. Â
- Proficiency in logging, metrics, and tracing frameworks (DataDog, Loki, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry). Â
- Experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred) and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform). Â
- Strong programming and scripting skills (Python, Bash). Â
- Proficiency in containerization technologies and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes). Â
- Understandingof Linux-based systems, networking, and security principles related to containerized applications. Â
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, with a passion for identifying and resolving complex technical issues. Â
- Excellent communication and collaboration abilities. Â
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment. Â
- Experience with PostgreSQL monitoring and optimization (Optional/Nice to have). If you're passionate about building resilient financial systems, optimizing observability at scale, and solving real-world reliability challenges in capital markets, we’d love to have you on our team!  Â
Our Tech Stack
- Azure as an infrastructure provider. We are reviewing secondary cloud options. Â
- Docker + Kubernetes for microservice orchestration using Istio service mesh.Â
- PostgreSQL for relational db, ElasticSearch for indexing, Redis for caching. Â
- DataDog, Grafana and OpenTelemetry for observability.Â
- GitHub for our Version Control and CI (with our own runners).Â
- CD: Harness and FluxCD. Â
- Terraform and Terragrunt as IaaC.Â
- Python and bash for scripting infrastructure.Â
- React - We’re all in on React – we maintain multiple single-page React apps.
- TypeScript – 99% of our codebase is TypeScript. Â
- Latest .NET version for our backend services. Â
- GraphQL - Our standard for API communication is GraphQL served by our DotNet Back-End.
Our Values
- We innovate with purpose Â
- We focus on outcomes vs. output Â
- We believe diverse and inclusive teams fuel innovation Â
- We are humble yet candid Â
- We do right by the customerÂ
What We Offer
EquityÂ
Unlimited PTO (28 days including bank holidays + unlimited additional paid leave)Â
Comprehensive benefits program managed by Globalization PartnersÂ
Premium life and income protectionÂ
Top private medical and dental insuranceÂ
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)Â
Pension contributionsÂ
Hybrid work environment (initially remote until office setup is complete)Â
Education reimbursementÂ
Continuous learning opportunitiesÂ
Employee referral bonusÂ
Parental leaveÂ
Site Reliability Engineer · Capital Markets Gateway