SRE Engineer

Bloomberg Terminal
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
11 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
£ 120K

Job location

Charing Cross, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Azure
Bash
Linux
Disaster Recovery
Failover
Github
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Python
Windows Server
Powershell
Reliability Engineering
Prometheus
Azure DevOps Pipelines
Grafana
Kubernetes
Kafka
Terraform

Job description

You'll join as the first dedicated SRE hire, with responsibility for establishing SRE practices across a live Azure-based platform and a new strategic platform being brought into service., Why Join / Projects

  • Establish the SRE capability from the ground up
  • Define and implement SLIs, SLOs and error budgets
  • Improve observability across platforms and services
  • Lead incident response and post-incident improvements
  • Drive resilience, failover and automation initiatives
  • Support the move toward a modern, reliability-first platform

You'll play a key role in shaping how reliability is engineered across both the current platform and a new strategic platform being brought into production.

Employee Benefits

  • Pension
  • Private healthcare
  • Training and certification support

Requirements

  • Observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry or similar)
  • Incident leadership across Sev1 / Sev2 environments
  • Disaster recovery, resilience testing, RTO / RPO
  • Terraform infrastructure as code
  • CI/CD pipelines and engineering enablement
  • Strong scripting with PowerShell, Bash or Python
  • Experience improving reliability in hybrid estates (cloud + IaaS)
  • Ability to introduce new ways of working and build an SRE practice from scratch

They are looking for someone with a strong Azure background, but the priority is proven SRE capability and the ability to apply it effectively.

What You'll Work With

  • Azure platform engineering
  • Azure Container Apps / cloud-native services
  • Terraform infrastructure as code
  • Prometheus monitoring
  • Grafana dashboards
  • OpenTelemetry tracing
  • Azure DevOps pipelines
  • GitHub Actions CI/CD
  • Windows Server and Linux estates
  • Service Bus, Event Hubs and Kafka
  • Incident management, runbooks, failover and resilience testing

Nice to Haves

  • Financial services or regulated environment experience
  • FCA / PRA operational resilience exposure
  • Payments or FX platform experience
  • Chaos engineering
  • FinOps or cloud cost awareness
  • Kubernetes exposure

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