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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Site Reliability Engineer - Data - **Company:** Capital on Tap - **Location:** London, UK - **Salary:** £82,486.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Applications Architecture, Microsoft Azure, Databases, Continuous Integration, Data Architecture, Data Infrastructure, Data Transformation, Data Systems, Data Warehousing, Github, Python (Programming Language), Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, Nginx, Octopus Deploy, Online Transaction Processing, Performance Tuning, Windows PowerShell, Reliability Engineering, SQL Databases, Datadog, Scripting, Cloud Monitoring, Snowflake, Containerization, Kubernetes, Cloudflare, Data Management, Terraform, Data Pipelines, Serverless Computing, Docker, Golang - **Published:** July 31, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5821412830 ## About the Role * Experience managing public cloud environments. * Proficient in contributing to IaC technologies involving expertise in writing, managing, and optimising infrastructure with tools such as Terraform. * Experience using CI/CD tools, building pipelines, templates and troubleshooting. * Proficient with containerisation technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker. * Experience working with a cloud monitoring solution. * Proficiency in at least one scripting language such as Python, PowerShell, Go. * Great communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively. * Experience with Data Warehouses or similar. * Experience with Snowflake or other DBMS platforms. * Expert in database fundamentals and SQL. ## Description At Capital On Tap, we run a hybrid embedded SRE model - We aim to work closely with the teams to provide them the best support. As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) you will help ensure our platforms are fast, reliable, and scalable. You'll design, build, and monitor systems, preventing issues before they happen. You will be embedded in the Data teams, being Data Platform who works alongside business teams, assisting with the ingestion and exports, model deployments and data warehouse management, and Database Engineering who are responsible for the maintenance and enhancement of the OLTP platform, based around SQL Server and MongoDB clusters, whilst also assisting software developers with data architecture, data transformation and performance tuning. What you'll be doing ️ * Manage and automate resources in Azure, Datadog, NGINX & Cloudflare. * Develop, deploy and monitor Kubernetes and Serverless resources. * Build, manage, and evolve IAC using Terraform, Helm and Go CRDs. * Improving systems, processes, and technologies; consulting with stakeholders to enhance platform performance. * Design and maintain comprehensive monitoring and alerting strategies using Datadog. * Getting involved in new application architecture & design processes. * Designing solutions to reduce toil, automate repetitive tasks and streamline workflows to reduce manual work and boost team productivity. * Creating SLIs and SLOs; increasing application visibility * Align with the Product team on SLAs and core service objectives * Collaborating with core foundational teams to build and maintain reusable, automated solutions. * Optimising CI/CD pipelines and developer workflows using Azure DevOps, Github, Octopus Deploy, MirrorD, and Flux. * Leading incident response; taking an active part in communications, investigations, remediation and post-mortems to protect customer experience. * Help design and build systems that improve the reliability, resiliency and maintainability of our data systems and products. * Provide assistance and support to other teams focused on database related applications methodologies and system resources. Our Values & Culture * Just Pilot: We never settle for "good enough". We pilot new ideas fast, ask questions to figure it out, and scale quickly. * Why Not Today? Fast is as slow as we go - speed and simplicity gives us a competitive advantage. * Be a Buddy: We tap in from day one to help the team, we do the right thing even if it's hard. * Owners and Dates: We don't chase people. 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