Site Reliability Engineer

Paritas Recruitment

Glasgow, UK

1 day ago

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Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Working hours

Regular working hours

Job source

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Tech stack

Amazon Web Services Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Amazon S3 Bash Shell Continuous Integration Data as a Services Information Engineering Disaster Recovery Identity and Access Management Python (Programming Language) Reliability Engineering Scripting

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Snowflake Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Cloudformation Infrastructure Automation Frameworks Data Management Cloudwatch Terraform Data Pipelines Databricks

Job description

We are recruiting an AWS Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to support a cloud-native data platform for a major international financial services organisation. The platform is built on AWS, with core components including Snowflake and Databricks, and underpins critical analytics and data services used across the business.

This role focuses on reliability engineering, automation, observability, and resilience. You will work closely with data engineering and platform teams to ensure the platform is scalable, highly available, and operationally robust in a regulated, high-availability environment., * Design, build, and maintain automation for infrastructure provisioning, platform operations, and incident response using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD

Lead resiliency and disaster recovery (DR) planning, including DR testing, failure scenarios, and recovery validation across AWS and data platform services
Define and manage SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs for critical data pipelines and platform services, using error budgets to drive reliability improvements
Build and operate comprehensive observability solutions (metrics, logs, traces, alerting) across AWS, Snowflake, and Databricks workloads
Partner with data engineering and platform teams to embed reliability-by-design into architecture and delivery
Perform root cause analysis (RCA) on incidents and drive continuous improvement to reduce operational toil
Own and drive resolution of incidents and service requests raised by platform consumers, identifying recurring issues and automating fixes to improve reliability and user experience

Requirements

Strong practical experience applying Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, including SLO/SLI/SLA design and error budgets
Proven production experience with AWS (e.g. EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch)
Hands-on experience with automation and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK)
Experience building and operating observability and monitoring solutions
Scripting experience in Python and/or Bash
Exposure to data platforms such as Snowflake and/or Databricks