Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Knutsford (hybrid, 2 days per week in office). A leading Financial Services firm is recruiting for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to become part of a newly formed Core SRE Team that will establish a Centre of Excellence to enhance and promote SRE best practices., As a key hire, you will raise awareness and drive adoption of SRE methodologies within various teams. This is a hands-on engineering role where you will design, build, and optimise automation frameworks, observability tools, and incident response mechanisms. You will act as a trusted advisor, providing strategic guidance and consultative support to help teams improve reliability, scalability, and efficiency., * Availability, performance, and scalability of systems and services through proactive monitoring, maintenance, and capacity planning.

• Resolution, analysis and response to system outages and disruptions, and implementation of measures to prevent similar incidents from recurring.
• Development of tools and scripts to automate operational processes, reducing manual workload, increasing efficiency, and improving system resilience.
• Monitoring and optimisation of system performance and resource usage, identifying bottlenecks, and implementing best practices for performance tuning.
• Collaboration with development teams to integrate best practices for reliability, scalability, and performance into the software development lifecycle, and work closely with other teams to ensure smooth and efficient operations.

• Proficiency in Programming and Scripting - languages such as Python, Powershell, or Go for automating routine tasks and system deployments.
• Incident Management and Troubleshooting - ability to manage incidents effectively, troubleshoot issues swiftly, and perform root cause analysis to prevent future incidents.
• Systems Engineering and Automation - understanding of operating systems, networking, and cloud infrastructure; proficiency in automation tools for maintaining system reliability at scale.
• Influential Communication Skills - ability to communicate effectively with team members and stakeholders to drive alignment and foster a collaborative environment for SRE practices.
• Knowledge of Cloud Computing - familiarity with cloud platforms and services as infrastructure moves to the cloud.