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# Site Reliability Engineer

- **Company:** Tempest Vane Partners
- **Location:** Greater London, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Airflow, Bash Shell, Cloud Engineering, Distributed Systems, Monitoring of Systems, Reliability Engineering, Ansible, Prometheus, Software Engineering, Data Streaming, System Availability, Grafana, Software Troubleshooting, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Puppet, Terraform, Golang
- **Published:** September 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2856358388-site-reliability-engineer

## About the Role

Successful candidates are likely to demonstrate experience across several of the following areas:

 * Strong scripting or software engineering capability using Python, Golang, Bash, or similar
 * Deep understanding of Kubernetes and container-based infrastructure
 * Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or equivalent automation tooling
 * Knowledge of hybrid infrastructure and distributed systems environments
 * Familiarity with observability and monitoring technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Jaeger
 * Exposure to data streaming or workflow technologies including Kafka or Airflow
 * Strong troubleshooting capability with a focus on automation and reliability engineering

## Description

This opportunity sits within a technology-driven organisation where engineering is fundamental to business performance. The successful candidate will work on highly scalable infrastructure supporting large-scale research, analytics, and trading environments across an international platform.

The position offers significant exposure to modern cloud-native engineering, distributed systems, automation, and platform reliability initiatives within a fast-moving and technically sophisticated environment.

The Opportunity

The incoming engineer will play a key role in the design, improvement, and automation of critical infrastructure systems across both cloud and on-premise environments.

Working closely with infrastructure, development, and platform teams, the role will focus heavily on scalability, resilience, observability, and operational efficiency.

Core responsibilities will include:

 * Engineering and maintaining enterprise-scale Kubernetes environments
 * Supporting the evolution toward cloud-native and distributed architectures
 * Driving automation initiatives across infrastructure and operational workflows
 * Developing and promoting Infrastructure-as-Code best practices
 * Enhancing platform stability, availability, and system performance
 * Contributing to monitoring, observability, and incident response capabilities
 * Partnering with global engineering teams on platform improvements and technical delivery


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