Foundation Engineering - SRE Platforms - Site Reliability Engineer - Associate - London

• Strong programming ability in one or more modern languages - Java or Go strongly preferred - with experience building maintainable automation beyond simple scripts.
• Good understanding of networking, messaging, distributed systems, data structures, algorithms and software design fundamentals.
• Hands-on experience with observability tooling, including metrics, logging, tracing and dashboarding platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK or OpenTelemetry.
• Proven ability to investigate production issues, identify root causes and deliver durable engineering fixes that improve system behaviour and reduce repeat incidents.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical issues into clear updates for technical, business and senior stakeholders., * Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with public cloud platforms - GCP preferred - cloud-native architecture, Kubernetes, microservices or service mesh technologies.
• Familiarity with relational databases and/or data-intensive platforms
• Experience supporting mission-critical production systems, preferably in a financial services environment.
• Experience implementing progressive delivery approaches such as canary releases, blue/green deployments, feature flags or chaos/game days.
• Experience developing AI-assisted operations capabilities, such as alert enrichment, anomaly detection, triage support or runbook automation.

Key SRE Competencies

• Reliability engineering: SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, incident reduction and service health.
• Production excellence: monitoring, alerting, observability, runbooks, handoffs and operational readiness.
• Engineering mindset: automation, coding, debugging, testing, scalable design and systems thinking.
• Incident leadership: calm execution, escalation discipline, clear communication and blameless learning.

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