Platform SRE Engineer

• Validate backup and restore processes for Tier 0/Tier 1 platforms.
• Improve and test recovery runbooks.
• Identify and close observability and alerting gaps.
• Support service dependency mapping.
• Carry out resilience and failover testing.
• Implement or improve rate limiting and circuit breakers.
• Contribute to disaster recovery evidence.
• Support cyber recovery exercises with Engineering Leads and SOC.

• Platform engineering or SRE background with a resilience focus.
• Experience with observability tooling (e.g. Azure App Insights, Datadog, Dynatrace, Prometheus/Grafana, Splunk, New Relic).
• Hands-on with backup, restore, and disaster recovery processes in cloud environments.
• Familiarity with operational resilience frameworks (DORA, PRA/FCA requirements desirable).
• Experience writing and testing recovery runbooks.
• Comfortable working across multiple platform teams with varying technology stacks.
• Financial services or other regulated industry experience desirable.

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