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# Platform SRE Engineer

- **Company:** FT Select
- **Location:** UK
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Azure, Disaster Recovery, Prometheus, Datadog, Grafana, Splunk, New Relic (SaaS), Dynatrace, Service Stack
- **Published:** October 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://ftselect.com/jobs/platform-sre-engineer/

## About the Role

* 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.

## Description

* 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.


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