Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Fintech): Taking ownership of the Route to Live team to ensure resilience, scalability, and innovation in delivering microservices and cloud-native infrastructure with an accent on security, vulnerability management, and CI/CD integration. Focus on partnering with engineering and data teams to troubleshoot pipeline challenges while establishing reliability standards and technical documentation.

Location: Hybrid (must be based in or able to commute to Edinburgh or Leeds office 40% of the time)

Salary: £70,929 - £78,810

Company

A major financial services group focused on building the future of banking through innovative technology and inclusive people practices.

What you will do

• Manage Run and Build activities for cloud-native estates within the Data Centre of Excellence.
• Identify and remediate security vulnerabilities within cloud environments and CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with data science, engineering, and product teams to resolve deployment and infrastructure challenges.
• Create and maintain operational runbooks, upgrade plans, and incident playbooks.
• Mentor team members and provide technical guidance through walkthroughs and reusable templates.
• Track project risks and deliverables using JIRA and Confluence.

Requirements

• Proven experience in SRE, DevOps, or Cloud Engineering.
• Strong proficiency in cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Deep technical knowledge of Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tools.
• Solid understanding of cloud security principles and vulnerability management.
• Excellent communication and technical documentation skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
• Annual bonus scheme based on group performance.
• 30 days of holiday plus bank holidays.
• Comprehensive parental leave and menopause health support.
• Flexible working options, including hybrid work and job share.
• Access to share schemes and various lifestyle/wellbeing discounts.