Senior Platform SRE (AWS/Kubernetes)

Location: City of London, United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global is a FTSE 100 fintech operating across five continents, serving more than 1.4 million customers and processing billions of dollars in transactions.

What you will do

• Build and own the reliability platform across on-premises HashiCorp Nomad and AWS.
• Implement OpenTelemetry-based monitoring, distributed tracing, SLOs, error budgets, and burn-rate tracking.
• Establish operational readiness through automated deployments, blue/green releases, zero-downtime patching, and self-healing automation.
• Design and execute controlled chaos experiments across AWS and improve resilience against severe failure scenarios.
• Build CI/CD automation and contribute to AI-powered tooling for incident investigation and reliability reviews.
• Lead incident learning through blameless post-incident reviews, remediation tracking, mentoring, and SRE standards development.

Requirements

• Extensive production experience with OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, and observability platforms such as Honeycomb, Datadog, Dynatrace, or Grafana.
• Experience designing meaningful SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, multi-window burn-rate alerts, and reliability measurement practices.
• Experience with CI/CD safety mechanisms, including blue/green and canary releases, automated rollback, and DORA metrics.
• Required experience with Kubernetes, including EKS, AKS, or GKE; knowledge of cloud networking and Terraform-based infrastructure is expected.
• Production-quality coding in Java and/or Python, plus strong knowledge of distributed systems, fault tolerance, incident management, and chaos engineering.
• Experience in high-throughput production environments and the ability to collaborate with development teams, write technical standards, and mentor engineers.

Nice to have

• Experience with HashiCorp Nomad, PagerDuty, ServiceNow, AWS FIS, Gremlin, or equivalent tools.
• Background in financial services, trading platforms, or other mission-critical systems.
• Experience with high-throughput, low-latency environments and the SRE Guild or community-of-practice model.

Culture & Benefits

• Tailored development programs, mentoring opportunities, clear career progression, and unlimited LinkedIn Learning access.
• Flexible benefits package worth 12% on top of salary, private medical cover, life insurance, and gym membership contributions.
• 25 days of holiday plus a birthday day and two additional volunteering days, with the option to buy or sell holiday days.
• Enhanced parental pay and leave, employee-led inclusion networks, and support for ESG initiatives.