Vice President - Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) - The Core Engineering - Birmingham

Location: Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global is a global investment banking, securities, and investment management firm providing financial services to corporations, financial institutions, governments, and individuals.

What you will do

• Establish service level objectives, service level indicators, and error budgets with engineering leadership.
• Architect highly available, fault-tolerant, and self-healing systems with product development teams.
• Build automation, tooling, and self-service capabilities to reduce operational toil.
• Improve production readiness through load testing, performance tuning, capacity forecasting, chaos engineering, and reliability reviews.
• Lead complex, multi-system production incidents and facilitate blameless post-mortems.
• Design sustainable on-call models, escalation paths, and balanced pager responsibilities.

Requirements

• Strong proficiency in at least one major programming language, such as Java, Python, or Node.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools including Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
• Deep knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, service meshes, and ingress controllers.
• Advanced experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure and resilient cloud-native architectures.
• Experience with observability technologies for distributed tracing, logging, and metrics, plus automated testing and Linux-based development.
• 7–10 years of experience and preferably a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of networking protocols, VPCs, load balancing, database query performance tuning, algorithms, data structures, and software design.
• Interest in financial markets and technology.

Culture & Benefits

• Blameless culture focused on learning from failures and improving systems.
• Opportunities for professional and personal development through training and firmwide networks.
• Benefits, wellness, personal finance, and mindfulness programs.
• Commitment to diversity, inclusion, and reasonable accommodations during recruitment.