Site Reliability Engineer; SRE - Financial Wellbeing

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Financial Wellbeing

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Join our Financial Wellbeing Platform as its first Site Reliability Engineer and apply your expertise of the full software development lifecycle that benefit customers in financial difficulty.

The Recoveries & Application Management Lab Team within the Financial Wellbeing Platform work across the platform to provide specialised skills and services that allow them to deliver services to our customers. The Recoveries & Application Management Lab are building new systems and solutions. The role offers the chance for someone to engage and share their experience, serving as a mentor in the team's decision-making processes related to site reliability that are effective and efficient.

• Create documentation that details the establishment of the SRE function within the platform, supported by procedures that outline the guidelines to be followed through the incorporation of existing documentation.
• Provide a framework in which to operate the cloud systems under.
• Lead the transition to cloud infrastructure and improve observability across systems.
• Identify and eliminate toil through automation.
• Manage incidents and post-mortems to improve service reliability.
• Mentor engineers and support team development.
• Collaborate with Product Owners to balance operational and development priorities.
• Balance the demands of the business with stability and scalability requirements to reach a successful and scalable outcome.

• Proven experience as a Site Reliability Engineer in cloud environments (GCP or AWS).
• Understanding of SRE principles including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and toil reduction.
• Strong scripting and infrastructure-as-code (IaaC) skills (Terraform, Harness, Git Hub).
• Demonstrable experience in the Agile ways of working that focuses on delivering customer value and applying the Agile mindset; familiarity with tools like Jira.
• Ability to lead incident response and drive service improvements.
• Strong collaboration and mentoring skills.
• Nice-to-have:
  Azure cloud environment experience, containerisation and orchestration tools (Docker, Jenkins, Git Hub, Terraform), secure programming practices, secure file transfer protocols, risk remediation, and audit actions.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

This is a once in a career opportunity to help shape your future as well as ours.
Join us and grow with purpose.

• Mid-Senior level

• Full-time

• Finance

• Banking