About the Role
DevOps/SRE engineer position in financial services, London (Canary Wharf).
Responsibilities
•Lead production incident management, major incident response, root-cause analysis, and blameless postmortems.
•Embed reliability practices across the software development lifecycle and define KPIs, SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, and error budgets.
•Drive AI-assisted incident, problem, change, and risk management.
•Automate operational processes, recovery, failover, scaling, and self-healing capabilities.
•Implement Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment strategies.
•Build and improve observability across metrics, logs, and traces.
•Design resilient, highly available platforms with fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and multi-region capabilities.
•Investigate complex platform failures, performance bottlenecks, and systemic reliability issues.
Requirements
•Strong experience in SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineering within large-scale, regulated environments.
•Expertise in on-premise infrastructure and AWS cloud-native architecture.
•Hands-on experience with AWS services including EKS/ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Aurora, and S3.
•Observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK/EFK, CloudWatch, or Datadog.
•Strong incident management, production support, and operational resilience experience.
•Proficiency in CI/CD, Git, scripting, automation, and IaC tools such as Python, Go, Ansible, and Terraform.
•Demonstrable experience applying agentic AI to observability, incident management, and automated recovery.
•Strong understanding of networking, security, Linux/Unix, and reliability engineering.
•Experience supporting or developing applications using Java, C#/.NET, Python, and databases including SQL Server, Sybase, and PostgreSQL/Aurora.
Nice to Have
•Financial services or other data-intensive, regulated industries.
•Mission-critical applications and multi-region AWS architectures.
•Chaos engineering, resilience testing, AIOps, and intelligent automation frameworks.
Conditions
•Start: ASAP
•Duration: 6 months
•Location: Canary Wharf (2-3 days on site per week)
•Rate: Up to £650/day, Inside IR35
