Site Reliability Engineer

The Site Reliability Engineer will own the reliability, availability and operational health of mission-critical systems supporting a global market environment. You will combine strong Linux and infrastructure expertise with an automation-first approach to keep production stable. The role also involves supporting regulatory risk exposure across trading and risk platforms.

Our client is a leading global financial services organisation operating mission-critical market infrastructure across multiple regions. They are known for a rigorous, engineering-led culture that prioritises stability, data integrity and regulatory excellence. The team works at scale on platforms that support trading and risk operations around the clock.

Responsibilities

• Manage and evolve Linux-based infrastructure to ensure high availability and resilience across environments.
• Design, implement and maintain monitoring and alerting to detect issues early and reduce mean time to detect.
• Lead incident response, drive root cause analysis and implement durable preventive fixes.
• Build automation using Python or shell scripting to eliminate manual operational toil.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines that support safe, repeatable releases.
• Perform capacity planning and resilience engineering to meet performance and recovery targets.
• Partner with risk and compliance stakeholders to support reporting and controls tied to regulatory requirements such as FRTB, CCAR, CCR and VaR.

Requirements

• Proven experience in site reliability engineering or production operations.
• Strong working knowledge of Linux systems and infrastructure management.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring, alerting and incident response in production.
• Proficiency in Python or shell scripting for automation.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling and deployment practices.
• Demonstrated reliability ownership and evidence of automation delivering measurable improvements.
• Mature production support practices, including on-call and post-incident review.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Skills

Linux systems and infrastructure management, Site reliability engineering / production operations, Monitoring, alerting, and incident response, Python or shell scripting for automation, CI/CD tooling and deployment practices, Capacity and resilience engineering for high-throughput systems, Regulatory risk frameworks (FRTB, CCAR, CCR, VaR), Global, multi-region market infrastructure