Windows Site Reliability Engineer
Windows Site Reliability Engineer | £110K | Hybrid | London
Overview:
A leading global investment bank is seeking a skilled Windows Site Reliability Engineer to join their London-based Technology team. This is a senior-level leadership role focused on driving platform reliability, automation strategy, and infrastructure modernisation across mission-critical banking systems. This is an excellent opportunity to join an investment banking powerhouse.
Role and Responsibilities:
Overview:
A leading global investment bank is seeking a skilled Windows Site Reliability Engineer to join their London-based Technology team. This is a senior-level leadership role focused on driving platform reliability, automation strategy, and infrastructure modernisation across mission-critical banking systems. This is an excellent opportunity to join an investment banking powerhouse.
Role and Responsibilities:
- Lead Platform Engineering and SRE strategy across the organisation
- Build scalable, self-service, and resilient infrastructure platforms
- Drive Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD adoption, automating manual tasks
- Define SLOs and optimise system performance, latency, and scalability
- Lead root cause analysis and remediate technical debt
- Partner with development teams to improve testing, releases, and deployments
- Shape cloud and hybrid migration strategies
- Ensure regulatory, audit, and security compliance
- Act as senior escalation point for high-severity incidents
- Identify cost and efficiency improvements; deputise for senior leadership
- Deep expertise in Microsoft Windows Server internals
- Advanced knowledge of Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, LDAP, and Kerberos
- Extensive experience tuning low-latency, enterprise-scale systems
- Strong background in SRE, DevOps, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code principles
- Advanced scripting and development capability (PowerShell, Python, C#)
- Clustering, high-availability, replication, and disaster recovery expertise
- Experience with Git, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, and TeamCity
- Strong understanding of security hardening (CIS) within regulated environments
- Deep knowledge of performance monitoring, system internals, and optimisation techniques
- Experience working within financial services or other regulated industries
- Kubernetes and Docker orchestration
- Major cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP)
- Nutanix HCI and VMware ESX
- Enterprise databases (SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase ASE, MongoDB, Snowflake)
- Enterprise monitoring tools (Splunk, Netcool)
- Circa £110,000 + Excellent Package
- London / Hybrid x3 days onsite
- Flexible working considered