Senior SRE Engineer

Senior SRE Engineer | Azure, Observability & Reliability Engineering | Platform Transformation in Financial Services

• Location: London (Hybrid, typically 3 days onsite)
• Permanent, Full-time
• Salary: £80k–£90k + bonus + benefits
• Visa sponsorship: Not available

The Role

You’ll join as the first dedicated SRE hire , with responsibility for establishing SRE practices across a live Azure-based platform and a new strategic platform being brought into service.

The role is focused on reliability, observability, incident management, resilience, and automation . You’ll help define how services are measured and operated, introducing practical improvements around SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, monitoring, and service ownership.

This is a hands-on role for someone who has done this before and can bring structure, prioritise well, and build an SRE capability in a pragmatic way.

Non-Negotiables

• Site Reliability Engineering in production environments
• Azure cloud environments in enterprise-scale businesses
• SLO / SLI / error budget design and implementation
• Observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry or similar)
• Incident leadership across Sev1 / Sev2 environments
• Disaster recovery, resilience testing, RTO / RPO
• Terraform infrastructure as code
• CI/CD pipelines and engineering enablement
• Strong scripting with PowerShell, Bash or Python
• Experience improving reliability in hybrid estates (cloud + IaaS)
• Ability to introduce new ways of working and build an SRE practice from scratch

They are looking for someone with a strong Azure background, but the priority is proven SRE capability and the ability to apply it effectively.

What You’ll Work With

• Azure platform engineering
• Azure Container Apps / cloud-native services
• Terraform infrastructure as code
• Prometheus monitoring
• Grafana dashboards
• OpenTelemetry tracing
• Azure DevOps pipelines
• GitHub Actions CI/CD
• Windows Server and Linux estates
• Service Bus, Event Hubs and Kafka
• Incident management, runbooks, failover and resilience testing

Nice to Haves

• Financial services or regulated environment experience
• FCA / PRA operational resilience exposure
• Payments or FX platform experience
• Chaos engineering
• FinOps or cloud cost awareness
• Kubernetes exposure

Kubernetes knowledge is useful, but not essential.

Why Join / Projects

• Establish the SRE capability from the ground up
• Define and implement SLIs, SLOs and error budgets
• Improve observability across platforms and services
• Lead incident response and post-incident improvements
• Drive resilience, failover and automation initiatives
• Support the move toward a modern, reliability-first platform

You’ll play a key role in shaping how reliability is engineered across both the current platform and a new strategic platform being brought into production.

Employee Benefits

• Pension
• Private healthcare
• Training and certification support

Senior SRE Engineer | Azure, Observability & Reliability Engineering | Platform Transformation in Financial Services