Chester, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, United Kingdom Hybrid / WFH Options
Ascendion
Job Title: Platform Engineer/SRE Work Location: Bromley/Chester, UK (Hybrid – 3 days in a week) Job Description: We are seeking a Platform Engineer/SRE with a strong and diverse technical background. The ideal candidate will possess hands-on development experience along with SiteReliabilityEngineering (SRE) expertise. This role requires a proactive individual … who can lead by example, address platform stability issues, and develop resilient and reliable systems. Key Responsibilities: Provide hands-on technical leadership in platform engineering initiatives. Ensure platform stability and resilience by identifying and resolving reliability issues. … Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable and robust system solutions. Key Skills Required: Strong development experience in Java (primary skill). SiteReliabilityEngineering ( SRE ) experience. Proficiency with Kafka , Mule , and Oracle Database . Ability to work at a managerial level while remaining hands-on with technical tasks. Nice to Have: Knowledge of Payments systems More ❯
Chester, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Ascendion
Job Description: We are seeking a Platform Engineering Manager with a strong hands-on background in Java development and SiteReliabilityEngineering (SRE). The ideal candidate will have a broad technical skillset across Java, Spring, MuleSoft, Kafka, and Oracle DB, and must be capable of leading platform stability efforts while contributing directly to development. Experience … and implement improvements. Architect and develop resilient backend systems primarily using Java, Spring, Kafka, and Oracle. Implement best practices for observability, incident response, and operational excellence in line with SRE principles. Drive automation and self-healing mechanisms across platform components. Provide technical leadership and hands-on coding as needed. Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues, conducting root cause analysis and … platform engineering experience. Strong Java expertise with deep understanding of backend design patterns and frameworks (Spring Boot preferred). Proven experience in SiteReliabilityEngineering (SRE), including monitoring, alerting, and incident management. Hands-on experience with Kafka, MuleSoft, and Oracle DB. Familiarity with performance tuning, system design, and distributed computing concepts. Experience with CI/CD More ❯
Overview Join us as a Senior PostgreSQL SRE at Barclays where you'll effectively monitor and maintain the bank's critical technology infrastructure and resolve more complex technical issues, whilst minimizing disruption to operations. In this role you will assume a key technical leadership role. You will shape the direction of our database administration, ensuring our technological approaches are innovative … and aligned with the Bank's business goals. You will guide high-impact projects to completion, collaborate with management, and implement SRE practices using software engineering and database administration to address infrastructure and operational challenges at scale. To be successful as a Senior PostgreSQL SRE, you should have: Strong experience as a Principal Level Database Administrator, with a focus … on PostgreSQL A Proven track record of implementing and leading SRE practices across large organizations or complex teams. Extensive hands-on experience on Containers and Kubernetes In depth experience with DevOps automation tools such as Code versioning (git), JIRA, Ansible, database CI/CD tools and their implementation. Some other highly valued skills may include: Expert expertise with scripting languages More ❯