Site Reliability Engineer

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• We require at least 8+ years of experience.
• We require senior SRE experience on distributed systems and batch/intraday workloads in a production environment.
• We require strong Python skills and experience with Python-based applications.
• We require proven agentic AI experience, including tool integration, guard rails, evaluation approaches, and measurable impact such as toil reduction, MTTR reduction, or alert reduction.
• We require demonstrated process optimization ability, including removing steps and handoffs, standardizing workflows, and implementing lightweight controls with metrics.
• We require strong Linux and troubleshooting fundamentals across application, system, and network layers.
• We require exposure to cloud technologies.
• We require experience working across mixed estates, including on-prem VMs and cloud, with some Kubernetes exposure for operational monitoring and reruns.
• We require familiarity with the Athena ecosystem or similar platforms such as SecDB or Quartz.
• We require experience in banking, finance, trading, or market risk domains.
• We require trade lifecycle, market risk, or risk platform experience.

Responsibilities:

• We focus predominantly on automation, optimization, and process re-engineering using AI for the Market Risk Platform.
• We work on distributed systems and batch/intraday production workloads.
• We automate and streamline operational processes to reduce toil and improve reliability.
• We integrate AI tools with appropriate guard rails and evaluation methods.
• We improve operational metrics such as MTTR, alert volume, and manual handoffs.
• We support mixed environments across on-premises VMs, cloud, and Kubernetes where needed for monitoring and reruns.

Technologies:

• AI
• Cloud
• Support
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• Network
• Python
• Rails
• DevOps
• Java

More:

We are hiring an experienced SRE for our Market Risk Platform in the banking, finance, and trading domain. The role is onsite five days per week and may be offered as either a full-time employee or contractor engagement. Compensation is listed at £70–80k for FTE or £450–550 per day for contract work inside IR35.

last updated 32 week of 2026