Join us as a Site Reliability Engineer
- In this key role, you’ll support the improvement of non-functional and operational characteristics such as availability, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, security, incident response, and capacity planning of our products and services
- You’ll enjoy significant stakeholder interaction, working in collaboration with engineers to ensure a principled approach to deliver change in a safe and secure way
- This is a chance to join an inclusive team with a collaborative ethos and a commitment to innovation and professional development
- We're offering this role at associate level
What you'll do
As our Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll work alongside colleagues and feature team members to meet defined service level objectives and continually improve systems and environments. You’ll proactively contribute new ideas and innovations to meet short term and longer term goals whilst at the same time balancing and managing risk.
You’ll also be accountable for the day-to-day health of both production and non-production environments, responding to incidents as required.
A typical day will involve:
- Providing structure and supporting release processes, suggesting and making improvements where possible
- Supporting the clear communication and frequent update of incident status to other teams and customers
- Providing technical expertise and input to establish the risk tolerance of products and services
- Supporting the maintenance of services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health
The skills you'll need
You'll need five years of overall experience with strong knowledge of reliability systems thinking and experience of software engineering. You’ll need experience of using a data driven and scientific approach to fact finding. We’ll also look for financial services knowledge, and the ability to identify wider business impact, risk and opportunity, and make connections across key outputs and processes.
You'll also need:
- Experience in Java and Microservices development or support along with databases such as Postgres and oracle
- Strong knowledge of SRE concepts with certification in ITIL preferred
- Experience of Splunk, DX-APM and observability tools
- Strong communication skills with the ability to proactively engage with a wide range of stakeholders
Hours
45
Job Posting Closing Date:
30/04/2025
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What We Do
We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate.
As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these.
Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence.
One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025.
We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.
