Senior Site Reliability Engineer

SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:

We’re seeking a Site Reliability Engineer with experience in hybrid AWS environments, ideally within regulated or high-compliance settings. You’ll be responsible for improving system reliability, reducing failure domains, and implementing best practices across infrastructure automation, CI/CD, observability, and platform engineering, while enabling teams to deliver stable, scalable solutions.

Responsibilities

• Contributes actively to technical domains such as Site reliability, cloud best practices and DevOps.
• Actively identifies and reduces failure domains, designs and builds resilient systems, and strives to reduce adverse effects of an outage.
• Strong contributor to the objectives of the cross functional team (Architects, Engineers, Business Analysts, Scrum Master, Security, etc.)
• Builds software to minimize effort and business impact during maintenance and failures.
• Synthesize business and technical requirements to deliver business value.
• Mentor engineers on the team to improve technology and apply best practices.
• Encourages and enhances inter-team execution and collaboration

What you'll do:

• Contribute to site reliability, cloud engineering, and DevOps practices, improving platform stability and scalability.
• Work hands-on within a hybrid AWS environment, ideally in PCI-DSS / financial services settings.
• Design and build resilient systems, reducing failure domains and minimising downtime.
• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines to support efficient and reliable delivery.
• Automate AWS workloads, including infrastructure provisioning and configuration deployments.
• Enhance observability across environments (monitoring, logging, alerting).
• Troubleshoot and optimise low-latency, Java-based applications within an SRE context.
• Apply SRE principles to improve reliability, performance, and incident response.
• Align solutions with the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, business-aligned solutions.
• Build automation to reduce manual effort and improve maintainability.
• Translate business and technical requirements into scalable solutions.
• Mentor team members and promote best practices and knowledge sharing.
• Drive collaboration and delivery excellence across teams.
  
  

Your expertise:

• Must have at least 7+ years hands-on experience in a DevOps / SRE role.
• Hands on work experience in a hybrid (AWS) cloud environment preferably in the financial sector with PCI-DSS compliant systems.
• Implementing CI/CD pipeline automation across functional areas
• AWS workload automation (provisioning infrastructure and custom software configuration rollout)
• Implementing Observability for hybrid and cloud-based environments
• Strong understanding of networking principles and protocols
• Troubleshooting low latency & Java based applications in a SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) context
• Proven experience with Site Reliability Engineering principles and practices
• Understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework and practices

Technology and Tooling:

Essential:

• AWS Services: EC2, RDS (Postgres & Oracle EE), EBS, EKS, ECS, Load Balancing, Secrets Manager, KMS, Service Catalog
• AWS CDK
• Observability tooling: AWS CloudWatch, Splunk / AppDynamics, ELK
• CI/CD platforms (e.g., Harness, Azure DevOps, GitLab or equivalent)
• Operating Systems: Linux and Windows Server

Preferred:

• Python scripting
• AWS CloudFormation
• Ansible
• Bash scripting

Optional:

• Zabbix monitoring
• Keycloak
• ActiveMQ
• WebLogic 14c
• Nginx

Certifications: (Beneficial)

• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator (CloudOps Engineer)
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate