Lead SRE Engineer, Post Trade Solutions

The successful candidate for the Site Reliability Engineer role, SRE, will be reporting to the Head of Client Digital Technology, Post Trade. They will develop an AWS cloud-based infrastructure supporting the Equities matching and confirmation service. The SRE will be part of an Engineering team provisioning the required platform, using Infrastructure as Code.

Additionally, they will be providing automated solutions for the provisioning of the CI/CD and technical operational support for the project.

This great opportunity requires a candidate to take Pride/Ownership in their work and play a critical role in growing the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain infra for the platform, focusing on availability, stability and reliability.
• Respond to incidents, be on call, and identify the root cause analysis of incidents.
• Support complex application stacks across multiple AWS-based cloud environments.
• Cost optimisation of the platform.
• Provide insight and guidance across the engineering of SRE standard methodologies and technologies.
• Automate the deployment of cloud-based resources to ensure high availability, performance, scalability and security.
• Excellent understanding of CI/CD methodologies with good hands-on experience.
• Enable product teams through implementation of deployment pipelines and deployment strategy from dev to prod in a cloud-based environment.
• Support the development team in defining their processes, running proof of concepts, using standard methodologies and selecting best-fit solutions.

Key Skills, Experience and Behaviours

• At least 5+ years as a lead engineer with strong hands-on build experience in AWS Cloud ecosystem i.e. EKS, being able to troubleshoot issues.
• Strong Linux skills and good knowledge in Network and Data management.
• Excellent understanding of IaC principles, being hands-on using Terraform.
• Extensive experience in developing/managing CI/CD pipelines using Gitlab.
• Experience with container technologies and tooling such as Docker, Kubernetes, Helm etc.
• Experience deploying apps to Kubernetes.
• Experience using code analysis and security tools such as Semgrep and BlackDuck.
• Experience with scripting languages such as Groovy, Bash or Python.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring tools such as Datadog etc.
• Successful Agile delivery experience.
• Ability to use a wide range of open-source tools.

The successful candidate will:

• Deliver high quality work analysis, design and build servicing business requirements.
• Proactively drive a culture of continuous improvement, good communication, and innovation.
• Help set the vision and strategy for the area, in conjunction with other key customers.
• Coach the rest of the team to further the breadth and depth of their knowledge and skills, and ensure they move to adopt standard processes for development (including code quality), testing and deployment.
• Greet new challenges with passion and provide new viewpoints and inspiration for the team.
• Act as a technology leader within the firm, participating in group technology initiatives and discussions.
• Have excellent engineering skills, communication skills, can-do behaviour and be highly collaborative. Always positively encouraging the team.