Site Reliability Engineering Lead – Financial Services
Posted 3 days ago by Alexander Ash Consulting
£200,000 Per year
Inside
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Site Reliability Engineering Lead for a large financial services organization will oversee the design, engineering, and operations of SRE platforms, focusing on automation, observability, and resilience. This director-level role requires extensive experience in regulated financial services technology and leadership in SRE or related fields. The position involves managing production incidents and working within a hybrid on-premise and AWS environment. Candidates should possess a strong technical background in cloud-native architecture and incident management.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and scale the Site Reliability Engineering function.
- Drive intelligent automation, observability, and resilience across the organization.
- Manage production incidents from frameworks to resolution.
- Design and improve SRE platforms and teams.
- Work in a hybrid on-premise / AWS-based environment.
Key Skills:
- 15+ years’ experience in regulated financial services technology production environments.
- Proven leadership experience in SRE or related fields (platform engineering, DevOps, etc.).
- Deep technical experience in cloud-native AWS and on-premise systems architecture.
- Strong incident management and observability experience for large scale systems.
- Intelligent automation / Agentic AI experience preferred.
- Excellent AWS services, data platforms, software engineering, CI/CD, IaC experience.
- Degree educated or higher from a leading academic institution.
Salary (Rate): £200,000.00 yearly
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Site Reliability Engineering Lead – Financial Services
A large financial services organisation is evolving their technology production operations and are looking for a director-level Site Reliability Engineering Lead, to play a critical role in the design, engineering, operations, and improvement of the SRE platforms, teams, and organisation. You will be responsible for leading and scaling the SRE function, driving intelligent automation, observability, and resilience, across the organisation, and leading on production incidents, from frameworks to resolution. You will work in a hybrid on-premise / AWS-based environment and have deep understanding of cloud-native architecture and systems design.
You should apply for this role if you are/have:
- 15+ years’ experience in regulated financial services technology production environments
- Proven leadership experience in SRE or related fields (platform engineering, DevOps etc.)
- Deep technical experience in cloud-native AWS and on-premise systems architecture
- Strong incident management and observability experience for large scale systems
- Intelligent automation / Agentic AI experience preferred
- Excellent AWS services, data platforms, software engineering, CI/CD, IaC, experience
- Degree educated or higher from a leading academic institution
This is a £800-900 PAYE role (exclusive of employers NI/tax). Initially for six months. Based London, hybrid working.