Lorien
Site Reliability Engineer
Hybrid Working – Edinburgh – 2 days a month on site.
Financial Services
Lorien's leading banking client is looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join an established engineering team responsible for supporting and improving the reliability, availability and performance of critical production services. This is an operationally focused role where you'll work closely with engineering teams to ensure systems remain resilient, observable and highly available.
The ideal candidate will have a strong production engineering or SRE background, be comfortable working within live environments, with good skills of working with Grafana, Open Telemetry, Splunk, and knowledge of APIs.
This role is based in Edinburgh.
This role will be Via Umbrella.
Working in a Hybrid Model of 2 days a month on site.
Key Experience
- Support and maintain production systems, ensuring high levels of availability and reliability.
- Respond to, troubleshoot and resolve production incidents, taking ownership through to resolution.
- Focus on incident response, service restoration and operational excellence (approximately 70% of the role).
- Improve system observability, monitoring and alerting capabilities.
- Work closely with development teams to enhance the reliability and operability of applications.
- Analyse production issues and identify opportunities for automation and continuous improvement.
- Participate in root cause analysis and implement preventative measures to reduce recurring incidents.
- Support cloud-based infrastructure and operational tooling as the organisation transitions from VMware to AWS..
Key Skills
- Approximately 6+ years' experience within Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering or a similar operational engineering role.
- Strong hands-on experience supporting live production environments.
- Excellent troubleshooting and incident management skills.
- Experience with observability and monitoring platforms, including:
- Grafana
- Open Telemetry
- Splunk
- Good understanding of cloud platforms (AWS experience preferred).
- Strong knowledge of APIs and API troubleshooting.
- Experience working within modern distributed systems and production environments.
- Ability to quickly become productive within an existing engineering team.
Highly Desirable
- Experience with Apigee API Management.
- Experience supporting Java-based microservices.
- Knowledge of VMware infrastructure.
- Experience supporting organisations migrating from VMware to AWS.
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Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG – The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
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