Site Reliability Engineer

Role: Site Reliability Engineer within Quant / Research 📍 Location: London (Hybrid) 💰 Comp: Up to £250,000 + exceptional guaranteed bonus + full package 🏆 Company: Award-winning Quant Fund, founded by Computer Scientists Why this stands out: • Tech Lead is not only an absolute/distinguished beast but one of the nicest people…probably ever! • Engineers report to engineers - no red tape & truly collaborative • High autonomy, greenfield projects, modern/evolving tech stack • Culture that values techies and truly supports them • Small, flat structured, elite team = real & visible impact • Beautiful offices with all the expected perks like food, gyms etc What you will be working on (a full job spec is available): • Working in a team taking real ownership of reliability, availability & performance across critical applications/production systems • Understanding the end-to-end flow across applications & how they support the business • Scaling the automation, monitoring & observability tools for high-throughput platforms • Investigating complex systems issues and delivering greenfield solutions • Driving root-cause analysis rather than simply fixing symptoms • Working closely with Engineers, Quants & Researchers • Evangelising the SRE mindset across engineering teams • Innovating and automating! Ideal background: • Minimum 2+ years' experience in SRE / Site Reliability / Platform Engineering / DevOps type position • A degree of 2.1 or higher/equivalent from a reputable university • Strong Python • Comfortable with testing, source control, build systems and CI/CD • Experience with modern infra technologies ie. Kubernetes, Terraform and AWS • SQL and any database experience • Solid experience around Linux (CLI) & host-level TCP/IP networking • Personality! Note that the client is happy to wait for notice periods, non-competes and can pay out bonuses. Please apply with your updated CV ASAP as this is an urgent requirement.