Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Market Risk Platform

London (5 days onsite) | Contract | Banking/Finance/Trading£450- £500 day

Overview

We are hiring experienced Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) to support a Market Risk platform within a leading financial services environment.

This is an engineering-led transformation role, focused on automation, reliability, and AI-driven operational improvement rather than BAU support.

Success is measured by:

• Reduced operational toil
• Faster recovery (MTTR reduction)
• Safer, faster change delivery
• Increased automation and self-service
• Improved platform reliability

Key Responsibilities

Automation Engineering (Core)

• Build production-grade Python automation for operational workflows
• Automate environment checks, dependency validation, reruns, restarts, and drift remediation
• Deliver self-service tools with proper audit, rollback, and safety controls (idempotency, dry-run, approvals)

Process Re-engineering (Core)

• Redesign incident, change, release, and recovery processes
• Convert runbooks into automated workflows
• Remove manual handoffs and operational friction
• Define KPIs: toil, MTTR, alert volume, change failure rate

Agentic AI (Core)

• Build agentic workflows for diagnostics, remediation, and orchestration
• Implement guardrails, human-in-the-loop controls, and evaluation frameworks
• Productionise AI automation with monitoring and feedback loops

Observability

• Improve monitoring, logging, and system visibility to enable automation at scale

Required Skills

• 8+ years SRE/production engineering experience
• Strong Python (automation/tooling focus)
• Experience with distributed systems in production environments
• Strong Linux troubleshooting (app/system/network layers)
• Hybrid infrastructure exposure (on-prem + cloud)
• Kubernetes experience (ops/monitoring/reruns)
• Strong background in automation and process optimisation
• Athena ecosystems

Agentic AI (Essential)

• Proven experience with agentic AI or intelligent automation systems
• Tool integration, guardrails, evaluation, and measurable production impact (toil/MTTR reduction)

Desirable

• Banking/Finance/Market Risk experience
• Familiarity with Athena ecosystem or similar (SecDB, Quartz)
• Exposure to trading, risk, or regulatory platforms

About the Role

A high-impact SRE role in a Market Risk trading environment, focused on eliminating operational toil through automation, AI, and reliability engineering at scale.

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