Senior Engineer of Site Reliability Engineering
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Summary
Senior SRE for LSEG's Risk Intelligence Data Platforms in Nottingham, keeping business-critical cloud-native data services available, scalable, and secure across EMEA. Day to day: managing incidents and SLOs/error budgets, driving automation and observability, and providing 24x7 on-call coverage on AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD tooling.
- We are seeking an accomplished and forward-thinking Engineer to join our Risk Intelligence organisation as the Senior Engineer – Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) for the Risk Intelligence Data Platforms (RIDP) Product Line. Based in Nottingham, UK, this role will be part of the reliability engineering function for critical Data platforms applications supporting the EMEA region
- The successful candidate will be accountable for ensuring the availability, scalability, performance, and security of business-critical platforms while driving operational resilience and service excellence across a complex, cloud-native technology landscape
- You will lead reliability strategies, incident management, automation initiatives, and continuous improvement efforts, while partnering closely with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to align technology outcomes with organisational objectives
- Support 24×7 reliability operations for RIDP services, ensuring uptime, performance, and compliance across Applications
- Maintain SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets; maintain reliability scorecards and drive improvements through engineering backlogs
- Manage critical incidents and problems with appropriate urgency
- Participate in off-hour maintenance windows as needed to support a highly available application Communicate effectively with Design Engineering, Client Support, Management, and Software Development groups
- Document policies and procedures as they are defined and changed
- Drive automation-first mindset across incident response, deployment, compliance, and observability
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to embed non-functional requirements and secure-by-design principles into delivery pipelines. Being accountable for resolving the outage via workaround or permanent fix
- Ensuring all administration and reports are maintained and up to date, including contacts information, technical diagrams, post major incident reviews
- Work closely with Problem Management to identify recurring or high-impacting incidents that require further analysis and long-term solutions
- Exceptional critical thinking and problem-solving ability
- Provide 24x7 on-call support within a team rotation
- You will combine deep expertise in Site Reliability Engineering, cloud operations, and modern software delivery practices with a passion for building high-performing engineering teams
- 3+ years in production operations, SRE, or DevOps roles
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; ability to influence across technical and business domains
- Strong analytical mindset with a focus on measurable outcomes and continuous improvement
- Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
- Familiarity with observability platforms (Datadog, BigPanda, OpenTelemetry)
- Strong understanding of SRE principles (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, incident response)
- Experience working with identity platforms and/or fraud detection systems
- Minimum 2 + years of working knowledge on AWS Services – Lamda, ECS, ALB, RDS, CloudWatch Insights, etc
- Hands-on experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker)
- Calm and structured under pressure
- Strategic thinker with a bias for action and accountability
- Passionate about engineering excellence, automation, and reliability
- Strong collaborator who builds trust across teams and geographies
- Committed to continuous learning and knowledge sharing