Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Spend

What you’ll do

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll work closely with product teams in Spend to deliver and maintain scalable, reliable cloud infrastructure in support of key product initiatives. Aligned to the roadmap, you’ll lead on infrastructure design and delivery for complex, high-risk projects such as launching new services, executing global data centre migrations, and modernising data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement cloud infrastructure for new services and roadmap initiatives.
• Embed with development teams to drive reliability, performance, and operational readiness.
• Lead incident response, observability, and automation across critical systems.
• Own team-level SLOs, runbooks, and DevOps performance metrics.
• Collaborate with central DevOps and security teams to ensure compliance and resilience.

Who you are

We're looking for people who meet the minimum qualifications for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.

Minimum qualifications

• 6+ years in an SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure-focused engineering role.
• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), Kubernetes, observability, and incident response.
• Able to lead SRE strategy for large-scale, cross-functional projects.
• Strong experience supporting production systems with high availability and compliance requirements.
• Proven ability to work closely with developers and guide reliability best practices.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in a fintech or similarly regulated industry.
• Familiarity with data streaming, analytics pipelines, or financial data systems.

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