Site Reliability Engineer
£90,000 – £120,000 / yr base salary
Posted 23 Sep 2026
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- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Remote
- Contract
- Full-time
| Base salary | £90,000 – £120,000 / yr |
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Location: Remote First. Hiring in Europe, UK, NY, and Canada.
Permanent | Full-time
Compensation: £90K - £120K
Our client is a fast-growing financial technology company that provides high-performance integration and hosted connectivity services to global trading venues and financial institutions. By taking on complex connectivity challenges, the client enables financial market participants to operate efficiently without overtaxing their internal resources.
A Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) is being sought to join a multi-disciplinary infrastructure team. This team manages a broad spectrum of technical operations—from automated server and cloud provisioning to network architecture and vendor integrations. The ideal candidate will thrive in an automation-first culture, possess a blend of system administration and network engineering expertise, and embrace shared accountability across the entire environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Automated Infrastructure Provisioning: Build and scale automated provisioning pipelines for servers and networks across both physical data centers and cloud environments (AWS, GCP).
- Continuous Delivery: Develop and evolve Continuous Delivery (CD) pipelines to automate the deployment of software, server setups, and network switches.
- Vendor & Partner Interaction: Act as a technical representative to engage with hardware vendors, telecom providers, and financial institutions via phone and email.
- Procurement & Support: Manage third-party procurement, negotiate vendor agreements, purchase hardware, and enable remote workforce setups.
- Shared Technical Ownership: Collaborate within a multi-disciplinary team, sharing full-environment responsibility while actively learning and sharing technical knowledge.
Requirements
Essential Qualifications & Experience:
- Automation & Configuration Management: Proven hands-on experience using infrastructure automation tools such as Ansible.
- Software Development / Scripting: Functional programming abilities in a language of choice with the capacity to build usable scripts or software programs from scratch.
- Systems & Network Engineering: Solid combined background in system administration and network engineering concepts.
- Vendor Management: Demonstrated experience negotiating with third-party vendors, managing purchasing, and overseeing service delivery.