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Site Reliability Engineer
£43,500 - 73,500
Robert Walters
St Martin's Courtyard, Glasgow
£43,500 - 73,500
Requirements
Must:
- 5+ years in SRE, production, or platform engineering with hands-on experience operating large-scale production systems.
- Strong Python automation and scripting, CI/CD pipeline development, and modern software delivery practices.
- Experience with cloud data platforms (Snowflake preferred), relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server), and troubleshooting across application, platform, and data layers.
- Knowledge of change and incident management in enterprise environments.
- Excellent communication and collaboration across teams.
- Monitoring, alerting, observability, infrastructure-as-code, Unix/Linux systems, basic networking skills.
- Familiarity with semantic data modeling, analytics platforms, and BI tools (Tableau, Power BI) is a plus.
- Exposure to Snowflake Cortex or GenAI/LLM tools in production is a plus.
- Agile delivery experience (sprints, backlog refinement) and knowledge of ITSM processes is desirable.
- Experience supporting AI-enabled or analytics-driven platforms at scale in regulated enterprises is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Ensure reliability, availability, and performance of large-scale data and analytics platforms across DEV, QA, and PROD.
- Apply SRE principles to design resilient services, define SLIs/SLOs, and drive continuous reliability improvements.
- Automate workflows and tooling (primarily Python) to reduce operational toil and improve repeatability.
- Build and manage CI/CD pipelines for data pipelines, cloud platforms, semantic models, and services.
- Support release and change management, ensuring safe deployments, validation, and rollback readiness.
- Serve as a senior escalation point for incidents, performing root cause analysis and preventive remediation.
- Design and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability for platform components and data workloads.
- Operate and optimize cloud-based data platforms (e.g., Snowflake) for stability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
- Support deployment and reliability of AI-enabled services, including monitoring, failure handling, and runbook creation.
- Collaborate with engineering and product teams to ensure AI/analytics features are production-ready and safely integrated.
- Contribute to operational documentation, runbooks, and platform operating model improvements.
Description
We are Robert Walters, the worlds most trusted talent solutions business, delivering recruitment, outsourcing, and talent advisory services globally. Our client is a global financial services firm that specializes in wealth management and complex market navigation, emphasizing long-term relationships and innovative solutions. This is a contract role for a Site Reliability Engineer based in Glasgow, employing a hybrid work setup with three days in the office. We offer an inclusive environment that values diverse skills and backgrounds.
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