7 days ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Build and own the reliability platform used by engineering teams across IG’s hybrid estate.
- Implement monitoring, observability, distributed tracing, SLOs, error budgets, and burn-rate tracking.
- Maintain operational readiness through automated deployments, blue/green and canary releases, zero-downtime patching, automated rollback, and traffic rerouting.
- Engineer self-healing capabilities and run controlled chaos experiments across AWS.
- Build automation tools and CI/CD pipelines while contributing production-quality Java or Python code.
- Contribute to IG’s SRE AI agent for incident investigation and reliability review.
- Author SRE standards, observability guidance, SLO methodology, error-budget policy, and Production Readiness Review checklists.
- Mentor SREs, developers, and Reliability Champions on reliability and production-engineering practices.
- Support system design, capacity planning, architectural reviews, and observability improvements.
- Lead incident response, facilitate blameless post-incident reviews, maintain the Lessons Register, and drive remediation actions to closure.
Requirements
- Extensive experience with OpenTelemetry, including spans, metrics, traces, and context propagation, plus production use of Honeycomb, Datadog, Dynatrace, or Grafana.
- Experience instrumenting Java or Python services directly and writing production-quality Java and/or Python.
- Proven ability to design meaningful SLIs, establish error budgets, configure multi-window burn-rate alerts, and measure reliability with development teams.
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines with blue/green or canary releases, automated rollback, safety mechanisms, and DORA metrics integration.
- Required Kubernetes experience with EKS, AKS, or GKE; HashiCorp Nomad experience is advantageous.
- Solid understanding of cloud networking and infrastructure as code, with Terraform preferred.
- Strong distributed-systems knowledge, including circuit breakers, bulkheads, idempotency, graceful degradation, and load-shedding.
- Production on-call experience, blameless PIR facilitation, contributing-factor analysis, and remediation tracking; PagerDuty and ServiceNow familiarity is helpful.
- Experience designing and executing hypothesis-driven chaos experiments with blast-radius controls and gap-to-impact-tolerance analysis using AWS FIS, Gremlin, or equivalent.
- Track record in high-throughput production environments and improving reliability and performance at scale.
- Strong troubleshooting, systems-thinking, communication, collaboration, mentoring, and automation skills.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and a Flexible Benefits Package equal to 12% of salary.
- Private medical cover, life insurance, and gym-membership contributions.
- 25 days of holiday plus a birthday day and two additional volunteering days, for 28 total days; option to buy or sell holiday days.
- Tailored development programs, mentoring, career progression, and unlimited LinkedIn Learning access.
- Global and local onboarding, employee-led inclusion networks, and support for ESG initiatives.
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental pay and leave, and additional support for parents.
About IG Group
IG Group is a London‑headquartered, publicly traded online brokerage founded in 1974. It builds multi‑asset trading platforms for retail and professional clients, offering financial spread betting, CFDs, forex, share dealing, and crypto, with revenues from spreads, commissions, and financing. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and operates globally under the IG brand, serving traders across Europe, Asia‑Pacific, and North America.