Site Reliability Engineer
Capital Markets Gateway5 months ago
London, United KingdomMid Level
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain monitoring and observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana Stack, Datadog, and OpenTelemetry.
- Define and implement SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets and develop dashboards, alerts, and reports.
- Design actionable alerting strategies, integrate alerting with Jira, and establish runbooks for on-call teams.
- Analyze performance metrics, identify bottlenecks, and support load testing and capacity planning.
- Develop automation and tooling for failover, configuration management, monitoring, and proactive issue resolution.
- Collaborate with software engineering, operations, infrastructure, and cross-functional teams to improve reliability and incident response.
- Promote SRE principles and practices across the company.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or in a similar role.
- Proficiency with logging, metrics, and tracing frameworks including Datadog, Loki, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry.
- Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Azure, and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
- Strong programming and scripting skills in Python and Bash.
- Proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes, Linux-based systems, networking, and security principles for containerized applications.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, along with effective communication and collaboration abilities.
- Experience with PostgreSQL monitoring and optimization is optional or nice to have.
Benefits
- Equity.
- Unlimited PTO, with 28 days including bank holidays plus unlimited additional paid leave.
- Comprehensive benefits, premium life and income protection, private medical and dental insurance, and an Employee Assistance Program.
- Pension contributions.
- Hybrid work environment, initially remote until the office setup is complete.
- Education reimbursement and continuous learning opportunities.
- Employee referral bonus and parental leave.
Tech Stack
AzureBashDatadogDockerElasticsearchGrafanaGraphQLHarnessIstioKubernetesLinux.NETPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonReactRedisTerraformTypeScript
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
About Capital Markets Gateway
Capital Markets Gateway (CMG) builds a software platform for equity capital markets that connects underwriters and institutional investors to manage ECM workflows, orders, and data in one system. The privately held company, founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, provides real-time deal intelligence and analytics used by 25 investment banks and 135 asset managers representing over $40 trillion in AUM. Its CMG XC product supports decisions, compliance, and communication across the IPO and follow-on offering lifecycle.