Site Reliability Engineer Manager - Leeds or Manchester

FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Private Cloud SRE Manager to work for our client within the financial services sector. This is initially a 12-month contract with the potential to extend and become permanent. It will be a hybrid role based in Leeds or Manchester.

Our client is looking for a passionate and experienced Engineer to join the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team to help run and evolve one of the group’s most critical platforms. You’ll be a key contributor to the stability, performance, and scalability of services, supporting the organisations digital transformation and long-term technology vision. 

You’ll work actively with container platforms, VMware infrastructure, and observability tooling, ensuring their services are resilient and efficient. You’ll also lead and participate in post-mortems, drive automation, and continuously improve the platform through engineering-led solutions. This role also involves working in Agile environments, collaborating across multiple teams and disciplines to deliver high-quality outcomes at pace. 

Responsibilities

• Enhance and support a wide range of platform technologies, including VMware infrastructure, container platforms and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, OpenShift), databases, and applications
• Manage environments and support CI/CD pipelines using Infrastructure as Code
• Improve observability using tools such as Dynatrace, ensuring proactive monitoring and alerting
• Lead and contribute to post-mortems to identify and implement long-term fixes aligning with organisations long term objectives
• Troubleshoot complex issues across the platform stack, including infrastructure, networking, storage, databases, and applications
• Work in Agile teams, collaborating with engineers, architects, and product owners across the organisations
• Identify and implement automation opportunities to reduce manual effort and improve operational efficiency
• Oversee and contribute to stability, scalability and performance of services, ensuring use of engineering best practices

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience as a Site Reliability Engineer within financial services
• Strong understanding of DevOps principles, including Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD
• Experience with container platforms and orchestration such as Docker, Kubernetes and OpenShift
• Hands-on experience with VMware technologies in a production environment
• Familiarity with observability platforms, such as Dynatrace and experience with either Linux or Windows operating systems
• Proven ability to troubleshoot across a broad range of platform technologies
• A mindset focused on continuous improvement and reducing manual steps through automation

Desirable

• Experience with automation tools and APIs for infrastructure management
• Exposure to configuration management tools such as Ansible and Puppet 
• Leadership or mentoring experience in technical teams
• Certifications in VMware or any major cloud provider such as Azure, GCP and AWS
• Background in system administration or software engineering with a strong aptitude for learning cloud-native practices

Why join us

• Career coaching, mentoring and access to upskilling throughout your entire FDM career
• Assignments with global companies and opportunities to work abroad
• Opportunity to re-skill and up-skill into new areas, develop non-linear career paths and build a skillset within your field
• Annual leave and work-place pension

About FDM 

We are a business and technology consultancy and one of the UK's leading employers, recruiting the brightest talent to become the innovators of tomorrow. We have centres across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, and a global workforce of over 2,500 Employees. FDM has shown exponential growth throughout the years, firmly establishing itself as an award-winning employer and is listed on the FTSE4Good Index. 

Diversity and Inclusion  

FDM Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial or local laws.