Senior Enterprise Site Reliability Engineer- London

• Designing, implementing and embedding an enterprise-wide SRE operating model, including SLIs, SLOs and error budgets.
•  Establishing SRE processes, governance and tooling from the ground up for a large-scale banking environment.
• Leading platform reliability initiatives and partnering with engineering, architecture and operations teams.
• Automating infrastructure, deployments and operational workflows to reduce toil and improve service stability.
• Implementing enterprise observability standards including logging, metrics, distributed tracing and intelligent alerting.
• Conducting blameless incident reviews and driving systemic improvements across services and platforms.
• Supporting cloud strategy and ensuring reliability best practices across AWS/Azure/GCP environments.
• Leading resilience engineering initiatives including chaos testing, failover scenarios and DR validation.
• Producing high-quality governance, risk and resilience materials for senior stakeholders.
• Mentoring engineering teams to adopt SRE best practices and shift towards a reliability-first culture.
• Supporting audits, regulatory reviews and technical risk assessments.
• Performing analysis related to system performance trends, service gaps and reliability improvements. 

• At least 7 years’ experience in SRE, production engineering or large-scale platform engineering roles.
• Proven experience building an SRE function from scratch within a bank or regulated financial institution.
• Strong experience with cloud environments (AWS, Azure or GCP) and infrastructure-as-code tooling.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, containers, service mesh technologies and CI/CD platforms.
• Expertise with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Datadog or OpenTelemetry.
• Strong scripting or development skills in Python, Go, Bash or similar.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills, including senior stakeholder management.
• Ability to influence engineering teams and drive cultural change.
• Strong organisational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Experience in a banking or financial services organisation is essential.
• Knowledge of operational resilience frameworks, risk controls and audit requirements is desirable.

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 3,500 Consultants. 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.

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