Site Reliability Engineering Lead

Hybrid in London·Added today (last checked 9 Nov)

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Our summary

Work mode: Hybrid, London
Experience: Senior level
Commute: Cycle to work and season ticket loan

Skills

Requirements

What we're looking for

Proven technical experience in SRE, DevOps or Platform Engineering in large-scale, regulated environments
Deep technical expertise in both on-premise and AWS cloud-native architecture and systems design
Experience with AWS services such as EKS/ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Aurora and S3
Knowledge of database and data platforms: SQL Server, Sybase, PostgreSQL (including Aurora)
Proficiency in Unix/Linux, Java, C#.NET and Python application support and development
Strong implementation experience with observability tooling and frameworks for metrics, logs and traces (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK/EFK stacks, CloudWatch, Datadog or similar)
In-depth experience with incident management and production operations
Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git, automation, scripting and infrastructure-as-code tools (Python, Go, Ansible, Terraform)
Demonstrable application of agentic AI engineering in observability, incident management and automated recovery
Strong understanding of networking, security and reliability engineering principles

Nice to have

Experience in financial services or other data intensive, regulated industries
Familiarity with multi-region AWS architecture, high-availability and mission-critical applications
Knowledge of chaos engineering practices and resilience testing
Exposure to AIOps and intelligent automation frameworks

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

EPAM Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
Protection benefits including life assurance, income protection and critical illness cover
Private medical insurance and dental care
Employee Assistance Program
Competitive group pension plan
Cyclescheme, Techscheme and season ticket loans
Various perks such as free Wednesday lunch in-office, on-site massages and regular social events
Learning and development opportunities including in-house training and coaching, professional certifications, and courses
If otherwise eligible, participation in the discretionary annual bonus program
If otherwise eligible and hired into a qualifying level, participation in the discretionary Long-Term Incentive (LTI) Program

*All benefits and perks are subject to certain eligibility requirements

The role

EPAM is looking for a highly technical Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Lead to support a client in the financial services sector. You will help design and deliver highly available, scalable and resilient platforms for mission-critical financial systems, with a strong focus on AWS, observability, automation and production reliability.

What you'll do

Design highly available, scalable and resilient platforms across on-premises and AWS environments
Implement observability across metrics, logs and traces using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK/EFK, CloudWatch or Datadog
Define SLIs, SLOs, SLAs and error budgets for critical services
Lead major production incidents, technical investigations and stakeholder communication
Drive blameless postmortems and turn findings into measurable reliability improvements
Build automation for incident response, scaling, failover and recovery using CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code practices
Apply resilient architecture patterns, including multi-region failover, active-active designs, circuit breakers and bulkheads
Establish runbooks, playbooks and AI-assisted processes for incident, problem, change and risk management
Use agentic AI and intelligent automation to improve observability, incident management and automated recovery
Collaborate with engineering, product and business stakeholders to improve operational readiness and platform resilience

Hiring process

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Conversation with Talent Acquisition
With a Talent Acquisition Specialist
An introductory conversation with a Talent Acquisition Specialist.
Technical interview
Video call
An online technical interview.
Interview with the hiring manager
With a hiring manager
A general interview with the hiring manager.
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