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Site Reliability Engineering Lead

EPAM Systems

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

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Overview

In this SRE Lead role, you design highly available, scalable platforms for mission-critical financial systems, with a focus on AWS, observability, automation and production reliability. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to improve operational readiness and resilience across on-premises and cloud environments. You lead major incidents, drive blameless postmortems and translate findings into measurable improvements. This is a hands-on, impact-driven role that blends advanced engineering with strategic reliability initiatives.

Pay / Benefits
  • ESPP
  • life insurance
  • income protection
  • private medical insurance
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • pension plan
Responsibilities
  • Design scalable, resilient platforms across on-premises and AWS
  • Implement comprehensive observability (metrics, logs, traces) with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK/EFK, CloudWatch or Datadog
  • Define SLIs, SLOs, SLAs and error budgets for critical services
  • Lead production incidents and postmortems, coordinating stakeholder communication
  • Build automation for incident response, scaling, failover and recovery via CI/CD and IaC
  • Apply resilient architecture patterns including multi-region failover and active-active designs
  • Create runbooks and AI-assisted processes for incident, problem, change and risk management
  • Utilize agentic AI to enhance observability and automated recovery
  • Collaborate with engineering, product and business teams to improve platform resilience
Key requirements
  • Proven SRE/DevOps/Platform Engineering experience in large-scale, regulated environments
  • Deep on-premises and AWS cloud-native architecture knowledge
  • Experience with AWS services (EKS/ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Aurora, S3)
  • Knowledge of SQL Server, Sybase, PostgreSQL (incl. Aurora)
  • Unix/Linux, Java, C#.NET and Python application support/development
  • Strong observability tooling experience (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK/EFK, CloudWatch, Datadog)
  • Incident management and production operations expertise
  • CI/CD pipelines, Git, scripting and IaC tools (Python, Go, Ansible, Terraform)
  • Experience embedding agentic AI in observability/incident management
  • Understanding of networking, security and reliability engineering principles
  • Leadership and stakeholder communication
  • Blameless problem-solving mindset
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • OpenTelemetry

Reference: WJ-747_31289580 · Posted 11 Nov 2026, 08:41 PM

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