Site Reliability Engineer – Kubernetes

Emagine Consulting – Investment Banking

£500 - £600 per day (inside IR35)

London – Onsite 3 days a week

 

emagine is a high-end professional services consultancy and solutions firm Specialising in providing business and technology services to the financial services sector, we power progress, solve challenges and deliver real results through tailored high-end consulting services and solutions.

We have created a culture of openness and integrity by building genuine and strong relationships and partnerships, enabling us to be uncompromising in our dedication in delivering the optimal service for our clients. Our commitment is not just towards our clients but we aim to foster a positive and equitable working environment with our consultants and colleagues which stems from our core values: Confident, Dedicated, Responsible, Genuine.

 

Overview: emagine is seeking a skilled Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with a strong focus on Kubernetes and Docker to join our consultancy team, working with a leading investment bank. As a consultant, you will develop software for self-managing infrastructure services, enhance system performance, and collaborate with the bank's development teams to ensure the high availability, reliability, and performance of their containerized applications. This role demands a proactive approach in identifying improvement opportunities and implementing robust solutions leveraging Kubernetes and Docker technologies.

 

Responsibilities

  • Develop infrastructure services and self-service dashboards for the investment bank

  • Implement Infrastructure as Code to improve service delivery

  • Automate repetitive tasks to enhance efficiency

  • Optimize system performance, resource utilization, and reduce latency

  • Establish and monitor SLOs to meet availability and latency targets

  • Conduct detailed root cause analyses for incidents and outages

  • Collaborate with the bank's development teams to enhance service quality

  • Identify and address technical debt, develop standard operating procedures

  • Plan and execute cloud migration strategies

  • Ensure project deliverables meet timelines and budget

  • Manage audit requests and liaise with control and risk teams

  • Act as deputy team lead when required

  • Identify cost-saving and optimization opportunities

  • Build strong inter-departmental relationships within the bank

  • Secondary Responsibilities

  • Perform daily system health checks and resolve issues

  • Ensure successful system backups and address failures promptly

  • Validate and resolve monitoring alerts and batch job failures

  • Maintain infrastructure availability, reliability, and security

  • Provide technical support and consultancy to application teams

  • Participate in on-call and weekend work rotations

Skills Needed

Essential:

  • Expertise in Docker/Kubernetes deployment, configuration, scaling, and management of containerized applications

  • Proficiency in CI/CD tools: Git, Ansible, Terraform, TeamCity, SDA, Jenkins

  • Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code, Agile, SRE, and DevOps practices

  • Proficient in scripting languages: PowerShell, Python, Bash, C#

  • Advanced understanding of backup/recovery processes, clustering, high-availability, and disaster recovery

  • Strong performance tuning skills and system internals knowledge

  • Ability to implement CIS security recommendations

Highly Desirable:

  • Experience with RHEL, Oracle Linux, Solaris, Windows Server, SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, MongoDB, Snowflake

  • Familiarity with Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos, Nutanix HCI, VMWare ESX, networking protocols, and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP, Oracle)

  • Understanding of data security regulations (GDPR, SOX)

Desirable:

Knowledge of Dell EMC PowerStore, Isilon, Rubrik, EMC Networker, CyberArk, Splunk, Qualys, Cisco Tetration, ServiceNow, JIRA, Confluence

 

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle, from strategy to implementation. This will provide you with a broad base of experience from which to build an outstanding career.

We pride ourselves on;

  • Providing our people with a supportive culture, rooted in our values and driven by our purpose.

  • Promoting a culture of inclusion, collaboration, well-being, and learning and development.

  • Providing increased agility and flexibility within our hybrid working model

  • Investing in employees’ growth through ongoing training and development

  • Autonomy to take ownership of projects, making decisions and demonstrating individual expertise

  • Providing an transparent performance and career management experience.

 

Our consultants are integral to delivering successful consulting engagements, addressing our clients’ most pressing business challenges, and build lasting value in disciplines such as:

  • Solve sophisticated, ambiguous business, change and technology problems, bringing structure and meticulous analysis and planning, acting, and taking decisions with little strategic direction

  • Build, develop and sustain trusted senior client relationships in the C-suite by remaining highly attuned to client needs

  • Drive, enable and support the business, partnering with our leaders, clients, and consultants across our practices to take the best of emagine to our clients through opportunity identification/qualification, solution development/presentation

Interested?

 

At emagine, we are committed to building an international and diverse team by embracing our different backgrounds.

If you are up to the challenge and would like to find out more, get in touch with us immediately, our internal recruitment team is always keen to hear from dynamic individuals that are looking to further their career and explore their full potential. 

 

“emagine is an equal opportunity employer, and employment practices are based strictly on merit. It is the policy of the Company to give equal opportunity in employment regardless of sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, religion or ethnic origin”