Site Reliability Engineer

📍London, Old Street | 🏢 2 Days in Office

SRE at Capital On Tap 🌞

At Capital On Tap, we run a hybrid embedded SRE model. We aim to work closely with the teams within Capital On Tap to provide them the best support. Our main objective currently is to gain as much visibility into our platform's health while offering scalable solutions.

What You’ll be doing:

As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) you will help ensure our platforms are fast, reliable, and scalable. You’ll design, build, and monitor systems, prevent issues before they happen. Using SLAs, SLIs, and SLOs, you’ll guide feature launches while maintaining services that everyone can depend on.

• Manage and automate Azure, Datadog, NGINX & Cloudflare
• Develop and monitor Kubernetes and Serverless resources
• Maintain infrastructure code with Terraform & CRDs / Crossplane
• Improve systems, processes, and technologies; consult stakeholders to enhance platform performance
• Getting involved in new application architecture & design processes
• Design solutions to reduce toil, automate repetitive tasks and streamline workflows to reduce manual work and boost team productivity.
• Create SLIs and SLOs; increase application visibility
• Align with the Product team on SLAs and core service objectives
• Collaborate with Platform Engineers for automated solutions and pipelines
• Enhance user experience with infrastructure and pipeline optimisation
• Support CI/CD tools such as Azure Devops, Octopus Deploy and Flux to streamline software delivery
• Lead incident troubleshooting to safeguard customer experience

We’re Looking For 🔎

Required skills:

• Experience in managing a public cloud (Azure advantageous)
• Experience in Azure DevOps, Octopus, Flux or other CI/CD tools
• Experience with Linux and Microsoft Systems
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate with multiple teams in an agile environment
• Proficient in contributing to IaC technologies involving expertise in writing, managing, and optimising infrastructure with tools such as Terraform and Pulumi
• Experience working with a cloud monitoring solution (advantageous to have DataDog)
• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker
• Experience in at least one scripting language (Python, PowerShell, Go)

Interview Process 🤝

• First stage: 30-minute intro, CV review, and values with Talent Partner
• Second stage: 60 minute “Tech Chat” with Team Manager
• Final stage: 75-minute Technical Task + 30 minute Interview with Head of Platform Engineering

Diversity & Inclusion 🌈

We welcome, consider and encourage applications from anyone who shares our commitment to inclusivity. Join us in creating a space where authenticity thrives, and everyone can do their best work.

Great Work Deserves Great Perks

We try not to take ourselves too seriously (all the time) so we make sure our office is decked out with a pool table, arcade machine, beer tap, and a couple of office dogs thrown in for good measure. Check out our benefits:

🏥 Private Healthcare including dental and opticians services through Vitality

✈️ Worldwide travel insurance through Vitality

🎁 Anniversary Rewards (£250, £500, £750, 4-week fully paid sabbatical)

👛 Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme up to 7% match

🏖️ 28 days holiday (plus bank holidays)

📖 Annual Learning and Wellbeing Budget

👪 Enhanced Parental Leave

🚲 Cycle to Work Scheme

🚂 Season Ticket Loan

💬 6 free therapy sessions per year

🐶 Dog Friendly Offices

🍫 Free drinks and snacks in our offices

Check out more of our benefits, values and mission here.