Site Reliability Engineer

London | Hedge Fund | Permanent

The Client

Tempest Vane Partners has partnered with a globally recognised investment management business seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to join a high-calibre platform engineering team in London.

The Role

This opportunity sits within a technology-driven organisation where engineering is fundamental to business performance. The successful candidate will work on highly scalable infrastructure supporting large-scale research, analytics, and trading environments across an international platform.

The position offers significant exposure to modern cloud-native engineering, distributed systems, automation, and platform reliability initiatives within a fast-moving and technically sophisticated environment.

The Opportunity

The incoming engineer will play a key role in the design, improvement, and automation of critical infrastructure systems across both cloud and on-premise environments.

Working closely with infrastructure, development, and platform teams, the role will focus heavily on scalability, resilience, observability, and operational efficiency.

Core responsibilities will include:

• Engineering and maintaining enterprise-scale Kubernetes environments
• Supporting the evolution toward cloud-native and distributed architectures
• Driving automation initiatives across infrastructure and operational workflows
• Developing and promoting Infrastructure-as-Code best practices
• Enhancing platform stability, availability, and system performance
• Contributing to monitoring, observability, and incident response capabilities
• Partnering with global engineering teams on platform improvements and technical delivery

Candidate Requirements

Successful candidates are likely to demonstrate experience across several of the following areas:

• Strong scripting or software engineering capability using Python, Golang, Bash, or similar
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes and container-based infrastructure
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or equivalent automation tooling
• Knowledge of hybrid infrastructure and distributed systems environments
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Jaeger
• Exposure to data streaming or workflow technologies including Kafka or Airflow
• Strong troubleshooting capability with a focus on automation and reliability engineering