Details:
- Salary: £450 - 500 - Day
- Job Type: Contract
- Job Status: Full-Time
- Salary Per: Day
- Location: London
- Date: 1 day ago
Description:
We need an experienced SRE to focus predominantly on automation, optimization, and process re-engineering using AI for the Market Risk Platform.
* Location: 5 days onsite
* Domain: Banking / Finance / Trading – Market Risk
* Skills:
* SRE experience with Python-based applications (not Java)
* Exposure to cloud technologies
* Familiarity with Athena ecosystem or similar (SecDB, Quartz)
* Trade Lifecycle / Market Risk / Risk platform experience
* Experience: Minimum 8+ years
* Engagement: FTE or Contractors
* Compensation: £70–80k FTE / £450–550 per day (contract- Inside IR35)
Required skills & Experience
* Senior SRE experience on distributed systems and batch/intraday workloads in a production environment.
* Strong Python
* Provable agentic AI experience showing
* Tool integration, guard rails, evaluation approach
* Measurable impact (toil reduction, MTTR reduction, alert reduction etc)
* Demonstrated process optimization ability (removing steps/handoffs, standardizing workflows, implementing light weight controls with metrics)
* Strong Linux and troubleshooting fundamentals across application/system/network layers
* Experience working across mixed estates ( On Pre VMs + Cloud, with some Kubernetes exposure for operational monitoring/reruns)
* Exposure to Banking/Finance Market Risk Domains