Site Reliability Engineer- London

Job summary

ABOUT THE ROLE FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to work for our client within the Finance sector. This is initially a 6 month contract with very good prospects to extend and will be a hybrid role that will be based in London.

Qualifications

• Our client is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with a strong focus on Observability and Monitoring Platforms.
• This role requires hands-on expertise in the deployment, administration, and optimisation of OpenSearch, alongside experience with Grafana, Geneos, and automation/scripting

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, deployment, configuration, and ongoing management of OpenSearch clusters and associated observability tooling.
• Develop and maintain scalable monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions for business-critical applications and infrastructure.
• Build and enhance observability dashboards using Grafana.
• Support and optimise existing Geneos monitoring implementations.
• Create and maintain automation scripts to streamline operational processes and improve reliability.
• Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, and support teams to improve system resilience and operational performance.
• Define and implement SRE best practices, including monitoring standards, alert management, incident response, and operational readiness.
• Perform troubleshooting and root cause analysis of platform and application issues.
• Support capacity planning, performance tuning, and platform optimisation initiatives.
• Contribute to documentation, operational procedures, and knowledge sharing within the engineering team.
• ABOUT YOU
• OPENSEARCH (CRITICAL REQUIREMENT)

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