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Ascendion

SRE Lead (Banking/Financial)

Ascendion
United Kingdom · Contract · Mid-Senior

Job Description:

  • Our client is transforming their production support function into a full Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) model, and we’re looking for a hands-on SRE Lead to help establish and lead the SRE capability. We are looking for a hands-on SRE Lead to establish and lead the SRE function, ensuring operational excellence across production systems.


Essential Skills & Experience:

  • Proven experience as an SRE Lead or Senior SRE in large-scale, high-availability production environments.
  • Strong experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, PagerDuty, or similar.
  • Experience managing incident response, on-call processes, and post-incident reviews.
  • Strong understanding of operational tooling for data ingestion and calculation pipelines, with the ability to detect anomalies in system behaviour.
  • Ability to provide technical leadership and influence engineering stakeholders.

Key Skills

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incident response prometheus pagerduty grafana datadog
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Posted
Apr 13, 2026
Type
Contract
Level
Mid-Senior
Location
London Area
Company
Ascendion

Industries

Financial Services Banking Investment Banking

Categories

Engineering Other Information Technology

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