<p><strong>Site Reliability Engineer Lead (SRE) - AWS | Observability | Incident Management</strong></p><p>Robert Half International (an S&P 500 global staffing provider) is supporting a global consulting firm in sourcing an interim <strong>SRE Lead</strong> for a major financial services engagement. This role will focus on improving platform reliability, stabilising production environments, and embedding best-in-class SRE practices across a complex, high-availability estate.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Assignment Details</strong></p><ul><li><strong>£500-£550 p/day</strong> via PAYE <strong>PLUS additional 12.07% daily holiday pay on top.</strong> (employer's NI & tax deducted at source - unlike umbrella companies and no umbrella company admin fees)</li><li><strong>Initial 6 month contract</strong></li><li><strong>Hybrid </strong>working - <strong>2-3 days per week in the City of London</strong></li><li><strong>Start date</strong>: c.2-4 week turnaround with anticipated start date with onboarding paperwork of w/c 01/05</li></ul><p> </p><p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p><ul><li>Lead and improve <strong>incident management processes</strong> (detection, triage, escalation, resolution)</li><li>Drive <strong>major incident response (P1/P0)</strong> and post-incident reviews (blameless postmortems)</li><li>Define and implement <strong>SRE principles</strong> including SLIs, SLOs, SLAs and error budgets</li><li>Build and enhance <strong>observability frameworks</strong> across metrics, logs and tracing</li><li>Drive <strong>automation and reduction of manual toil</strong> across operational processes</li><li>Implement <strong>runbooks, playbooks and operational readiness standards</strong></li><li>Work closely with engineering, platform and security teams to embed reliability into delivery</li><li>Support the design of <strong>resilient, highly available systems</strong> (failover, DR, multi-region)</li></ul><p> </p><p><strong>Key Skills & Experience</strong></p><ul><li>Proven experience in <strong>SRE, DevOps or Platform Engineering roles</strong> within complex environments</li><li>Strong hands-on experience with <strong>incident management and production support at scale</strong></li><li>Deep experience with <strong>observability tooling</strong> (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, OpenTelemetry)</li><li>Solid experience with <strong>AWS cloud environments</strong> (EKS/ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, etc.)</li><li>Experience with <strong>CI/CD pipelines, automation and Infrastructure as Code</strong> (Terraform, Ansible, etc.)</li><li>Strong understanding of <strong>system reliability, performance and resilience engineering principles</strong></li><li>Experience working in <strong>regulated or high-availability environments</strong> (financial services preferred)</li></ul><p><strong>Nice to Have</strong></p><ul><li>Experience with <strong>chaos engineering or resilience testing</strong></li><li>Exposure to <strong>AIOps or intelligent automation frameworks</strong></li><li>Experience transitioning or improving <strong>outsourced / offshore support models</strong></li></ul><p> </p><p><strong>All candidates will be required to complete standard screening checks including Right to Work, financial background checks and last 5 years referencing.</strong></p><p>Robert Half Ltd acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. Robert Half is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. Suitable candidates with equivalent qualifications and more or less experience can apply. Rates of pay and salary ranges are dependent upon your experience, qualifications and training. If you wish to apply, please read our Privacy Notice describing how we may process, disclose and store your personal data: roberthalf.com/gb/en/privacy-notice.</p><img src="https://counter.adcourier.com/Tmljb2xhcy5HZW9yZ2lvdS40MjIzMi4xMDkyM0ByaGkuYXBsaXRyYWsuY29t.gif">
