Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Transformation - SRE Adoption - Banking and Payments

Contract, 12 months + Based in London (Hybrid working - 3 days office)

Global financial services client is seeking an SRE to lead the designs and reliability engineering across banking and payments, establishing SRE standards, automation, and learning practices to improve resilience, reduce incidents, and scale engineering led operations. The successful candidate will be skilled in resilient engineering, risk control, and scaling operations across complex banking and payments environments. Demonstrate flexibility, navigate ambiguity, and quickly establish credibility among technical peers Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities include:

• SRE strategy ownership
• Banking/payments resilience
• Reliability engineering transformation
• SLO/SLI/error budget adoption
• Incide...