Platform SRE Engineer

Job Role: Platform SRE Engineer
Employment Type: Contract
Start Date: January 2027
Contract Length: 9-12 months
Remote/Hybrid/Office: Hybrid
Day Rates: TBC

About us
FT Select is a niche technology search and selection company, specialising in recruiting elite Sales Executives and high-end Technology specialists for high-growth tech businesses.________________________________________
About the Company
A well-known leading global financial services organisation.
Description of Role:
Focuses on the operational resilience dimension of cyber remediation. Ensures Tier 0 and Tier 1 platforms can be recovered, operated, and observed under disruption. Links the cyber remediation programme with the firm's operational resilience obligations and recovery requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
• Validate backup and restore processes for Tier 0/Tier 1 platforms.
• Improve and test recovery runbooks.
• Identify and close observability and alerting gaps.
• Support service dependency mapping.
• Carry out resilience and failover testing.
• Implement or improve rate limiting and circuit breakers.
• Contribute to disaster recovery evidence.
• Support cyber recovery exercises with Engineering Leads and SOC.
Required Skills:
• Platform engineering or SRE background with a resilience focus.
• Experience with observability tooling (e.g. Azure App Insights, Datadog, Dynatrace, Prometheus/Grafana, Splunk, New Relic).
• Hands-on with backup, restore, and disaster recovery processes in cloud environments.
• Familiarity with operational resilience frameworks (DORA, PRA/FCA requirements desirable).
• Experience writing and testing recovery runbooks.
• Comfortable working across multiple platform teams with varying technology stacks.
• Financial services or other regulated industry experience desirable.