Site Reliability Engineer, Associate
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(£25.85 per hour)
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Description
About This Role
We’re looking for an SRE with strong Kafka experience and a deep understanding of SRE best practices. You’ll combine hands‑on technical improvements with the ability to delegate work effectively to EventBus developers.
You’ll collaborate closely with the EventBus, Kafka, Telemetry, and Incident Response teams, while also working independently to improve monitoring, reduce noise, strengthen alerting, and track remediation progress.
This role sits at the centre of a global platform used by hundreds of developers and joins a fast‑growing, experienced SRE group based in Edinburgh.
About The Team
The Aladdin EventBus is built on Kafka and enables teams to publish and subscribe to distributed events in near real time. As part of the Aladdin Graph group—a core Platform Engineering function—the EventBus team supports developers across the firm in designing, building, and operating event‑driven and API‑based systems.
EventBus is now a critical dependency for key applications, including our release system and API infrastructure. This drives a high bar for availability, incident responsiveness, and operational excellence. The SRE function supports this by improving observability, streamlining incident processes, and identifying gaps that meaningfully improve platform reliability.
Key Responsibilities
As the SRE for EventBus, you will drive stability, resiliency, and observability through:
We’re looking for an SRE with strong Kafka experience and a deep understanding of SRE best practices. You’ll combine hands‑on technical improvements with the ability to delegate work effectively to EventBus developers.
You’ll collaborate closely with the EventBus, Kafka, Telemetry, and Incident Response teams, while also working independently to improve monitoring, reduce noise, strengthen alerting, and track remediation progress.
This role sits at the centre of a global platform used by hundreds of developers and joins a fast‑growing, experienced SRE group based in Edinburgh.
About The Team
The Aladdin EventBus is built on Kafka and enables teams to publish and subscribe to distributed events in near real time. As part of the Aladdin Graph group—a core Platform Engineering function—the EventBus team supports developers across the firm in designing, building, and operating event‑driven and API‑based systems.
EventBus is now a critical dependency for key applications, including our release system and API infrastructure. This drives a high bar for availability, incident responsiveness, and operational excellence. The SRE function supports this by improving observability, streamlining incident processes, and identifying gaps that meaningfully improve platform reliability.
Key Responsibilities
As the SRE for EventBus, you will drive stability, resiliency, and observability through:
- Staying informed on all EventBus incidents, including impact, root cause, detection, and ongoing remediation
- Responding to incidents calmly and efficiently, communicating clearly with reporters and partner teams, and recommending remediations based on urgency and impact
- Proposing improvements informed by prior incidents, potential risks, and industry standards—e.g., new metrics, SLOs, fallback mechanisms
- Leading incident retrospectives and sharing insights with the wider team
- 3+ years in an SRE role, including experience with defining and managing SLOs
- Strong understanding of SRE principles (Golden Signals, error budgets, synthetic monitoring, signal‑to‑noise optimisation)
- Extensive hands‑on experience with Kafka
- Experience using monitoring tools (Grafana and Splunk preferred), including building dashboards, alerts, and reports
- Java Developer Experience: Experience with Java or another object‑oriented language
- CI/CD & Release Management: Experience managing pipelines using Azure DevOps or other Git‑based tools
- Cloud Experience: Practical experience with at least one public cloud provider, preferably Azure or AWS
- Agile Development: Familiarity with agile ways of working, sprint ceremonies, and backlog planning
- Scripting & Automation: Proficiency in Python or Golang for automating operational tasks
- Monitoring & Observability: Strong understanding of logging, monitoring, and observability practices, including writing integration scripts
- Collaboration & Communication: Strong cross‑team collaboration skills and excellent written and verbal communication
To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including: retirement investment and tools designed to help you in building a sound financial future; access to education reimbursement; comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being; family support programs; and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.
Our hybrid work model
BlackRock’s hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person – aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.
About BlackRock
At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being. Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children’s educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.
This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment – the one we make in our employees. It’s why we’re dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.
For additional information on BlackRock, please visit @blackrock | Twitter: @blackrock | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/blackrock
BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected characteristics at law.
About BlackRock
At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being. Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children’s educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.
This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment – the one we make in our employees. It’s why we’re dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.
For additional information on BlackRock, please visit @blackrock | Twitter: @blackrock | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/blackrock
BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected characteristics at law.