Site Reliability Engineer
UK Visa Sponsorship Analytics
Analytics are greyed out due to low classification confidence (44.0%).
Occupation Type
Civil engineers
Occupation Code Skill LevelHigher Skilled
Sponsorship Salary Threshold
£50,400
(£25.85 per hour)
Occupation rate applies
Above analytics are generated algorithmically based on job titles and may not always be the same as the company's job classification. You can also check detailed occupation eligibility, and salary criteria on our UK Visa Eligible Occupations & Salary Thresholds page.
Disclaimer: Hunt UK Visa Sponsors aggregates job listings from publicly available sources, such as search engines, to assist with your job hunting. We do not claim affiliation with Xceptor. For the most up-to-date job details, please visit the official website by clicking "Apply Now."
Description
About Xceptor
Data is at the heart of everything we do: Xceptor has been designed around data manipulation in its broadest sense. We source data from wherever it flows. We curate, normalise, validate, repair, and enrich that data so it reaches its destination in a reliable and consistent format. Data coming out of Xceptor is data our clients can trust.
We are recognised as an expert in the Financial Services vertical, which strongly aligns with Business Users in Middle and Back-Office teams. We enable these users to solve their data challenges by themselves, rather than through a technology-led project.
Our mission is to empower business users within financial institutions to build automated processes that deliver trusted data.
Our values are:
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a cross-cutting function that partners with tribes across Xceptor to make our services reliable, performant, secure, and operable in production. We set and evolve standards for SLOs/SLIs, observability, incident response, and operational controls, and we build automation that reduces toil and enables teams to ship safely at pace across cloud and on-prem deployments.
Xceptor operates with an AI-first PDLC. AI agents are a digital delivery partner and a member of the team, accelerating how we design, build, test, document, deploy, and operate our services. Reliability is engineered in through standards, automation, and measurable signals, with humans providing intent, constraints, verification, and accountability.
🧩 What You’ll Be Doing:
Data is at the heart of everything we do: Xceptor has been designed around data manipulation in its broadest sense. We source data from wherever it flows. We curate, normalise, validate, repair, and enrich that data so it reaches its destination in a reliable and consistent format. Data coming out of Xceptor is data our clients can trust.
We are recognised as an expert in the Financial Services vertical, which strongly aligns with Business Users in Middle and Back-Office teams. We enable these users to solve their data challenges by themselves, rather than through a technology-led project.
Our mission is to empower business users within financial institutions to build automated processes that deliver trusted data.
Our values are:
- Client Centricity
- One Team
- Impactful
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a cross-cutting function that partners with tribes across Xceptor to make our services reliable, performant, secure, and operable in production. We set and evolve standards for SLOs/SLIs, observability, incident response, and operational controls, and we build automation that reduces toil and enables teams to ship safely at pace across cloud and on-prem deployments.
Xceptor operates with an AI-first PDLC. AI agents are a digital delivery partner and a member of the team, accelerating how we design, build, test, document, deploy, and operate our services. Reliability is engineered in through standards, automation, and measurable signals, with humans providing intent, constraints, verification, and accountability.
🧩 What You’ll Be Doing:
As a Site Reliability Engineer at Xceptor, you contribute at tribe level to reliability, performance, and operability. You help build and run the reliability system: observability standards, incident response practices, runbooks, and automation that reduces toil and improves service health over time.
You partner closely with Software Engineering, QA, Platform Engineering, and Senior/Lead SREs to embed reliability into delivery without becoming a bottleneck. You will own well-scoped operational improvements end-to-end (design, implement, test, roll out, measure) and steadily increase your scope and independence.
This is an AI-first SRE role. You use AI routinely to accelerate investigation, diagnostics, runbook creation, infrastructure automation, and operational reporting, while staying accountable for verification and safe operation. This role exists to make reliability measurable and repeatable, reduce operational toil through automation, and enable fast delivery without compromising safety, control, or customer trust.
🎯 Who we're looking for:
Reliability Engineering (Build reliability into the system)
You partner closely with Software Engineering, QA, Platform Engineering, and Senior/Lead SREs to embed reliability into delivery without becoming a bottleneck. You will own well-scoped operational improvements end-to-end (design, implement, test, roll out, measure) and steadily increase your scope and independence.
This is an AI-first SRE role. You use AI routinely to accelerate investigation, diagnostics, runbook creation, infrastructure automation, and operational reporting, while staying accountable for verification and safe operation. This role exists to make reliability measurable and repeatable, reduce operational toil through automation, and enable fast delivery without compromising safety, control, or customer trust.
🎯 Who we're looking for:
Reliability Engineering (Build reliability into the system)
- Contributes to defining and improving SLIs/SLOs and service health signals, aligned to customer outcomes.
- Participates in incident response and on-call (as applicable), contributing to triage, mitigation, and recovery.
- Produces clear post-incident notes and supports root cause analysis, focusing on actions that prevent recurrence.
- Creates and improves runbooks/playbooks so incidents are faster and more consistent to resolve.
- Helps improve change safety through practical release/readiness checks and operational guardrails.
- Implements and improves observability for services: logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and alerting aligned to standards.
- Tunes alerts to reduce noise and improve actionability; helps manage flakiness and false positives.
- Automates repetitive operational tasks and reduces toil through scripts, tooling, and pipeline improvements.
- Contributes to deployment automation and reliability guardrails in CI/CD, working with Platform Engineering.
- Implements and maintains IaC changes under guidance, ensuring changes are safe, reviewed, and measured.
- Improves diagnostics and “day 2” operations to make support and troubleshooting easier.
- Uses AI routinely to accelerate operational tasks (investigation, diagnostics, runbooks, automation drafts) with explicit verification.
- Works effectively in an “agents draft, humans verify” model for operational artefacts (scripts, dashboards, alerts, incident summaries).
- Applies safe operational controls when using AI (no unsafe remediation; careful handling of sensitive data).
- Partners effectively with engineering teams to embed reliability into delivery without becoming a bottleneck.
- Communicates reliability risks and operational impacts clearly, escalating early when needed.
- Contributes to shared platform practices and standards across tribes (templates, runbooks, alerting patterns).
- Builds strong working relationships with stakeholders to support customer outcomes.
Technical :
- Experience supporting and improving production services with reliability and performance expectations.
- Working knowledge of cloud and cloud-native operations (Azure preferred), and the fundamentals of running services safely.
- Experience with IaC and automation (tooling/framework aligned to your stack), with good review and change discipline.
- Familiarity with CI/CD and deployment practices; able to improve pipelines and release safety under guidance.
- Uses AI to accelerate investigation, automation drafts, and runbook creation, and verifies outputs before use.
- Can follow and contribute to repeatable operational workflows and templates that improve reliability over time.
- Understands and mitigates AI risks in operations (unsafe actions, false confidence, confidentiality).
- Calm, pragmatic, and reliable; communicates clearly during incidents and operational issues.
- Outcome-focused with a bias for automation and systemic fixes over manual effort.
- Collaborative and receptive to feedback; grows quickly in a high-tempo environment.
- Customer-aware mindset suitable for regulated, mission-critical environments.
- Experience as an SRE / DevOps / Production Engineer (typically 2–5 years).
- Experience supporting cloud services and operational automation in production environments; Azure experience beneficial.
This role is measured on outcomes and how they’re achieved: improving reliability and operational signal quality, reducing toil through automation, and supporting controlled change in an AI-first operating model.
- Reliability : SLO attainment, availability/performance trends, incident frequency/severity trend, and MTTR improvements
- Change safety : change failure rate and rollback rate improve; releases become safer and more predictable
- Observability : alert signal-to-noise improves (flake/noise down), coverage of key services/journeys increases, faster diagnosis from logs/metrics/traces
- Toil reduction : automation increases, manual operational overhead reduces, runbooks/playbooks drive consistent response
- Cost & capacity : capacity planning maturity improves; cost optimisation without risking SLOs
- Behaviours: AI-first by default (agents draft, humans verify); strong verification discipline; reliable incident participation; automation mindset; control-aware and security-conscious decisions
Associated Values and Behaviours
🌍 Diversity & Inclusion at Xceptor
We believe great ideas come from everywhere — and that the best teams are made up of people with different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. At Xceptor, we’re committed to building a workplace where everyone feels welcome, valued, and empowered to be themselves.
We know that not everyone ticks every single box in a job description — and that’s okay. If you’re excited about this role and think you could make a difference, we’d love to hear from you. Your unique skills and experiences might be just what we need, even if you don’t meet every requirement.
We celebrate diversity and are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment for all employees — regardless of race, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, or background.
🌗 Hybrid at Xceptor
- Collaboration : Encourage teamwork and knowledge sharing.
- Innovation : Support the exploration of new ideas and technologies.
- Integrity : Maintain transparency and ethical behavior in all decisions.
- Accountability : Take ownership of responsibilities and results.
- Respect : Value diverse perspectives and contributions.
- Continuous Improvement : Strive for excellence in processes and outcomes.
🌍 Diversity & Inclusion at Xceptor
We believe great ideas come from everywhere — and that the best teams are made up of people with different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. At Xceptor, we’re committed to building a workplace where everyone feels welcome, valued, and empowered to be themselves.
We know that not everyone ticks every single box in a job description — and that’s okay. If you’re excited about this role and think you could make a difference, we’d love to hear from you. Your unique skills and experiences might be just what we need, even if you don’t meet every requirement.
We celebrate diversity and are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment for all employees — regardless of race, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, or background.
🌗 Hybrid at Xceptor
We love the buzz of the office and the flexibility of home—so at Xceptor, you get the best of both. Our people spend 2-3 days per week in the office collaborating, brainstorming, and connecting in person. The rest is up to you. It’s all about great teamwork, balanced with the freedom to work your way.
Please note:
Please note:
- Xceptor works with clients in financial services and our offers of employment are subject to the satisfactory completion of background checks, which includes criminal record checks, and credit reference checks.
- If you have any employment gaps exceeding three months within the last six years, we will request additional information and evidence to clarify those periods.