SRE Team Leader

Job Title

SRE Team Leader

Job Description

So, who are we?
Hello, we’re IG Group, an FTSE 250 Fintech that provides cutting-edge mobile, web and desktop platforms that help our clients trade Stocks & Shares, leveraged products, Futures & Options and Crypto.

We are ambitious. Over 340,000 people already use our platforms. We’re global with offices in 18 countries and products in 16 regions. We’re hungry to move faster, ship better products for our customers and grow our user base. We believe in high autonomy, and we want people who are looking to do things differently to create better experiences for our customers.

We work in cross-functional teams and are laser-focused on increasing the number of active clients we serve to drive sustainable growth.

Your Team

The SRE Team are responsible for establishing SLOs as foundational principles, leveraging public cloud, containerization, reliability testing, and observability to drive continuous improvement in the customer experience space.

This team leads the way in helping IG build resilient and scalable systems that are core to everything we do.

Your role in the Team’s Success 

The Site Reliability Engineer Team Lead (SRE Team Lead) will manage a team of SRE’s to proactively ensure the stability, resilience and scale of our services through automation, testing and engineering.  

Working alongside the engineering, architecture and service management teams, to ensure technical solutions are aligned to IGs architectural principles, designs, and NFRs is key to ensuring the delivery of value to our customers, as well as ensuring consistent monitoring, logging and alerting.  

Reporting to the Head of Platform Engineering, you will be the differentiator responsible for building capability and maturing operational ways of working across multiple cross-function delivery teams, with a focus on technical excellence and a high-performance culture.

What you’ll do

• Provide leadership and guidance across the SRE team, acting as a subject matter expert and leading best practice techniques. 

• To lead and influence teams to ensure quality and operational excellence, and continuously work towards making systems/processes better

• Ensure system observability, security, data integrity and compliance with regulatory requirements. 

• Establish a metrics-based organization, develop key operational metrics (preferably SLO) and push for continuous improvement.

• To take highly complex and manual processes and work to simplify and automate them

• To oversee the SRE team to ensure they are involved in every step of the application software development lifecycle, including product design, development, testing, and transition into operation. 

How we work

We try to take a thoughtful approach to our ways of working as a company. We follow a hybrid working model with 3 days in the office – which we think balances the need to collaborate effectively and connect with each other.

When it comes to how we deliver, there are 5 things we want everyone to do to drive high performance, better learning and career satisfaction:

Lead and Inspire: Drives trust, alignment, and enthusiasm

Think Big: Focus on the problems that most impact commercial outcomes

Champion the client: Understand and prioritise the client's needs

Deliver at pace: Push for fast, sustainable growth;

Raise the bar: Take ownership, be accountable and share feedback

We believe that diversity is vital to success, it fuels creativity, drives innovation and sets us up for global success. We’re committed to building teams with a variety of perspectives and skills to help us realise our vision and strategy, that’s why we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences to join us on this journey.

Learn more about our D&I approach here.

What you’ll need for this role

• At least a bachelor’s degree (computer science or related fields) or equivalent experience in building scalable solutions to improve service reliability and/or increase productivity and efficiency. 

• Experience with object-oriented or scripting programming languages such as Java or Python to build DevOps/SRE solutions. 

• Experience with agile systems development methodologies. 

• 5+ years’ experience managing engineering teams. 

• Strong organisational and analytical skills. 

• AWS or Cloud experience, preferably not mandatory. 

The Perks

Your growth fuels our success!

Thrive with tailored development programs, mentoring opportunities with leaders, and clear career progression. Expand your network through committees, sports and social clubs. Enjoy extra time off for volunteering and community work.

• Competitive salary

• Flexible Benefits Package on top of your salary (12%)

• Private medical cover for you and your family

• Life insurance

• Contribution to gym memberships

• 25 Days holiday, with 1 additional day off to celebrate your Birthday & 2 additional days off a year for voluntary work (28 in total

• The option to buy or sell holiday days.

• Unlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning Platform

• A comprehensive global and local onboarding process

• Employee-led LGBTQ+, Women’s, Black and Parents & Carers networks with an annual budget for organising events & projects that foster an open, diverse and inclusive culture

• Option to participate and create ESG initiatives based on IG Brighter Future Fund

• Enhanced primary (maternity), secondary (paternity), and shared parental pay and leave, as well as a range of support and benefits for parents

Learn more about the Perks here!
 

Join us for this exciting journey.

Apply now!

Number of openings

1