About the Role
Monument’s SRE role is the single point of ownership for production environment incidents. You will directly oversee the offshore Production Support team, run on-call and incident response, and ensure fast detection, triage, and restoration of services. This role involves actively debugging incidents, driving permanent fixes, and using AI tools for automation. It offers a rare opportunity to own production reliability at a pre-IPO challenger bank.
Responsibilities
- Directly oversee the offshore Production Support team and act as the single point person for incidents.
- Run on-call and incident response, ensuring fast detection, triage, and restoration.
- Maintain observability standards (logs, metrics, traces) and alert quality.
- Understand key system flows, services, partners, and teams to debug incidents.
- Lead reliability engineering efforts, including resilience patterns, performance tuning, and capacity planning.
- Facilitate post-incident reviews and track action items to completion.
- Utilize AI tools for automated alert correlation, root cause analysis, and runbook generation.
- Identify routine tasks for automation and execute automation plans.
Requirements
- Strong SRE or production support experience with accountability for incident response in a production environment.
- Deep understanding of observability tools, alerting, logging, and distributed systems debugging.
- Experience managing and working with offshore support teams.
- Hands-on experience with reliability engineering: resilience patterns, performance tuning, capacity planning.
- Active use of AI tools for incident triage, automation, and runbook generation.
- Ability to understand complex system flows across multiple services and third-party integrations.
- Experience in financial services or similarly regulated environments is a strong advantage.
Skills
- SRE
- Production Support
- Incident Response
- Observability Tools
- Alerting
- Logging
- Distributed Systems Debugging
- Reliability Engineering
- Resilience Patterns
- Performance Tuning
- Capacity Planning
- AI Tools
- Automation
- Runbook Generation
Location
- London (Oxford Circus)
Work Type
- Hybrid: 2 days per week
About the Company
- Monument is building a financial brand for the mass affluent, professionals, entrepreneurs, and ambitious savers, aiming to make wealth management simpler, smarter, and more human.
- The company holds over £7 billion in client savings, serves more than 100,000 clients, and was named the UK's fastest growing fintech in 2025.
- Monument's values shape decision-making, interpersonal interactions, and client service, emphasizing ambitious goals, learning from failures, collaboration, diverse perspectives, and continuous improvement.
