What are the responsibilities and job description for the Site Reliability Engineer position at FDM Group?
About The Role
This position requires the successful candidate to work on a W2 directly with FDM. We cannot accept C2C, 1099 or employment sponsorship (e.g. H1-B) for this position.
FDM is a global business and technology consultancy delivering client and industry driven solutions through our 5 core specialist Practices; Software Engineering, Data & Analytics, IT Operations, Change & Transformation, and Risk, Regulation & Compliance.
FDM is seeking an Implementation Enterprise Site Reliability Engineer located in Jersey City to support a project in the Financial sector. Involvement in this project is anticipated to last initially 12 months but may be extended.
This role will be hybrid with requirements to be in office 3 days per week.
About You
About The Role
We are seeking an Implementation Enterprise Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join a major global financial services client. This role is pivotal in establishing, scaling, and maturing an SRE capability across the enterprise. The ideal candidate will have hands‑on experience creating and implementing an SRE function from scratch within a banking or highly regulated financial environment and be able to embed modern reliability practices across engineering teams. This role is a 12-month contract with prospects to extend and will be hybrid role based in New Jersey City
Responsibilities:
- Designing, implementing and embedding an enterprise-wide SRE operating model, including SLIs, SLOs and error budgets.
- Establishing SRE processes, governance and tooling from the ground up for a large-scale banking environment.
- Leading platform reliability initiatives and partnering with engineering, architecture and operations teams.
- Automating infrastructure, deployments and operational workflows to reduce toil and improve service stability.
- Implementing enterprise observability standards including logging, metrics, distributed tracing and intelligent alerting.
- Conducting blameless incident reviews and driving systemic improvements across services and platforms.
- Supporting cloud strategy and ensuring reliability best practices across AWS/Azure/GCP environments.
- Leading resilience engineering initiatives including chaos testing, failover scenarios and DR validation.
- Producing high-quality governance, risk and resilience materials for senior stakeholders.
- Mentoring engineering teams to adopt SRE best practices and shift towards a reliability-first culture.
- Supporting audits, regulatory reviews and technical risk assessments.
- Performing analysis related to system performance trends, service gaps and reliability improvements.
About You
- At least 12 years experience in SRE, production engineering or large-scale platform engineering roles.
- Proven experience building an SRE function from scratch within a bank or regulated financial institution.
- Strong experience with cloud environments (AWS, Azure or GCP) and infrastructure-as-code tooling.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, containers, service mesh technologies and CI/CD platforms.
- Expertise with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Datadog or Open Telemetry.
- Strong scripting or development skills in Python, Go, Bash or similar.
- Excellent communication and documentation skills, including senior stakeholder management.
- Ability to influence engineering teams and drive cultural change.
- Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Experience in a banking or financial services organization is essential.
- Knowledge of operational resilience frameworks, risk controls and audit requirements is desirable.
About Us
FDM powers the people behind tech and innovation. We spot trends, find top talent, and help businesses stay ahead.
With 35 years of experience, we coach, mentor, and launch fresh thinkers from diverse backgrounds into world-class careers. Partnering with top global companies, we deliver the right talent at the right time—while guiding our people toward exponential growth.
🌍 Global impact – 19 centers across North America, APAC, the UK, and Europe
🚀 25,000 careers launched – and counting
🤝 300 trusted client partners
Committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Tech careers should be for everyone. With 80 nationalities represented, FDM thrives on diversity, fuels innovation through unique perspectives, and celebrates success together. As an Equal Opportunity Employer and FTSE4Good-listed company, we ensure every qualified applicant gets a fair shot—no barriers, just opportunities.
Additional Considerations
FDM Group, Inc. is registered to operate and hire employees in select states within the US. We will consider employment applications exclusively from candidates who are either residing in one of the following states or willing to relocate to them: Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia.