# Senior Software Development Engineer - SRE

**Company**: Capital One
**Location**: Nottingham
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are looking for a Senior Engineer to join our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team. This role is ideal for a skilled Java engineer with a passion for understanding how complex systems work, analysing performance, and applying engineering solutions to make them more efficient, stable, and scalable.

You will technically lead a group of engineers responsible for maintaining and improving our back-end services for our most critical customer and/or data applications within the cloud.

Key responsibilities:

- Lead on planning and implementing key SRE initiatives

- Optimise and automate how our systems operate

- Improve observability through better monitoring and logging

- Drive engineering best practice and set standards across the team and wider SRE community

- Innovate within your team and contribute within your technical domain

- Deliver key pieces of intent from inception through to design and hands-on delivery

Requirements:

- Production-grade experience of developing and managing APIs using Java & Springboot

- Excellent understanding of SOLID principles, SOA, HTTP and REST

- Production experience running microservices on container orchestration architectures

- Good understanding of API authentication and authorisation mechanisms like OAuth

- Knowledge using monitoring & logging tools to troubleshoot problems in a distributed network of systems

- Excellent understanding of infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipeline management via Jenkins

- Strong experience in back-end architectural and design patterns

Benefits:

- Competitive pension and performance-based bonus schemes

- 25 days of annual leave, increasing with tenure

- Access premium care through private medical insurance

- Enhanced parental leave

- Up to £5,000 in funding for external qualifications

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Springboot
- SOLID principles
- SOA
- HTTP
- REST
- microservices
- container orchestration
- OAuth
- monitoring & logging tools
- infrastructure as code
- CI/CD pipeline management
- Jenkins
- back-end architectural and design patterns

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