Insight International (UK) Ltd
Chaos Engineering Tech Lead
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Chaos Engineering Tech Lead
Chaos Engineering Tech Lead
About the Role
The Chaos Engineering Tech Lead will lead the development and execution of chaos engineering capabilities for the Treasury Technology team, aiming to enhance platform resilience, recoverability, and operational stability across critical services. This role entails providing technical leadership to:
- Define chaos engineering practices
- Design and govern experiments
- Drive the remediation of resilience gaps across the Treasury technology estate
Responsibilities
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Strategy and Roadmap
- Define and lead the chaos engineering strategy, roadmap, and operating model for Treasury Technology
- Establish best practices, guardrails, and standards for safe, effective chaos engineering
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Experiment Design & Execution
- Design, review, and execute chaos experiments to validate resilience across:
- Infrastructure
- Platforms
- Applications
- Service dependencies
- Identify weaknesses in:
- Resilience
- Single points of failure
- Recovery gaps
- Operational risks
- Design, review, and execute chaos experiments to validate resilience across:
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Remediation & Improvement
- Drive remediation by collaborating with engineering and platform teams
- Ensure experiments are:
- Measurable
- Controlled
- Aligned with service resilience objectives and business criticality
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Resilience Metrics & Reporting
- Define resilience metrics, reporting, and evidence for tracking maturity
- Demonstrate continuous improvement over time
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Resilience-by-Design Principles
- Embed proactive resilience into:
- Engineering practices
- Delivery processes
- Operational readiness
- Run Gamdays (game days) to rehearse failure scenarios and validate:
- Runbooks
- Alerting systems
- On-call readiness
- Foster a resilience-focused team culture
- Embed proactive resilience into:
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Cross-Team Collaboration
- Partner with architecture, SRE, DevOps, infrastructure, security, and support teams
- Align resilience activities with engineering priorities
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Coaching & Mentorship
- Coach engineers in:
- Resilience thinking
- Experiment design
- Chaos engineering best practices
- Coach engineers in:
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Stakeholder Communication
- Clearly communicate:
- Technical findings
- Resilience risks
- Improvement priorities
- Target audience: senior stakeholders and decision-makers
- Clearly communicate:
Requirements
Essential
- University Degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related discipline
- Excellent written & spoken English
- Strong experience in a technical leadership role within:
- Platform engineering
- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
- Cloud engineering
- Resilience engineering (or related discipline)
- Proven track record in designing and implementing chaos engineering, fault injection, or resilience testing practices in complex enterprise environments
- Deep hands-on expertise in:
- Kubernetes (deployment, failure handling, scaling, networking, troubleshooting)
- Strong experience with:
- GCP (Google Cloud Platform)
- Cloud-native platforms (including operational & resilience considerations)
- Strong understanding of:
- Distributed systems
- Failure modes
- System recovery
- Service resilience patterns
- Experience working with:
- Microservices
- APIs
- Platform services
- Cloud-based applications
- Proficiency in observability (metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, service health monitoring)
- Experience with:
- Automation
- CI/CD pipelines
- Engineering tooling to support scalable resilience practices
- Strong problem-solving capabilities (diagnose technical issues, drive practical solutions)
- Excellent stakeholder management & communication skills in:
- Engineering teams
- Senior management
- Resilience mindset with a focus on:
- Proactive risk reduction
- Continuous improvement
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Preferred
- Experience in financial services or another highly regulated environment
- Work with business-critical platforms, prioritising:
- Stability
- Recoverability
- Availability
- Familiarity with:
- SRE principles
- Incident management
- Disaster recovery
- Operational resilience practices
- Experience introducing new engineering capabilities and driving adoption across multiple teams
- Knowledge of the technology stack used within Treasury platforms would be advantageous
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