Ncounter Technology Recruitment
Senior Production Engineer
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Production Engineering Lead
£200,000-£220,000
London, New York, Montreal or Singapore | Permanent
Ncounter is looking for a Production Engineering Lead to take technical and leadership ownership of a global engineering team responsible for the reliability of large-scale, business-critical production infrastructure.
This is an opportunity for an experienced Production Engineer, SRE, Platform Engineer, or Infrastructure Engineer who has remained technically hands-on while progressing into leadership. Financial services experience is not essential. We are particularly interested in engineers from highly scaled technology environments where availability, automation, and operational excellence are fundamental.
You'll lead engineers across multiple regions, maintaining reliable production services while improving how the environment is operated. This includes:
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- Leading major incident recovery
- Removing recurring operational problems
- Building automation and self-service capabilities
- Reducing manual intervention across the platform
The environment spans:
- Linux infrastructure
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD
- Messaging
- Storage
- Distributed platform services
You'll need genuine engineering depth rather than simply managing people, with the credibility to troubleshoot complex production issues alongside your team when required.
We're looking for experience across:
- Deep Linux/Unix systems engineering and troubleshooting
- Python, Go, and/or Bash for automation and tooling
- Kubernetes and containerised production environments
- CI/CD and configuration management
- Infrastructure automation using Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or similar
- Observability using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, or comparable tooling
- Networking fundamentals including TCP/IP and production diagnostics
- Distributed systems, messaging technologies such as Kafka, and large-scale storage
- Leading engineers responsible for high-availability production systems
- Major incident response, root-cause analysis, and eliminating repeat failures
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The successful person will lead a globally distributed function operating across critical production environments, setting engineering standards, improving processes, and developing the team's capability while remaining close enough to the technology to lead from the front.
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