Full-Time
Lead Site Reliability Engineer
mthree
501-1,000 employees
Global talent training and placement services
Compensation Overview
$140k - $170k/yr
No H1B Sponsorship
Plano, TX, USA + 2 more
More locations: Charlotte, NC, USA | New York, NY, USA
In Person
On-site role; local candidates in listed cities only. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States.
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- ~10–15+ years inSRE, software engineering, or infrastructure engineering
- Significant experience in hands-on Site Reliability Engineering and implementing SRE practices across large scale, complex services
- Demonstrated experience leading an SRE transformation in a corporate banking environment (or similarly regulated financial services enterprise).
- Proven ability to implement and scale SLO/SLI and error budget approaches, and to operationalize them across multiple teams and services.
- Strong engineering background with the ability to drive automation and reduce manual toil through code, tooling, and process redesign.
- Deep knowledge of incident response, problem management, root cause analysis, and operational resilience practices in mission critical environments.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, able to influence technology and business partners and communicate effectively at senior levels.
- Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. The Company will not sponsor applicants for work visas.
- Lead the design and execution of the SRE adoption approach across Global Banking, including the transition path from traditional L2 support to reliability engineering
- Establish practical engagement patterns between SRE, application teams, and platform teams and help teams adopt a consistent way of working
- Drive adoption of Critical User Journeys, Service Level Indicators, Service Level Objectives, and error budgets for priority services, ensuring metrics reflect user experience and business outcomes
- Help teams implement error budget based decisioning that balances reliability, delivery velocity, and operational risk
- Identify operational toil and lead initiatives to eliminate it through automation, self-healing patterns, runbook automation, and operational tooling improvements
- Establish and implement a model to partner with engineering teams to build reliability into services through design improvements, improved instrumentation, and resilience patterns
- Improve production outcomes through strong incident response practices, including major incident triage support, root cause analysis, post incident reviews, and preventive engineering actions
- Strengthen problem management with a focus on reducing repeat incidents, technical debt risk, and manual intervention
- Establish practical observability standards across logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and alerting to reduce noise, improve signal quality, and shorten time to detect and restore service
- Partner across platform, tooling, and service management teams to align SRE needs to enterprise tooling and processes
- Work with tools like Splunk, Dynatrace, OTEL and instrument end to end observability for services, ensuring teams are able to adopt and use the platforms
- Influence leaders across operations, engineering, and product to adopt SRE principles and measurable reliability goals
- Communicate clearly with senior stakeholders, including executive updates on progress, adoption, and outcomes
- Experience with high-availability banking platforms and 24x7 operational expectations.
- Familiarity with observability tools and building SRE communities of practice.
- Transformation leadership in complex, matrixed environments
- Strong engineering judgment and pragmatic problem solving
- Ability to simplify, standardize, and scale operating practices
- Calm and effective leadership during production events
- Excellent written and verbal communication
mthree is a global talent and training partner that connects graduates and experienced professionals with leading companies in tech, banking, and business. It creates and runs custom training programs through its Train model, ensuring candidates are prepared for their roles and can be placed into positions ranging from entry level to leadership. The company works by partnering with organizations to deliver tailored training solutions, then placing trained talent into roles, which helps clients reduce their hiring and training burden. What sets mthree apart is its emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion, its global reach, and its ability to offer end-to-end pipeline development—from training design to placement—across multiple sectors. The goal is to continuously supply a steady stream of skilled professionals who meet each client’s specific needs and contribute to the client’s workforce goals.
Company Size
501-1,000
Company Stage
Acquired
Total Funding
$323.4M
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Founded
2010
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- CAPSLOCK acquisition expands cybersecurity and AI training capabilities for finance and tech sectors.
- Mthree-Peregrine merger creates a broader UK-US hire-train-deploy platform with cross-selling potential.
- Structured pay rises and inclusive recruitment strengthen candidate retention and talent funnel diversity.
What critics are saying
- CAPSLOCK integration may dilute training quality or niche credibility within 6-12 months.
- Merging private and public sector models risks execution drag and lost scale benefits in 6-18 months.
- Client reliance on direct hiring or cheaper upskilling could reduce placement volume in 12-24 months.
What makes mthree unique
- mthree connects graduates and professionals with tech, banking, and business firms globally.
- It offers custom training programs via its Train model for diverse client roles.
- mthree emphasizes diversity, equity, and inclusion while building skilled talent pipelines.
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6 month growth
↑ 23%1 year growth
↑ 23%2 year growth
↑ 23%Leumi ABL has provided a £10 million asset-based lending facility to support the merger of Mthree and Peregrine International Limited, both portfolio companies of UK private equity firm Inspirit Capital. The deal combines Mthree's private sector recruitment focus with Peregrine's public sector operations in the hire-train-deploy market. The merger aims to deliver increased scale, strengthen management and unlock cross-selling opportunities across both sectors. This marks Leumi ABL's third financing arrangement with Inspirit portfolio companies, following its backing of @Spaldings Ltd's acquisition in June 2023. The combined group operates across the UK and US. Inspirit Capital highlighted asset-based lending's flexibility and scalability for PE-backed businesses, whilst Leumi ABL emphasised its expertise in cross-border transactions and understanding of private equity requirements.