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Fastmarkets

Principal Site Reliability Engineer (Hybrid)

On site

London, United Kingdom

Full Time

12-03-2025

Job Specifications

Fastmarkets is an independent commodity pricing and information organisation with over 600 staff. We are fuelled by values that bring us all together and are united by a collective passion to make a difference. We are supported by a working model that is based on a hybrid approach that allows each of us to balance home and office working while encouraging effective collaboration and accountability.

Fastmarkets is the most trusted Price Reporting Agency (PRA) in the metals, mining, agriculture, forest products, and energy transition markets. Our price data, forecasts, and market analyses give our customers strategic advantage in complex, volatile, often opaque markets. Our events provide forums for market participants to come together, trade, and talk through the critical issues of our times.

We are making a difference. Fastmarkets works to create transparent commodity markets through our reliable and trusted price data and market intelligence. The markets we serve are central to how economies work and are essential for our lives. By doing this, Fastmarkets helps our customers build a more sustainable world. We are built on a 130-year foundation while bringing a digital platform to market, combining the currency of trust with the power of digital.

Most importantly, we are fuelled by our teams that, across the globe, make the amazing possible. With a deep sense of purpose and belonging, we are building an extraordinary future – together. If you would like to help build the future, we hope you will join us on our journey.

Fastmarkets is owned by global private equity firm Astorg, a specialist investor in healthcare, software, technology, business services and technology-based industrial companies.



Job Description

Fastmarkets requires an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer with great DevOps and Stake holder management skills.

To compliment an worldwide existing team we're looking for someone to help us modernise our Azure cloud platforms to a cloud native, containerised fully automated deployment pipelines.

Reporting to the Head of SRE, the correct candidate will have extensive experience in modernising Azure platforms, excel in Infrastructure and code, as well as being comfortable in more traditional DevOps work. This role will also include helping to form an agile culture, working with stakeholders to understand platform requirements and turning them into a best practice, performant and secure platform. Being a senior role it is expected you will help mentor and train other team members and help keep the great team moral already in place.



Qualifications

We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.

If you are open-minded, curious, resilient, solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality, then read on...

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.

This role is required as Fastmarkets are undertaking a fast-paced set of migrations with aggressive timescales. The correct candidate should be comfortable in assisting with the whole process of planning, through deployment and testing and support of the platforms.

Essential

Extensive knowledge of Azure
Advanced networking such as Azure Traffic Manager, Load balancers, DNS, Firewalls, NSGs,
Private endpoints
Virtual Machine management
Automation and orchestration
Terraform
Ansible
GitHub
Azure DevOps
Azure monitoring including app insights
Kubernetes
Bash
PowerShell
Linux
Desirable

SQL Managed Instance
Service fabric
Azure cyber security experience
Azure Active directory experience
Team City
Octopus Deploy
If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.



Additional Information

Our Values

Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It’s this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common – and they form our Fastmarkets values.

Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do. Our values are:

METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers’ experience and our business performance
ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.
You’ve read a little about us – now it’s over to you!

If you like what you’ve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it’s time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it’s used to determine whether or not you’ll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we’ll ask you on the day.

It’s vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you’re great.

About the Company

Who we are Fastmarkets is the most trusted cross-commodity price reporting agency (PRA) in the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and energy transition markets. Our price data, forecasts and market analyses give our customers a strategic advantage in complex, volatile, often opaque markets. Our events provide immersive experiences to network, trade and discuss the critical issues of the day. Fastmarkets combines the commodity intelligence of these familiar names: Metal Bulletin • American Metal Market • Scrap ... Know more

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