Site Reliability Engineer – FinTech / Global Payments – London HQ / Remote First

JR United Kingdom; City Of London; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading SaaS FinTech scale-up based in London is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join their team. This role offers a fully remote working option and involves championing SRE practices, monitoring systems, and collaborating with development teams to enhance platform reliability. The company aims to set a new industry standard and support a growing international client base, offering competitive benefits including an annual bonus and generous holiday allowance.

Benefits

Annual Bonus (10%)

30 days holiday plus bank holidays

Life Assurance

Qualifications

• Strong grounding in SRE principles and operational best practices.
• Proficient with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OTEL, Cloudwatch).
• Solid programming skills in Python and/or Go.

Responsibilities

• Champion core SRE practices: define SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, reduce toil through automation.
• Monitor systems to ensure optimal performance and capacity planning.
• Collaborate with development teams to build resilient features.

Skills

SRE principles

Observability tools

Python

Go

Linux fundamentals

Networking fundamentals

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

Containerisation

Job description

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Site Reliability Engineer – FinTech / Global Payments – London HQ / Remote First, London (City of London)

Client: Future Talent Group

Location: London (City of London), United Kingdom

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Views: 1

Posted: 23.05.2025

Expiry Date: 07.07.2025

Job Description:

Site Reliability Engineer – FinTech / Global Payments – London HQ / Remote First

This UK-based team offers a fully remote working option, with a headquarters in Central London.

In this role, you will join a leading SaaS FinTech scale-up, setting a new industry standard within their market. The business aims to scale its platform significantly over the next few years to support a growing international client base.

Responsibilities:

• Champion core SRE practices: define SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, reduce toil through automation, and plan for Disaster Recovery.
• Refine KPIs to support data-driven decisions around reliability and availability.
• Monitor systems to ensure optimal performance, cost-efficiency, and capacity planning.
• Collaborate with development teams to build resilient, observable, and maintainable features.
• Promote DevOps culture by leading knowledge-sharing sessions and supporting issue resolution.

Skills:

• Strong grounding in SRE principles and operational best practices.
• Proficient with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OTEL, Cloudwatch) and telemetry pipelines.
• Solid programming skills in Python and/or Go; Java experience is a plus.
• Strong Linux and networking fundamentals (TCP, DNS, TLS, HTTP).
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins), and Agile workflows.
• Experience with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes) and stream processing (Kafka is a plus).

Benefits include an Annual Bonus (10%), 30 days holiday plus bank holidays, and Life Assurance.

If you are interested, please feel free to apply for a confidential discussion or reach me at [emailprotected].