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

JR United Kingdom; Altrincham; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an innovative FinTech scale-up as a Site Reliability Engineer, where you'll set industry standards and drive the reliability of their platform. This role offers the flexibility of remote work while collaborating with talented teams to enhance system performance and foster a DevOps culture. You'll be at the forefront of defining key metrics, automating processes, and ensuring the platform's resilience as it scales to meet international demands. With a strong focus on observability and automation, this position is perfect for those passionate about pushing the boundaries of technology in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

30 days holiday + bank holidays

Annual Bonus (10%)

Life Assurance

Qualifications

• Strong grounding in SRE principles and operational best practices.
• Proficient with observability tools and telemetry pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Champion core SRE practices and define SLIs/SLOs/SLAs.
• Monitor systems for optimal performance and cost-efficiency.

Skills

SRE principles

Observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OTEL, CloudWatch)

Python programming

Go programming

Linux fundamentals

Networking fundamentals (TCP, DNS, TLS, HTTP)

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)

Agile workflows

Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

Stream processing (Kafka)

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

Client: Future Talent Group

Location: Altrincham, United Kingdom

Job Category: Other

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Posted:

28.04.2025

Expiry Date:

12.06.2025

Job Description:

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

Location: 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 significantly scale its platform 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 containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and stream processing (Kafka is a plus).
• Annual Bonus (10%)
• 30 days holiday + bank holidays
• Life Assurance

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