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

ZipRecruiter; Altrincham; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading SaaS FinTech scale-up as a Site Reliability Engineer, where you will champion core SRE practices and collaborate closely with development teams. This innovative firm is setting a new industry standard and offers a fully remote working option, allowing you to contribute to a growing international client base. You will refine KPIs, monitor systems for optimal performance, and promote a DevOps culture through knowledge-sharing sessions. With a competitive salary and an annual bonus, this role is perfect for those looking to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Annual Bonus (10%)

30 days holiday + bank holidays

Private Healthcare

Life Assurance

Qualifications

• Strong grounding in SRE principles and operational best practices.
• Proficient with observability tools and telemetry pipelines.
• Hands-on AWS expertise and solid programming skills.

Responsibilities

• Define SLIs/SLOs/SLAs and reduce toil through automation.
• Monitor systems for optimal performance and capacity planning.
• Collaborate with dev teams to build resilient features.

Skills

SRE principles

Observability tools

Python

Go

AWS expertise

Linux fundamentals

IaC (Terraform)

CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)

Containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes)

Stream processing (Kafka)

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Cloudwatch

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Job Description

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

Salary - £80,000 / £85,000 + Bonus

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

In this role, you will be joining 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 dev 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 a plus.
• Hands-on AWS expertise (EKS, SQS, RDS, EC2, Lambda, Cloudwatch, etc.).
• Strong Linux and networking fundamentals (TCP, DNS, TLS, HTTP).
• Familiarity with IaC (Terraform), CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins), and Agile workflows.
• Experience with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes) and stream processing (Kafka a plus).

Benefits

• Annual Bonus (10%)
• 30 days holiday + bank holidays
• Private Healthcare
• Life Assurance

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