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

JR United Kingdom; Ashton-under-Lyne; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading SaaS FinTech scale-up as a Site Reliability Engineer in a fully remote role. You will champion core SRE practices, refine KPIs, and collaborate with development teams to build resilient and maintainable features. This innovative firm is set to scale its platform significantly, supporting a growing international client base. With a focus on automation and a DevOps culture, you will play a key role in defining service levels and ensuring system reliability. Enjoy a competitive salary, annual bonus, and generous holiday allowance while making a significant impact in the industry.

Benefits

30 days holiday + bank holidays

Life Assurance

Annual Bonus (10%)

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Define SLIs/SLOs/SLAs and reduce toil through automation.
• Monitor systems for optimal performance and capacity planning.

Skills

SRE principles

Observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OTEL, Cloudwatch)

Programming (Python, Go, Java)

Linux fundamentals

Networking fundamentals (TCP, DNS, TLS, HTTP)

IaC (Terraform)

CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)

Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

Stream processing (Kafka)

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 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

1. Champion core SRE practices: define SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, reduce toil through automation, and plan for Disaster Recovery.
2. Refine KPIs to support data-driven decisions around reliability and availability.
3. Monitor systems to ensure optimal performance, cost-efficiency, and capacity planning.
4. Collaborate with dev teams to build resilient, observable, and maintainable features.
5. 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.
• 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).
• Annual Bonus (10%)
• 30 days holiday + bank holidays
• Life Assurance

If this is of interest, please feel free to apply for a confidential discussion or reach me on [emailprotected]