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

JR United Kingdom; Bolton; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a pioneering SaaS FinTech scale-up as a Site Reliability Engineer. This innovative firm is setting new industry standards while offering a fully remote working option. You'll champion core SRE practices, refine KPIs for data-driven decisions, and collaborate with development teams to build resilient and maintainable features. With a focus on promoting a DevOps culture, your contributions will directly impact the reliability and availability of their platform. If you are passionate about driving change in a dynamic environment, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Annual Bonus (10%)

30 days holiday + bank holidays

Life Assurance

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)

Python

Go

Linux fundamentals

Networking fundamentals (TCP, DNS, TLS, HTTP)

IaC (Terraform)

CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)

Containerisation (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

• 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.
• 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]