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

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

Job summary

Join a leading SaaS FinTech scale-up as a Site Reliability Engineer, where you'll set new industry standards in global payments. This innovative firm is focused on scaling its platform to support an expanding international client base. You'll champion SRE practices, collaborate with development teams, and promote a DevOps culture. Enjoy the flexibility of a fully remote role while working with cutting-edge technologies. With a commitment to excellence, this opportunity offers a dynamic environment to make a real impact in the FinTech space. If you're passionate about reliability and automation, this is the perfect role for you.

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

• Champion core SRE practices and reduce toil through automation.
• Monitor systems for optimal performance and capacity planning.

Skills

SRE principles

Observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OTEL, Cloudwatch)

Python

Go

Java

Linux fundamentals

Networking (TCP, DNS, TLS, HTTP)

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)

Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

Stream processing (Kafka)

Job description

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

Client:

Future Talent Group

Location:

UK-based team offering fully remote working options, with headquarters in Central London.

Job Category:

Other

EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Views:

5

Posted:

08.05.2025

Expiry Date:

22.06.2025

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 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 at [e-mail]