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

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

Job summary

Join an innovative SaaS FinTech scale-up as a Site Reliability Engineer, where you'll set new industry standards and support a growing international client base. This role offers the flexibility of remote work while being part of a dynamic team focused on enhancing system reliability and performance. You'll champion SRE practices, collaborate with development teams, and promote a DevOps culture. With an attractive benefits package including a 10% annual bonus and generous holiday allowance, this is an exciting opportunity for those passionate about technology and operational excellence.

Benefits

Annual bonus (10%)

30 days holiday plus bank holidays

Life Assurance

Qualifications

• Strong grounding in SRE principles and operational best practices.
• Proficient with observability tools and solid programming skills.
• Experience with containerisation and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Champion core SRE practices and define SLIs/SLOs/SLAs.
• Monitor systems for optimal performance and capacity planning.
• Collaborate with dev teams to build resilient and observable features.

Skills

SRE principles

Observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OTEL, Cloudwatch)

Python

Go

Java

Linux fundamentals

Networking fundamentals (TCP, DNS, TLS, HTTP)

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)

Containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes)

Stream processing (Kafka)

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

Job description

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Site Reliability Engineer – FinTech / Global Payments – London HQ / Remote First, Leeds, West Yorkshire

Client:

Future Talent Group

Location:

Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Views:

4

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 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).

Benefits include an annual bonus (10%), 30 days holiday plus bank holidays, and Life Assurance.

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