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

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

Job summary

Join a pioneering SaaS FinTech scale-up as a Site Reliability Engineer, where you will lead the charge in establishing industry standards. This innovative firm focuses on scaling its platform to support a rapidly growing international client base. You will champion core SRE practices, refine KPIs for reliability, and collaborate with development teams to enhance system observability and resilience. With a fully remote working option and a commitment to a DevOps culture, this role offers an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in the FinTech landscape.

Benefits

30 days holiday plus 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 programming

Go programming

Java programming

Linux fundamentals

Networking fundamentals (TCP, DNS, TLS, HTTP)

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)

Containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes)

Stream processing (Kafka)

Job description

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

Client:

Future Talent Group

Location:

Leigh, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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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 join a leading SaaS FinTech scale-up, setting a new industry standard within their market. The business aims to significantly scale its platform 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 development 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 is 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 is a plus).
• Annual Bonus (10%)
• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Life Assurance

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