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

JR United Kingdom; London; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic SaaS FinTech scale-up as a Site Reliability Engineer, where you'll champion core SRE practices and drive reliability within a forward-thinking team. This innovative firm is set to redefine industry standards while scaling its platform for a growing international client base. Embrace the opportunity to work fully remotely or from their London HQ, collaborating with talented developers to build resilient features and promote a DevOps culture. With a focus on automation and data-driven decisions, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring system performance and availability. If you're passionate about SRE and looking for a rewarding challenge, this position is perfect for you.

Benefits

Annual Bonus (10%)

30 days holiday + bank holidays

Life Assurance

Qualifications

• Strong grounding in Site Reliability Engineering principles and operational best practices.
• Proficient with observability tools and solid programming skills in Python or Go.

Responsibilities

• Champion core SRE practices and reduce toil through automation.
• Monitor systems for optimal performance and collaborate with development teams.

Skills

SRE principles

Observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OTEL, Cloudwatch)

Python programming

Go programming

Linux fundamentals

Networking fundamentals (TCP, DNS, TLS, HTTP)

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)

Agile workflows

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

• 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]