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

JR United Kingdom; London Fields; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading SaaS FinTech scale-up is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join their London HQ or work remotely. The role involves championing SRE practices, monitoring systems for performance, and collaborating with development teams. Benefits include an annual bonus, generous holiday, and life assurance.

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 telemetry pipelines.
• Solid programming skills in Python and/or Go.

Responsibilities

• Champion core SRE practices: define SLIs/SLOs/SLAs and reduce toil through automation.
• Monitor systems to ensure optimal performance and capacity planning.
• Collaborate with development teams to build resilient features.

Skills

SRE principles

Observability tools

Python

Go

Linux fundamentals

Networking fundamentals

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

Containerization

Stream processing

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Site Reliability Engineer – FinTech / Global Payments – London HQ / Remote First, London (West End)

Client: Future Talent Group

Location: London (West End), United Kingdom

Job Category: Other

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Posted:

23.05.2025

Expiry Date:

07.07.2025

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.

Join a leading SaaS FinTech scale-up, setting a new industry standard within their market. The company 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 Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins), and Agile workflows.
• Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and stream processing (Kafka is a plus).

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

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