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

JR United Kingdom; Manchester; 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 remote-first UK team. This role involves setting standards for reliability and performance, collaborating across teams, and promoting a DevOps culture. Candidates should have a strong grounding in SRE practices, proficient use of observability tools, and solid programming skills. The organization offers competitive salaries, an annual bonus, and generous holiday allowances.

Benefits

Annual Bonus (10%)

30 days holiday + bank holidays

Life Assurance

Qualifications

• Strong grounding in SRE principles and operational best practices.
• Proficient with observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
• Solid programming skills in Python and/or Go.

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 features.

Skills

SRE principles

Observability tools

Python

Go

Linux fundamentals

Networking fundamentals

IaC

CI/CD

Containerisation

Stream processing

Job description

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

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Client:

Future Talent Group

Location:

manchester, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Posted:

31.05.2025

Expiry Date:

15.07.2025

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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, plesae feel free to apply for a confidential discussion or reach me on [emailprotected]