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

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

Job summary

A leading SaaS FinTech scale-up, headquartered in Central London, is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer. This role offers a fully remote working option and an opportunity to significantly impact the company's platform scalability. Ideal candidates will have strong SRE principles, programming skills, and familiarity with DevOps practices. You'll collaborate with development teams to enhance system reliability and performance while enjoying competitive benefits, including an annual bonus and generous holiday entitlement.

Benefits

30 days holiday + bank holidays

Annual Bonus (10%)

Life Assurance

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

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

Skills

SRE principles

Observability tools

Python

Linux fundamentals

Networking

IaC (Terraform)

Containerisation (Docker)

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

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Client:

Future Talent Group

Location:

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