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

JR United Kingdom; West Midlands Combined Authority; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading SaaS FinTech scale-up as a Site Reliability Engineer. This role offers the chance to work remotely while being part of a team that is setting new industry standards. You'll champion core SRE practices, refine KPIs for data-driven decisions, and collaborate with development teams to build resilient systems. Enjoy a supportive culture that promotes knowledge sharing and continuous improvement. With an annual bonus, generous holiday allowance, and life assurance, this position is perfect for those looking to make a significant impact in a growing international market.

Benefits

Annual bonus

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.

Responsibilities

• Champion core SRE practices: define SLIs/SLOs/SLAs and reduce toil through automation.
• Monitor systems to ensure optimal performance and capacity planning.

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)

Containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes)

Stream processing (Kafka)

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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:

02.05.2025

Expiry Date:

16.06.2025

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 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).

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

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