SRE Lead: Scale Global Fintech Reliability

Fintech Farm Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Share options

Collaborative environment

Job summary

Fintech Farm Ltd in the United Kingdom is seeking a Lead SRE to enhance the reliability of their multi-market microservices infrastructure. You'll lead a team focused on automation and ensuring zero-downtime service delivery in a fast-scaling fintech environment.

The ideal candidate will have over 6 years of experience, deep expertise in Kubernetes, and a passion for mentoring engineers. With competitive salary and share options, this is an exciting opportunity to shape the SRE function.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in DevOps/SRE roles, with at least 2 years in a technical leadership position.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes (EKS and on-prem), Prometheus, Grafana, and alerting systems.
• Strong background in AWS and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Terragrunt).
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI/CD or GitHub Actions).
• Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash) and automation tooling (Ansible, Helm).

Responsibilities

• Build and define the SRE function, establishing best practices for reliability.
• Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters, ensuring scalability and resilience.
• Oversee observability and alerting stack, including Prometheus and Grafana.
• Drive improvements in infrastructure as code using Terraform.
• Collaborate closely with software and DevOps teams to ensure production readiness.

Skills

Leadership

System stability

Communication

Incident response

Mentoring

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

AWS

Ansible

GitLab CI/CD

Job description

Fintech Farm Ltd in the United Kingdom is seeking a Lead SRE to enhance the reliability of their multi-market microservices infrastructure. You'll lead a team focused on automation and ensuring zero-downtime service delivery in a fast-scaling fintech environment.

The ideal candidate will have over 6 years of experience, deep expertise in Kubernetes, and a passion for mentoring engineers. With competitive salary and share options, this is an exciting opportunity to shape the SRE function.