Site Reliability Engineer - FinTech / Global Payments - London HQ / Remote First - #1694199

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

Salary - £80,000 / £85,000 + Bonus

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.


• Hands-on AWS expertise (EKS, SQS, RDS, EC2, Lambda, Cloudwatch, etc.).


• 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

• Annual Bonus (10%)


• 30 days holiday + bank holidays


• Private Healthcare


• Life Assurance

If this is of interest, plesae feel free to apply for a confidential discussion or reach me on *****@futuretalent.io