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

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 scott@futuretalent.io

Location: The City, GB

Posted Date: 5/2/2025