DevOps/SRE Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Take responsibility for the reliability and scalability of a live fintech platform that processes real financial transactions.

• Design, construct, and uphold cloud infrastructure on AWS, which includes EKS, EC2, RDS, CloudWatch, and IAM.

• Oversee and enhance Kubernetes (EKS) clusters to ensure reliability and optimal performance.

• Implement and refine CI/CD pipelines along with deployment automation.

• Establish observability systems that encompass centralized logging, metrics dashboards, alerting, and distributed tracing.

• Define and monitor SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets across various platform services.

• Lead incident management and response processes, and facilitate post-incident reviews.

• Collaborate with engineers to minimize failure points and support self-healing systems.

• Contribute to the security and compliance posture for FCA and PCI DSS standards.

• Propel initiatives for infrastructure cost optimization and efficiency.

⛳️ Requirements

• 5–7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering positions.

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS and Kubernetes (EKS is preferred).

• Demonstrated experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, with GitLab CI as a preference.

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, using Terraform or a comparable tool.

• Solid comprehension of distributed systems, high availability, and fault tolerance.

• Familiarity with monitoring, alerting, and logging systems in production settings.

• Capability to configure and manage database systems, close to DBA responsibilities.

• Understanding of networking fundamentals and cloud security practices.

• Strong sense of ownership, comfortable working independently and taking full responsibility.

• Experience in fintech, payment systems, or other regulated domains.

• Knowledge of PCI DSS compliance requirements.

• Hands-on experience with OpenSearch / ELK, Prometheus / Grafana, or OpenTelemetry.

• Interest or experience in AIOps or ML-based monitoring and anomaly detection.

• Exposure to event-driven architectures and messaging systems like Kafka / AMQP.

• Experience with AWS services such as EKS, EC2, RDS, CloudWatch, and IAM.

• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Terraform, PostgreSQL, and event-driven message brokers.

• Experience with Java / Spring Boot microservices and external banking and payment integrations.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation aligned with market standards.

• Fully remote work setup.

• Flexible working hours.

• Opportunity to work with an international, highly skilled team.

• Chance to establish SRE practices and observability tooling from the ground up.

• Exposure to a modern cloud-native and observability stack.

• Genuine growth opportunities toward Senior SRE / Platform Lead or Cloud Architect roles.