DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer - Up to £150k + Industry Leading Bonus - Elite FinTech Firm
Summary
Build and run large-scale, high-availability Linux infrastructure for a top-tier fintech firm, automating deployments with Python, Kubernetes, and CI/CD while improving reliability and observability.
Job Title: DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer
Client: Most Elite FinTech Firm in London
Salary: Up to £150k+ Bonus + Full Package
Location: London (Hybrid)
One of London’s most elite fintech firms is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to join a seriously strong, flat-structured infrastructure team.
This is the kind of environment where engineers report to engineers, good ideas get implemented quickly, and budget is never the blocker. This is often called a "room full of the smartest people in other rooms"
If you’d typically call yourself a Production Engineer, Platform Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, Linux Engineer, DevOps Engineer or SRE, there is a home for you in this team!
- Flexible hours + hybrid working (brand new skyline office in London on a hybrid basis)
- Work in one of the most technically advanced teams in the country
- Heavy investment in cutting-edge and next-gen tech
- Flat structure, low ego, high talent
- Startup-style ownership backed by major resources
- Real autonomy to build, improve and automate
The Role
You’ll sit within an elite Linux-focused infrastructure team responsible for designing and running large-scale, high-availability systems.
This is hands‑on engineering. You’ll be:
- Building and evolving resilient, multi‑petabyte infrastructure
- Writing Python to automate anything manual or repetitive
- Improving CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows
- Working closely with engineers across the business to improve reliability and performance
- Enhancing observability, monitoring and system transparency
- Driving automation across config management and container environments
What they’re looking for (or a willingness to learn the below)
- 2–15 years’ experience working deeply with Linux
- Experience with CI/CD tooling
- Exposure to Docker and container ecosystems
- Experience with Ansible, Chef, Puppet or similar
- Experience working with large‑scale bare‑metal environments
- Familiarity with monitoring/observability tooling
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Database experience (MySQL/Postgres)
- Strong ownership mindset and ability to operate in fast‑paced environments
This is a chance to join a genuinely elite engineering team in London, working on serious‑scale infrastructure with the freedom and backing to do things properly.