Founding DevOps Engineer / SRE FinTech fighting Financial Crime Hybrid – Central London (3 days per week, City) £80,000 - £85,000 Equity Benefits Did you know financial fraud costs the UK economy £200bn per year, accounting for over 40% of crime in England and Wales? This early-stage FinTech is building the intelligence layer for payments — technology that investigates transactions in real-time before they clear, helping banks stop scams before money leaves an account. They’re now hiring their first DevOps Engineer to build the reliability foundations of the platform. The Company Mission-driven, high-ownership culture Building infrastructure that banks depend on You’ll be joining at ground floor, helping ensure a system that investigates financial crime runs 24/7/365. The Role: Founding DevOps Engineer This isn’t a “keep the lights on” role. You’ll design and build the reliability, observability and infrastructure foundations that allow a fast-moving engineering team to ship safely. You’ll: Own production reliability, monitoring, alerting, incident response and post-incident learning Build and evolve the Infrastructure as Code (Terraform on GCP) Implement observability across the stack: metrics, logs, traces, dashboards Improve deployment pipelines and release processes Design secure-by-default infrastructure Shape the company’s incident response culture and processes Introduce tooling to monitor AI-native systems and non-deterministic agents You’ll be defining what “good” reliability looks like from day one. ⚙️ Tech Snapshot GCP | Terraform | Cloud Run | Kubernetes (planned) | Python | Kotlin | GitHub Actions | Temporal | Cloud Monitoring & Logging What They’re Looking For 4 years in DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineering Strong Terraform & Infrastructure-as-Code experience Experience running production distributed systems Built monitoring, alerting and observability in real environments Comfortable running incident response and post-mortems Strong understanding of security fundamentals Experience building CI/CD pipelines Bonus points for: Early-stage startup experience (especially as the first DevOps/SRE hire) GCP experience FinTech or other regulated environments Why Join? Founding-level infrastructure ownership Real equity in a high-growth FinTech Solve cutting-edge reliability challenges in AI-driven systems Build systems that protect millions in payments Shape infrastructure and reliability from the ground up If you want to build mission-critical infrastructure that helps stop financial crime, this is your opportunity.