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!
Why join?
* 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
* Strong Python skills (automation/scripting)
* 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
* Solid networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, etc.)
* Familiarity with monitoring/observability tooling
* Experience with Kubernetes
* Exposure to distributed storage systems
* Database experience (MySQL/Postgres)
* Messaging systems experience
* 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.