Job Description
Founding DevOps Engineer / SRE
FinTech fighting Financial Crime (Series A)
Hybrid – Central London (3 days per week, City)
£90,000 - £110,000 + 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 Series-A 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
* < 20 people
* 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.