UK Remote Job – DevOps/SRE Engineer at Peratera

Job Title: DevOps/SRE Engineer
Employer: Peratera
Job Type: Remote
Location: United Kingdom
Salary/Rate: Not Specified
UK Skilled Worker Visa Sponsorship: Not Available

Description

• Oversee the reliability and scalability of a live fintech platform processing real financial transactions.
• Design, build, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure, including EKS, EC2, RDS, CloudWatch, and IAM.
• Manage and optimise Kubernetes (EKS) clusters to ensure reliability and performance.
• Implement and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Build observability systems, including centralised logging, metrics dashboards, alerting, and distributed tracing.
• Define and monitor Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and error budgets across platform services.
• Lead incident management and response processes and conduct post-incident reviews.
• Collaborate with engineers to reduce system failure points and implement self-healing systems.
• Support security and compliance requirements, including Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) requirements.
• Drive infrastructure cost optimisation and operational efficiency initiatives.

Requirements

• 5–7+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Platform Engineering roles.
• Strong hands‑on experience with AWS and Kubernetes, preferably Amazon EKS.
• Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, preferably using GitLab CI.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or equivalent.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, high availability, and fault tolerance.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, and logging systems in production environments.
• Ability to configure and set up databases and manage database operations at a level close to a Database Administrator (DBA).
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals and cloud security practices.
• Strong sense of ownership, with the ability to work independently and take end‑to‑end responsibility.
• Experience in fintech, payments, or other regulated environments.
• Knowledge of PCI DSS compliance requirements.
• Hands‑on experience with OpenSearch/ELK, Prometheus/Grafana, or OpenTelemetry.
• Interest in or experience with AIOps, machine‑learning‑based monitoring, and anomaly detection.
• Exposure to event‑driven architectures and messaging technologies such as Kafka or AMQP.
• Experience with AWS services, including EKS, EC2, RDS, CloudWatch, and IAM.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Terraform, PostgreSQL, and event‑driven message brokers.
• Familiarity with Java/Spring Boot microservices and external banking and payment integrations.
• Competitive, market‑aligned compensation.
• Fully remote working arrangement.
• Opportunity to work with an international team of highly skilled professionals.
• Opportunity to build SRE practices and observability tools from the ground up.
• Exposure to modern cloud‑native technologies and observability tools.
• Clear career progression opportunities towards Senior SRE, Platform Lead, or Cloud Architect roles.

Benefits

• Competitive, market‑aligned compensation.
• Fully remote working arrangement.
• Flexible working hours.
• Opportunity to work with an international team of highly skilled professionals.
• Opportunity to build SRE practices and observability tools from the ground up.
• Exposure to modern cloud‑native technologies and observability tools.
• Clear career progression opportunities towards Senior SRE, Platform Lead, or Cloud Architect roles.