DevOps/SRE Engineer

About Us Peratera is a UK-based fintech company, founded in 2022 and authorised by the FCA as an Electronic Money Institution. We are building a modern, all-in-one payment platform that enables businesses to manage global payments and financial operations seamlessly. Our solution allows companies to open multi-currency accounts, send and receive payments worldwide, and manage cross-border transactions from a single platform. Our mission is to simplify global finance and remove friction from international business operations. Your mission As a DevOps / SRE Engineer at Peratera, you will own the reliability and scalability of a live fintech platform processing real financial transactions. You will build and evolve our cloud infrastructure, implement end-to-end observability, and drive automation across deployment and operations - working closely with engineering teams to make systems more resilient, observable, and easy to operate. Your Tech Environment You will work in a modern, cloud-native stack with clear ownership and a defined direction: Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (EKS, EC2, RDS, CloudWatch, IAM), Kubernetes, Docker CI/CD & IaC: GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Terraform (or similar) Observability: Prometheus + Grafana, CloudWatch → OpenSearch / ELK (target), OpenTelemetry (roadmap) Data & Messaging: PostgreSQL, event-driven message brokers (AMQP / Kafka patterns) Platform: Java / Spring Boot microservices, high-load financial transaction processing, external bank and payment integrations What You’ll Do Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS - EKS, EC2, RDS, CloudWatch, IAM Manage and optimise Kubernetes (EKS) clusters for reliability and performance Implement and evolve CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation Build observability systems - centralised logging, metrics dashboards, alerting, and distributed tracing Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets across platform services Lead incident management and response processes; drive post-incident reviews Collaborate with engineers to reduce failure points and enable self-healing systems Contribute to security and compliance posture - FCA, PCI DSS requirements Drive infrastructure cost optimisation and efficiency initiative What We’re Looking For 5–7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles Strong hands-on experience with AWS and Kubernetes (EKS preferred) Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines - GitLab CI preferred Infrastructure as Code experience - Terraform or equivalent Solid understanding of distributed systems, high availability, and fault tolerance Experience with monitoring, alerting, and logging systems in production environments A bility to configure and setup, Db management close to DBA Familiarity with networking fundamentals and cloud security practices Strong ownership mindset - comfortable working autonomously and taking end-to-end responsibility Nice to Have 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 or experience in AIOps or ML-based monitoring and anomaly detection Exposure to event-driven architectures and Kafka / AMQP What You’ll Get Competitive, market-aligned compensation - discussed openly at first interview Full ownership of platform reliability on a live fintech product - not a sandbox Opportunity to build SRE practices and observability tooling from the ground up Exposure to modern cloud-native and observability stack Genuine growth path toward Senior SRE / Platform Lead or Cloud Architect Fully remote setup with flexible hours and an international, highly skilled team Sounds like a match? Send us your CV - we’re excited to get to know you. About us Peratera is a UK-based fintech company, founded in 2022 and authorised by the FCA as an Electronic Money Institution. We are building a modern, all-in-one payment platform that enables businesses to manage global payments and financial operations seamlessly. Our solution allows companies to open multi-currency accounts, send and receive payments worldwide, and manage cross-border transactions from a single platform. Our mission is to simplify global finance and remove friction from international business operations. www.peratera.com