Lead Site Reliability Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Lead Site Reliability Engineer (Fintech): Designing, implementing, and maintaining robust, scalable cloud infrastructure on GCP with an accent on Kubernetes, Terraform, and modern observability tooling. Focus on defining SRE practices, improving CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring security best practices for a high-growth fintech platform.

Location: London, Waterloo (Hybrid, 4 days in-office, with Wednesday as a set work-from-home day)

Company

hirify.global is disrupting the property asset class, making real estate investment accessible to everyone globally with £2Bn+ assets and 30,000+ users.

What you will do

• Take infrastructure and reliability initiatives from concept to production in cross-functional teams.
• Build and maintain robust, scalable infrastructure on GCP using Kubernetes, Terraform, and Cloudflare.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to design CI/CD pipelines and champion reliability as a core principle.
• Define SRE practices for a high-growth fintech platform and mentor other engineers.
• Deploy AI-powered product features in isolated and secure serverless environments.
• Implement comprehensive monitoring and observability using Prometheus and Grafana.

Requirements

• 5+ years in SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering roles with production-grade infrastructure experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, and Docker.
• Proficiency in Terraform for infrastructure as code.
• Experience with Cloudflare services, including Workers, DNS, CDN, and security features.
• Experience implementing and managing observability stacks with Prometheus and Grafana.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD principles, pipeline design, and deployment strategies.
• Experience with cloud networking, security groups, VPCs, and network peering.
• Solid scripting skills (Shell, Python, or similar).

Nice to have

• Experience with blue-green or canary deployment techniques.
• Familiarity with programming languages like Go or TypeScript.
• Background in implementing security automation and quality gates.
• Understanding of SRE principles: SLIs, SLOs, error budgets.
• Experience with edge computing and serverless architectures.
• Track record of mentoring engineers and fostering a culture of reliability.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in cross-functional product teams with ownership and freedom.
• Committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, religion, or background.
• A diverse team with 22 nationalities across 5 countries.
• Hybrid work environment with a set work-from-home day.
• Focus on design accessibility and an inclusive culture.