Lead Site Reliability Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Lead Site Reliability Engineer (Fintech): Designing, implementing, and maintaining cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security, working in cross-functional product teams. Focus on enabling developer productivity through self-service tooling, clear documentation, and automation of operational tasks.

Location: Hybrid, 4 days in-office in London, Waterloo - Wednesday is set work from home day, though you can come in on Wednesday too if you wish

Company

hirify.global is disrupting one of the world's largest asset classes, property.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), ensuring scalability, reliability, and security.
• Own Kubernetes clusters and containerization strategy.
• Build and evolve Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, creating modular, testable, well-documented configurations that scale with rapid growth.
• Manage and optimize Cloudflare infrastructure, including Workers for edge computing, DNS, CDN, security policies, and performance optimization.
• Implement comprehensive monitoring and observability using Prometheus and Grafana, defining SLIs/SLOs, and proactively identifying issues before they impact users.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines with appropriate quality gates, testing strategies, and deployment techniques (blue-green, canary) to enable fast, safe releases.

Requirements

• 5+ years in SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering roles with production-grade infrastructure experience
• Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Expert-level knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker - you've deployed, managed, and troubleshot production clusters
• 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

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

Culture & Benefits

• Encourage applications from all sections of society and believe in the criticality of an inclusive culture.
• Committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other basis as protected by law.
• 42% of employees identify as female or non-specified, 58% as male.
• 22 nationalities represented across offices in 5 countries.