Enterprise Reliability Architect (Fintech)

TL;DR

Enterprise Reliability Architect (Fintech): Driving enterprise reliability and observability practices across mission-critical banking applications with an accent on telemetry standards and resilience patterns. Focus on designing for operability and scalability, closing systemic reliability gaps, and establishing SRE Centers of Excellence.

Location: Must be based in Prague

Salary: Kč 1,200,000 – 1,650,000 per year

Company

A global financial services leader redefining the future of banking through resilient, observable, and highly scalable technology platforms.

What you will do

• Drive telemetry standards, resilience patterns, and proactive performance engineering across the organization.
• Partner with application and platform teams to improve reliability maturity and influence non-functional architecture.
• Establish monitoring strategies, service health measurements, and performance optimization for multiple services.
• Develop tools and scripts to automate operational processes, reducing manual workload and increasing system resilience.
• Collaborate with development teams to integrate reliability and scalability best practices into the software development lifecycle.
• Act as a technical advisor to guide design decisions and improve reliability maturity at scale.

Requirements

• Experience establishing or scaling reliability, observability, or resilience practices across multiple teams or platforms.
• Strong proficiency with observability and APM tooling such as OpenTelemetry, Elastic, AppDynamics, or Prometheus.
• Proven experience implementing resilience patterns including Retry, Circuit Breaker, Bulkhead, Throttling, and Saga.
• Technical leadership experience in influencing operational readiness and production resilience.
• Location: Must be based in Prague.

Nice to have

• Experience in financial services or other highly regulated, mission-critical environments.
• Knowledge of networking and security fundamentals, including VPC design, IAM, encryption, and secrets management.
• Experience with infrastructure platforms such as Red Hat, Windows, and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and automation tooling for reliable software delivery.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive country-specific benefits package.
• Eligibility for incentive awards.
• Opportunity to work within a Center of Excellence for observability and reliability engineering.
• Culture rooted in Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship.