Site Reliability Engineer (Kubernetes)

Location: Remote within the UK, with hybrid attendance of at least two days per week or 40% of working time at an office site; London salary applies to the London location.

Salary: £84,051–£93,390 annually; up to £80,780 outside London and £93,390 in London.

Company

hirify.global is a major UK financial services organisation developing digital products and services, including Curve’s platform.

What you will do

• Build, scale, and operate the platforms supporting Curve’s products and services.
• Deploy and maintain production-ready applications on Kubernetes clusters.
• Define infrastructure as code and develop Terraform modules.
• Improve platform reliability, security, observability, resilience, and availability.
• Automate engineering workflows and help scale the platform for millions of customers.
• Contribute to incident post-mortems, technology evaluation, and continuous improvement across engineering teams.

Requirements

• At least two years of experience with a cloud provider such as AWS or GCP.
• Experience deploying production applications to Kubernetes and defining infrastructure as code, ideally with Terraform.
• Experience with a modern programming language such as Go or Python.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across client, network, HTTP, server, database, and operating system layers.
• Experience working in Agile, sprint-based environments and collaborating with engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders.
• Ability to write concise technical documentation and deliver initiatives from concept through launch.

Nice to have

• Experience with Kubernetes EKS, Istio, Prometheus, Grafana, or Coralogix.
• Knowledge of PostgreSQL, MongoDB, HashiCorp Vault, GitLab, Flux, or Helm.
• Knowledge of PCI-compliant infrastructure design.
• Experience in a startup or scale-up environment and with platform automation initiatives.
• Experience evaluating and implementing new infrastructure technologies.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working with workplace adjustments available for colleagues with disabilities.
• Pension contribution of up to 15% and an annual bonus subject to Group performance.
• Share schemes, including free shares, and lifestyle benefits such as discounted shopping.
• 30 days of holiday plus bank holidays.
• Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.
• Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, learning, and professional development.

Hiring process

• Reasonable adjustments are available throughout the recruitment process.
• Applicants meeting the minimum criteria who have a disability, long-term health condition, or are neurodivergent may qualify for an interview through the Disability Confident Scheme.