Site Reliability Engineer (Cloud Banking)

Location: London, United Kingdom; hybrid

Company

hirify.global develops cloud-native core banking and payments technology for financial institutions, with offices in London, New York, Singapore, Sydney, and Lisbon.

What you will do

• Support product engineering teams in building fault-tolerant and scalable applications through design discussions, RFCs, and code reviews.
• Automate fleet management and contribute to disaster recovery, backup, redundancy, and capacity planning strategies.
• Participate in a global on-call rotation to identify and resolve bottlenecks in SaaS customer environments.
• Maintain production systems hosting Vault products and implement and test resilience and fault-tolerance strategies.
• Define and design reliability-focused SaaS product features that improve the customer experience.
• Document operational assets, processes, and runbooks while mentoring team members and promoting engineering best practices.

Requirements

• Track record of delivering high-impact projects focused on long-term scalability and reducing manual intervention as usage grows.
• Current understanding of hosting and networking architecture design patterns.
• Strong professional experience with either Python or Golang, including a significantly sized project or initiative.
• Experience with Kubernetes or another container orchestration system.
• Experience with automation or configuration management tools such as Terraform, Puppet, Chef, or Ansible.
• Extensive experience with GCP or AWS, plus expertise in database administration, networking, observability tools, or automation infrastructure.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with flexible working hours.
• Pension contributions matched up to 5% and life insurance worth three times annual salary.
• Paid maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave.
• 25 days of holiday plus bank holidays and two charity days per year.
• Learning materials, courses, subsidised sports and hobby clubs, and the latest technology.
• Cycle-to-work and electric car schemes, season ticket loan, and office food and drinks.