DevOps/SRE Engineer
About Us
Peratera is a UK-based fintech company, founded in 2022 and authorised by the FCA as an Electronic Money Institution. We are building a modern, all-in-one payment platform that enables businesses to manage global payments and financial operations seamlessly. Our solution allows companies to open multi-currency accounts, send and receive payments worldwide, and manage cross-border transactions from a single platform. Our mission is to simplify global finance and remove friction from international business operations. Your mission As a DevOps / SRE Engineer at Peratera, you will own the reliability and scalability of a live fintech platform processing real financial transactions. You will build and evolve our cloud infrastructure, implement end-to-end observability, and drive automation across deployment and operations - working closely with engineering teams to make systems more resilient, observable, and easy to operate. Your Tech Environment You will work in a modern, cloud-native stack with clear ownership and a defined direction: Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (EKS, EC2, RDS, CloudWatch, IAM), Kubernetes, Docker CI/CD & IaC: GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Terraform (or similar) Observability: Prometheus + Grafana, CloudWatch → OpenSearch / ELK (target), OpenTelemetry (roadmap) Data & Messaging: PostgreSQL, event-driven message brokers (AMQP / Kafka patterns) Platform: Java / Spring Boot microservices, high-load financial transaction processing, external bank and payment integrations What You’ll Do Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS - EKS, EC2, RDS, CloudWatch, IAM Manage and optimise Kubernetes (EKS) clusters for reliability and performance Implement and evolve CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation Build observability systems - centralised logging, metrics dashboards, alerting, and distributed tracing Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets across platform services Lead incident management and response processes; drive post-incident reviews Collaborate with engineers to reduce failure points and enable self-healing systems Contribute to security and compliance posture - FCA, PCI DSS requirements Drive infrastructure cost optimisation and efficiency initiative What We’re Looking For 5–7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles Strong hands-on experience with AWS and Kubernetes (EKS preferred) Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines - GitLab CI preferred Infrastructure as Code experience - Terraform or equivalent Solid understanding of distributed systems, high availability, and fault tolerance Experience with monitoring, alerting, and logging systems in production environments Ability to configure and setup, Db management close to DBA Familiarity with networking fundamentals and cloud security practices Strong ownership mindset - comfortable working autonomously and taking end-to-end responsibility
Nice to Have
Experience in fintech, payments, or other regulated environments Knowledge of PCI DSS compliance requirements Hands-on experience with OpenSearch / ELK, Prometheus / Grafana, or OpenTelemetry Interest or experience in AIOps or ML-based monitoring and anomaly detection Exposure to event-driven architectures and Kafka / AMQP What You’ll Get Competitive, market-aligned compensation - discussed openly at first interview Full ownership of platform reliability on a live fintech product - not a sandbox Opportunity to build SRE practices and observability tooling from the ground up Exposure to modern cloud-native and observability stack Genuine growth path toward Senior SRE / Platform Lead or Cloud Architect Fully remote setup with flexible hours and an international, highly skilled team Sounds like a match? Send us your CV - we’re excited to get to know you. About us Peratera is a UK-based fintech company, founded in 2022 and authorised by the FCA as an Electronic Money Institution. We are building a modern, all-in-one payment platform that enables businesses to manage global payments and financial operations seamlessly. Our solution allows companies to open multi-currency accounts, send and receive payments worldwide, and manage cross-border transactions from a single platform. Our mission is to simplify global finance and remove friction from international business operations. www.peratera.com