Site Reliability Engineer
GoCardless2 months ago
London, United KingdomMid Level
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain automation for new and existing cloud infrastructure.
- Build new platform components from initial design through deployment.
- Provide operational support through on-call rotations and incident management.
- Automate operational tasks and reduce toil using software development skills.
- Ensure systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats.
- Contribute to technical architecture design and infrastructure decisions.
- Maintain and continuously improve systems while supporting audits and compliance.
- Work closely with software engineers and data scientists.
Requirements
- Experience with at least one programming language such as Python, Ruby, or Golang.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Terraform.
- Experience with cloud providers such as AWS or GCP.
- Experience with containerized applications.
- Experience with CI/CD tooling such as GitHub, GitHub Actions, or ArgoCD.
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Grafana or Prometheus.
- Experience with relational databases and other datastores, particularly high availability and performance optimization.
- Fluency in English.
- Strong teamwork and communication skills.
- Experience with Terraform automation tools such as Terragrunt or Atlantis is advantageous.
- Experience with container orchestration such as Kubernetes or GKE is advantageous.
- Awareness of DevOps and Agile principles.
Benefits
- Base salary range is £62,400–£93,600 per year.
- Dedicated wellbeing support and medical cover.
- Work away scheme allowing up to 90 days outside the country of residence in any 12-month period.
- Adaptive working with flexible arrangements.
- Parental leave.
- Annual learning budget.
- Generous holiday allowance, three annual volunteer days, and four annual business-wide wellness days.
- Teams are globally distributed across London, Riga, and Lisbon.
Tech Stack
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
About GoCardless
GoCardless builds a bank payment platform for businesses to collect recurring and one-off payments via Direct Debit, real-time payments, and open banking, with APIs and 350+ integrations. It monetizes through payment processing fees and add-ons for payment success and fraud reduction. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in London, it serves 100,000+ businesses and processes over US$130 billion annually across 30+ countries.