DevOps/SRE Engineer
Skills
About this role
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 • A bility 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