Site Reliability Engineer – Fintech

Client: US fintech (payments platform) · Location: remote, LATAM, US Eastern overlap · Level: senior · Engagement: full-time contractor, on-call rotation

You will keep a payments platform on AWS reliable and compliant, owning SLOs, incident response and the automation behind both.

What you will do

• Define and track SLOs and error budgets for payment-critical services

• Operate Kubernetes (EKS) workloads and the Terraform code that provisions them

• Run incident response and blameless postmortems, and drive the follow-up work

• Build observability with Datadog or Prometheus/Grafana and OpenTelemetry

• Automate deployments, rollbacks and capacity management

• Support PCI DSS and SOC 2 controls with evidence and tooling

What you bring

• 5+ years in SRE, DevOps or production engineering

• Strong AWS, Kubernetes and Terraform

• Coding ability in Go or Python

• Experience with on-call for high-availability, transaction-processing systems

• Advanced English

Nice to have

• Fintech or regulated-industry background

• Chaos engineering and load testing practice

• AWS certifications