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

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