Senior SRE - Global Payments Platform (Hybrid)

Capital One; Farnborough; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - GBP 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services organization in Farnborough is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join their team. In this role, you will enhance the reliability of platforms supporting digital payments and wallets while utilizing tools such as Terraform and Ansible. The ideal candidate will have strong knowledge of cloud platforms and observability tools. This permanent position offers a hybrid working model with flexibility to work from home and the office.

Benefits

Pension scheme

Private medical insurance

Generous holiday entitlement

Flexible benefits (season-ticket loans, cycle to work scheme)

Qualifications

• Strong experience with infrastructure as code for automation.
• Hands-on experience with UNIX environments and Load balancers.
• Real interest in technical documentation and postmortems.

Responsibilities

• Manage the Digital Payments platform for high-volume transactions.
• Diagnose performance, reliability, and security issues in applications.
• Mentor SRE and developers on design solutions.

Skills

Infrastructure as code

Programming (Python/BASH)

Observability tools (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Datadog, Splunk)

Cloud Platforms (AWS/Kubernetes/OpenShift)

Database knowledge (Kafka, Postgres)

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

A financial services organization in Farnborough is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join their team. In this role, you will enhance the reliability of platforms supporting digital payments and wallets while utilizing tools such as Terraform and Ansible. The ideal candidate will have strong knowledge of cloud platforms and observability tools. This permanent position offers a hybrid working model with flexibility to work from home and the office.