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Founding DevOps Engineer - Up to £85k

Founding DevOps Engineer - Up to £85k

Hybrid

London, United kingdom

£ 85,000 /year

Junior

Full Time

12-03-2026

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Skills

Python Kotlin Incident Response GitHub CI/CD DevOps Kubernetes Monitoring Accounting GCP CI/CD Pipelines Terraform Infrastructure as Code GitHub Actions

Job Specifications

Founding DevOps Engineer / SRE

FinTech fighting Financial Crime

Hybrid – Central London (3 days per week, City)

£80,000 - £85,000 + Equity + Benefits

Did you know financial fraud costs the UK economy £200bn+ per year, accounting for over 40% of crime in England and Wales?

This early-stage FinTech is building the intelligence layer for payments — technology that investigates transactions in real-time before they clear, helping banks stop scams before money leaves an account.

They’re now hiring their first DevOps Engineer to build the reliability foundations of the platform.

The Company

< 20 people
Mission-driven, high-ownership culture
Building infrastructure that banks depend on
You’ll be joining at ground floor, helping ensure a system that investigates financial crime runs 24/7/365.

The Role: Founding DevOps Engineer

This isn’t a “keep the lights on” role. You’ll design and build the reliability, observability and infrastructure foundations that allow a fast-moving engineering team to ship safely.

You’ll:

Own production reliability, monitoring, alerting, incident response and post-incident learning
Build and evolve the Infrastructure as Code (Terraform on GCP)
Implement observability across the stack: metrics, logs, traces, dashboards
Improve deployment pipelines and release processes
Design secure-by-default infrastructure
Shape the company’s incident response culture and processes
Introduce tooling to monitor AI-native systems and non-deterministic agents
You’ll be defining what “good” reliability looks like from day one.

Tech Snapshot

GCP | Terraform | Cloud Run | Kubernetes (planned) | Python | Kotlin | GitHub Actions | Temporal | Cloud Monitoring & Logging

What They’re Looking For

4+ years in DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineering
Strong Terraform & Infrastructure-as-Code experience
Experience running production distributed systems
Built monitoring, alerting and observability in real environments
Comfortable running incident response and post-mortems
Strong understanding of security fundamentals
Experience building CI/CD pipelines

Bonus points for:

Early-stage startup experience (especially as the first DevOps/SRE hire)
GCP experience
FinTech or other regulated environments

Why Join?

Founding-level infrastructure ownership
Real equity in a high-growth FinTech
Solve cutting-edge reliability challenges in AI-driven systems
Build systems that protect millions in payments
Shape infrastructure and reliability from the ground up

If you want to build mission-critical infrastructure that helps stop financial crime, this is your opportunity.

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