GoCardless

GoCardless

London

Site Reliability Engineer

Full-Time£48,000 - 72,000 per yearanteayerUnited Kingdom
IT

Job Description

Salary: £48,000 - 72,000 per year

Requirements:
  • Experience with at least one programming language, such as Python, Ruby, or Golang
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling, such as Terraform
  • Experience with cloud providers such as AWS or GCP
  • Experience with containerized applications
  • Experience with CI/CD tooling such as GitHub, GitHub Actions, or ArgoCD
  • Experience with monitoring tools such as Grafana or Prometheus
  • Experience with relational databases and other data stores, particularly high availability and performance optimization
  • Awareness of DevOps and Agile principles
  • Fluency in English
  • Excellent teamwork and communication skills
  • Experience with Terraform automation tools such as Terragrunt or Atlantis is an advantage
  • Experience with container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes or GKE is an advantage
Responsibilities:
  • Build and maintain automation for new and existing infrastructure
  • Create tools that are easy to understand and maintain
  • Use software development skills to automate operational tasks and reduce toil
  • Help ensure systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
  • Work closely with software engineers and data scientists
  • Contribute to technical design, architecture, and technical decisions
  • Build new platform components from initial design through deployment
  • Support system health and stability through on-call rotations and incident management
  • Maintain and improve platform systems, and support audits and compliance
Technologies:
  • AI
  • AWS
  • ArgoCD
  • CI/CD
  • Cloud
  • Datadog
  • DevOps
  • GCP
  • GitHub
  • Golang
  • Grafana
  • Incident Management
  • Support
  • Kubernetes
  • Prometheus
  • Python
  • Ruby
  • Terraform

More:

We are GoCardless, a Mollie company and global leader in bank payments. More than 100,000 businesses use our platform to collect, manage, and send recurring and one-off payments through Direct Debit, real-time payments, and open banking. We process more than US$130 billion annually across over 30 countries, and our platform includes AI-powered solutions to improve payment success and reduce fraud, as well as connections to more than 350 business platforms. We are headquartered in the UK, with teams and operations across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Our Platform Engineering team is globally distributed, with colleagues in London, Riga, and Lisbon, and works with engineering teams to help them build, release, run, and scale their products. We balance strategic project delivery with operational excellence and use technologies including Python, Ruby, Golang, Terraform, Atlantis, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, GKE, GitHub, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Grafana, Prometheus, and Datadog. We offer a base salary range of 62,400–93,600, with compensation determined by role level, location, market data, experience, interview assessment, budgets, and internal parity. Our benefits include wellbeing support and medical cover, a work-away scheme of up to 90 days per year, flexible working, parental leave, an annual learning budget, generous holiday allowance, three annual volunteer days, and four annual business-wide wellness days. We are guided by our values and committed to diversity, inclusion, accessibility, and sustainability.

last updated 39 week of 2026

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London

IT

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PythonGoRubyAWSGCPKubernetesTerraformGitCI/CDGitHub ActionsAIAgile

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