SRE Engineer / DevOps Engineer

At Paysend, we're on a mission to deliver the World's Simplest Money Transfer.

Paysend is a next-generation integrated global payment ecosystem, enabling consumers and businesses to pay and send money online anywhere, anyhow and in any currency. Paysend is UK-based and has global reach having been created in April 2017 with the clear mission to change how money is moved around the world. Paysend currently supports cross-network operability globally across Mastercard, Visa, China UnionPay and local ACH and payment schemes, providing over 40 payment methods for online SMEs.

Paysend can send money to over 170 countries worldwide and has attracted more than seven million consumers to its platform. As a global end-to-end payment platform, Paysend has a global network of banks and international and local payment systems and has partnerships with the major international card networks Visa, Mastercard and China Union Pay as a principal members and certified processors.

Our success is built on supreme technology, friendly customer service and, of course, the very best talent in the FinTech industry. We’re looking for the future gamechangers of FinTech to join us as we positively disrupt the personal and business payments markets and make financial services more accessible and inclusive for individuals and small businesses around the world.

Every day is a new challenge at Paysend, and we approach each project with ambition, innovation and creativity.

What's the role about

The SRE Engineer plays a critical role in maintaining and enhancing the reliability and performance of the company's systems, contributing technical expertise to the SRE team.

What you’ll be doing

1. Implement and maintain site reliability tools and practices.
2. Collaborate with development teams to ensure system scalability and reliability.
3. Participate in system troubleshooting and resolution of complex issues, drafting competent postmortems, improving the stability of the service
4. Contribute to automation efforts to streamline operations.
5. Assist in system performance analysis and improvement initiatives.
6. Perform Releases and maintain Production Environment SLA
7. Implementation and maintenance of tools for automating the development and delivery of applications to test and product environments
8. Assisting in the design, selection and development of software platforms, planning infrastructure and resources
9. Involvement in the entire services life cycle - from creation and design to deployment, operation and revision

What you’ll need to be successful in the role

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 2+ years of experience in a site reliability engineering role.
• Familiarity with cloud environments and containerization technologies.
• Experience in system reliability and automation.

Technical Skills:

• Proficiency in Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud services.
• Good understanding of scripting languages like Python or PowerShell.
• Has experience with CI / CD automation tools based on (Gitlab, Azure DevOps);
• Has experience in deploying monitoring tools: Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, ELK;
• Use Linux at the level of confident administration;
• Use tools for configuration management: ansible, puppet;

Why Paysend?

We’re looking for people who share our passion for innovation, buy into the Paysend ethos and add value to our team. When you join Paysend, you’ll have the chance to grow and develop as the business does.

We believe in empowering people to be successful in their jobs, and we pay them fairly for their expertise. We give everyone the context and tools to operate as business owners and encourage our people to contribute with their hearts, minds and creativity.

In the fast-paced FinTech industry the Paysend journey may not always be easy, but we succeed by working together to create solutions that break the status quo. We employ the right people to help us steer the business towards success and global influence.

If Paysend sounds like the perfect company for you, we’d love to hear from you!