Job Specifications
We're Capital on Tap
Capital on Tap was founded with the mission to help small business owners and make their lives easier. Today, we provide an all-in-one business credit card & spend management platform that helps business owners save time and money. Capital on Tap proudly serves over 200,000 businesses across the world and our goal is to help 1 million small businesses by 2030.
Why Join Us?
We empower you to be innovative and solve complex problems. Take ownership, make an impact, and thrive in our scaling and agile environment.
Work Flexibly: This is a Hybrid role, the SRE team work from our London (Moorgate) Offices 2 days per week.
Own Your Impact: Lead initiatives that affect thousands of customers.
Collaborate and Grow: Thrive in a supportive, agile culture that values learning, mentorship, and knowledge sharing.
SRE at Capital On Tap
At Capital On Tap, we run a hybrid embedded SRE model. We aim to work closely with the teams within Capital On Tap to provide them the best support. Our main objective currently is to gain as much visibility into our platform's health while offering scalable solutions.
You'll join our BAR (Banking and Repayments) Team, who are building and scaling payments and card systems, ensuring our financial platform is reliable, accessible, and seamless for users.
What You'll be doing:
As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) you will help ensure our platforms are fast, reliable, and scalable. You'll design, build, and monitor systems, prevent issues before they happen. Using SLAs, SLIs, and SLOs, you'll guide feature launches while maintaining services that everyone can depend on.
Manage and automate Azure, Datadog, NGINX & Cloudflare
Develop and monitor Kubernetes and Serverless resources
Maintain infrastructure code with Terraform & CRDs / Crossplane
Improve systems, processes, and technologies; consult stakeholders to enhance platform performance
Getting involved in new application architecture & design processes
Design solutions to reduce toil, automate repetitive tasks and streamline workflows to reduce manual work and boost team productivity.
Create SLIs and SLOs; increase application visibility
Align with the Product team on SLAs and core service objectives
Collaborate with Platform Engineers for automated solutions and pipelines
Enhance user experience with infrastructure and pipeline optimisation
Support CI/CD tools such as Azure Devops, Octopus Deploy and Flux to streamline software delivery
Lead incident troubleshooting to safeguard customer experience
We're Looking For
Required skills:
Experience in managing a public cloud (Azure advantageous)
Experience in Azure DevOps, Octopus, Flux or other CI/CD tools
Experience with Linux and Microsoft Systems
Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate with multiple teams in an agile environment
Proficient in contributing to IaC technologies involving expertise in writing, managing, and optimising infrastructure with tools such as Terraform and Pulumi
Experience working with a cloud monitoring solution (advantageous to have DataDog)
Experience with Kubernetes and Docker
Nice to have skills:
Experience with Chaos Engineering practices
Experience with IDPs
Experience with software cataloguing
Experience with observability and tracing best practices
Experience in Go (preferred), Powershell (preferred), Python, C# or other scripting languages
Interview Process
First stage: 30 minute intro and values call with Talent Partner (Video call)
Second stage: 75 minute technical & questions with SRE Team lead (Video call)
Final stage: 45 minute CV overview with Head of department & Engineering team (Video call)
Diversity & Inclusion
We welcome, consider and encourage applications from anyone who shares our commitment to inclusivity. Join us in creating a space where authenticity thrives, and everyone can do their best work.
Great Work Deserves Great Perks
We try not to take ourselves too seriously (all the time) so we make sure our office is decked out with a pool table, arcade machine, beer tap, and a couple of office dogs thrown in for good measure. Check out our benefits:
Private Healthcare including dental and opticians services through Vitality
Worldwide travel insurance through Vitality
Anniversary Rewards (£250, £500, £750, 4-week fully paid sabbatical)
Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme up to 7% match
28 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
Annual Learning and Wellbeing Budget
Enhanced Parental Leave
Cycle to Work Scheme
Season Ticket Loan
6 free therapy sessions per year
Dog Friendly Offices
Free drinks and snacks in our offices
Check out more of our benefits, values and mission here.
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If you'd like to progress your career within our fast growing, profitable fintech
About the Company
Capital on Tap provides an all-in-one small business credit card and spend management platform. Capital on Tap makes it easy for small business owners to access funding for their business, manage their employees' expenses, and earn rewards on every pound their business spends.
Launched in 2012, Capital on Tap has spent over 10 years focusing on the needs of small business owners. It has been recognised by Forbes and the Financial Times as one of Europe’s fastest-growing businesses. More than 200,000 small business customers...
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