SRE - DevOps

Job Description

We are looking for a SRE - DevOps to join our fast-growing FinTech!

We're looking for an enthusiastic and driven DevOps to join our dynamic and growing team. At Navro, we value diversity and are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels supported and empowered to contribute their unique perspectives. 

At Navro, we're not just offering a job - we're offering an adventure alongside a great team.

Who we are

We are transforming payments for global platforms and e-commerce businesses. As the world’s first payments curation platform, we simplify cross-border transactions by uniting best-in-class infrastructure into a seamless ecosystem, enabling businesses to scale and operate effortlessly across borders.

Our platform empowers businesses to pay international workforces, sellers, and suppliers quickly and reliably while optimising costs and enhancing payment experiences. By combining innovation with compliance and scalability, we are shaping the future of payments for modern global businesses and their ecosystems.

We are building a workplace that encourages growth, development, and fun. Working in a startup can be both rewarding and challenging, we’ll be with you throughout the highs and lows as one team. We need people who have passion, resilience, and willingness to find solutions, not just problems, and work well within our global team of almost 30 nationalities. 

The role 

Although your primary responsibility will be to focus on keeping our platform reliable, you are obsessed with eliminating toil through automation and are a champion for continuous improvement through experimentation, retrospection, and innovation.

We are deploying to K8S with ArgoCD on AWS, but remain somewhat cloud agnostic as we are pursuing a multi-cloud strategy.

Requirements

Key responsibilities:

• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools like ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, and Terraform.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and monitor SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Contribute to the reliability, availability, and performance of cloud-native, API-first applications on Kubernetes and AWS.
• Support and optimise deployment pipelines while adhering to modern development practices, including the 12 Factor pp methodology.
• Troubleshoot, perform root cause analysis, and assist in post-mortem reviews for incidents.
• Assist in enhancing system observability through tools like DataDog and Kibana, and contribute to monitoring best practices.
• Participate in chaos engineering initiatives to improve system resilience.
• Work towards ensuring infrastructure aligns with the AWS Well-Architected Framework while supporting a multi-cloud strategy.

To be successful in this role, you:

• Ideally have or are working towards AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional or AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional certification (Navro can support certification costs).
• Are a Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or have equivalent knowledge, or are committed to achieving certification during your probationary period.
• Have hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with tools like ArgoCD, Terraform, or GitHub Actions.
• Understand SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets and can apply these concepts to support system reliability.
• Have some exposure to chaos engineering practices and an interest in expanding your knowledge in this area.
• Are familiar with observability tools like DataDog or Kibana and general monitoring practices.
• Have a strong understanding of cloud-native technologies, Kubernetes, and AWS services.
• Are eager to collaborate in a diverse, inclusive environment where psychological safety is a priority.
• Have excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to contribute to technical discussions.
• Have prior experience in Payments, FinTech, or similar industries (preferred, but not required).

Benefits

As part of this role you will receive the following:

• You will enjoy 26 days of annual leave (excluding Bank holidays)
• Volunteering & Compassionate leaves
• Private Healthcare 
• Company Options Scheme
• Team socials and annual company off-sites
• Comprehensive, interactive & engaging Training - Leadership, Communication and Presentation Skills, Behavioural Profiling, Conflict Management, etc
• Career frameworks
• Flexibility surrounding other commitments; within your team we will work around child-care or other appointments you have. We just ask for advance notice!
• Working in a diverse and inclusive environment where we ensure that our people thrive

Navro does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Navro will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s).  Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.