About the role

What will you do at IT MATE?

Client: US fintech (payments platform) · Location: remote, LATAM, US Eastern overlap · Level: senior · Engagement: full-time contractor, on-call rotation

You will keep a payments platform on AWS reliable and compliant, owning SLOs, incident response and the automation behind both.

What you will do

* Define and track SLOs and error budgets for payment-critical services
* Operate Kubernetes (EKS) workloads and the Terraform code that provisions them
* Run incident response and blameless postmortems, and drive the follow-up work
* Build observability with Datadog or Prometheus/Grafana and OpenTelemetry
* Automate deployments, rollbacks and capacity management
* Support PCI DSS and SOC 2 controls with evidence and tooling
What you bring
* 5+ years in SRE, DevOps or production engineering
* Strong AWS, Kubernetes and Terraform
* Coding ability in Go or Python
* Experience with on-call for high-availability, transaction-processing systems
* Advanced English
Nice to have
* Fintech or regulated-industry background
* Chaos engineering and load testing practice
* AWS certifications

Which skills does this role require?

Site Reliability EngineeringKubernetesTerraformGoPythonIncident ResponseObservabilityDatadogPrometheusGrafanaOpenTelemetryPCI DSSSOC 2Capacity ManagementSite Reliability EngineerEKSSLOError BudgetsAutomationTransaction-processingProduction EngineeringDevOps

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