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Site Reliability Engineer

ftmo

Responsibilities

  • Google Cloud Platform

Kubernetes

  • Cooperation with Security and Business to establish guidelines on defining SLOs, error-budget policies, and using budgets to inform release and reliability decisions with the developer teams.
  • Revisiting our out-of-hours on-call processes and the incident lifecycle – PagerDuty routing, severity/escalation, comms, and blameless postmortems with tracked follow-ups.
  • Helping to set up progressive delivery (canary/blue-green), automated rollbacks, and health gates tied to SLOs.
  • Contribute to our secure-by-default pipelines and project templates, together with Cloud Platform, DevEx & Security teams, to ensure the best practices (reliability gates, security gates, standards) are followed.
  • Help our developers to set up processes for go-live gates for our new services: SLOs, alerting, observability,..
  • Ensure our teams have established processes for backup/restore validations, failovers, and DR drills across the critical services/infrastructure.
  • Help our developer and infrastructure teams set up autoscaling policies (KEDA), load/performance testing, and reliability-vs-cost trade-offs.

(GKE)

Elastic Cloud: OTEL + ELK for observability (and Grafana + Prometheus stack as legacy observability solution).

KEDA

  • for event-/metric-driven autoscaling.
  • PagerDuty for on-call routing and incident response.

GitLab

  • for source control & CI/CD;
  • Helm

Terraform/Terragrunt

for IaC

Kafka

  • (RedPanda);
  • Cloudflare
  • What will be your agenda?

Production-readiness reviews (PRR)

before production.

Observability & telemetry

  • Ensuring we collect metrics, logs, and traces from our critical services using the Elastic observability stack, setting instrumentation standards, and dashboard/alert quality.
  • What do we expect from you?

Hands-on experience running production services on Kubernetes

(ideally GKE), including firefighting real incidents.

Hands-on infrastructure as code

(IaC) with

(ideally Terragrunt)

Knowledge of cloud infrastructure from major cloud providers (ideally GCP).

Practical skills with

Linux containers,

and

Helm charts.

Experience defining

  • SLOs/SLIs and error budgets, and using them to inform release decisions.
  • Practical observability skills: metrics, logs, and traces; Prometheus/Grafana or Elastic (ELK), awareness of OpenTelemetry.

Building and maintaining

CI/CD pipelines and reusable templates.

Familiarity with progressive delivery

(canary, blue-green) and automated rollbacks

Awareness of event-/metric-driven autoscaling

(KEDA) and reliability-vs-cost trade-offs.

Why join the FTMO team?

  • We are a Czech fintech that, since 2015, has grown from an idea into a global project
  • 300+ amazing teammates. We’re a great team who learn from each other every day.🤜

How do we work

  • ? We focus on meaningful work and open communication, while only adopting processes that make our lives easier.
  • Prague, Národní třída.
  • Enjoy our modern offices at the Quadrio shopping center, offering beautiful views and excellent accessibility.

What if I don’t trade?

  • No worries. We’ll show you what our product is all about and introduce you to the basics of trading.
  • Free fruit, snacks, and coffee are always within reach in the office.

How do we promote strong relationships and well-being?

  • Company cottage, team building events, and running club.
  • Flexible hybrid model.
  • We prefer collaborating in person to keep the team spirit high, but we offer the flexibility you need to stay balanced.
  • *The benefits mentioned above apply to FTMO on-site employees in our Prague office.