SR Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - APAC (Night Shift...

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What this Journey Looks Like

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our team supporting a leading Canadian fintech organization. This role is ideal for an engineer who is passionate about reliability, automation, scalability, and operational excellence in a high-availability payments environment.

As a Senior SRE, you will play a critical role in ensuring the availability, performance, security, and resilience of mission-critical platforms that process financial transactions. You will collaborate closely with Software Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, and Product teams to improve system reliability and drive operational maturity.

What You'll Lead and Build

• Design, implement, and maintain highly available, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure.

• Monitor production systems and proactively identify reliability, performance, and capacity issues.

• Lead incident response activities, root cause analysis (RCA), and post-incident reviews.

• Develop automation solutions to reduce operational overhead and improve system reliability.

• Build and enhance observability platforms, including monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting systems.

• Establish and maintain Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and error budgets.

• Partner with development teams to improve application resilience, deployment strategies, and operational readiness.

• Support CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation initiatives.

• Participate in on-call rotations and production support activities.

• Drive infrastructure-as-code and platform engineering best practices.

• Ensure compliance with security, governance, and fintech industry standards.

• Contribute to disaster recovery, business continuity, and high-availability strategies.

What You Bring to the Table

• Must be located in the APAC region and available to work during Canadian overnight hours.

• Fluent English.

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, or related roles.

• Strong experience supporting mission-critical production environments.

• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

• Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes and containerized environments.

• Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).

• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.

• Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or Go.

• Strong understanding of Linux systems administration.

• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, Splunk, ELK, or OpenTelemetry.

• Knowledge of networking fundamentals including DNS, load balancing, TLS/SSL, VPNs, and firewalls.

• Experience managing production incidents and conducting root cause analysis.

• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across distributed teams.

Benefits that Move you Forward.

We’re here to amplify your brilliance, not contain it.

• Work from anywhere with true flexibility and freedom.

• Earn in USD with compensation that matches your expertise.

• Recharge confidently with dedicated paid time off.

• Advance your career with fully covered international certifications.

• Access coworking spaces worldwide whenever you want a professional setup.

• Strengthen your English and expand your global reach.

• Connect and have fun with activities that unite our international team.

• Feel appreciated with personalized gifts and a thoughtful welcome kit.

• Grow our community and earn through our referral program.

At Pearster, your journey matters, and we’re here to help you go further than you imagined.