Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

At NOVACARD*, we’re redefining how people use credit.

We are the *first interest-free and no-annual-fee credit card in Mexico, designed to simplify personal finances and give users complete control - all from a mobile app. With NOVACARD, users can access up to $200,000 MXN in credit, only pay when they use it, and manage everything digitally in under 5 minutes. Our mission is to empower people to make smarter financial decisions by offering flexibility, transparency, and the freedom they need to reach their goals. Simple finances, big goals.About the Role:*

We’re looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to ensure the stability, performance, and reliability of our critical production systems. You’ll work at the intersection of development and operations — building automation tools, improving observability, and preventing incidents before they occur.*

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure the stability, performance, and fault tolerance of production systems.

• Develop and maintain infrastructure automation and observability tools.

• Monitor system health, respond to incidents, and perform root cause analysis (RCA).

• Collaborate with development teams to improve scalability and reliability of services.

• Define and manage SLIs, SLOs, and Error Budgets.

• Lead incident response: organize recovery, document RCA, and run blameless post-mortems.

• Configure and administer Grafana and Zabbix, design insightful dashboards, and fine-tune alerting.

• Integrate and monitor external vendor systems, collaborating with vendor technical support when needed.

RequirementsKey Requirements:

• Fluent Russian, English B1+ (comfortable with technical documentation).

• 3+ years of experience as an SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineer.

• Strong understanding of observability principles (metrics, logs, traces).

• Hands-on experience with Grafana and Zabbix (administration, configuration, alert optimization).

• Experience working with AWS and CI/CD tools.

• Practical knowledge of SLI/SLO/Error Budget frameworks.

• Experience leading and documenting incidents and post-mortems.

• Scripting skills for automation (Python, Bash, or Go).

• Solid understanding of distributed systems and networking fundamentals.

Nice to Have:

• Experience monitoring and supporting mobile applications.

• Familiarity with Terraform, Prometheus, Loki, ELK, or similar tools.

• Experience working with Kubernetes and containerized environments.

What We Offer:

• Fully remote work format.

• Official employment under the Russian Labor Code (for residents of Russia); contractor collaboration available for candidates from other countries.

• Opportunity to work in an international team on a new digital product for the Mexican market.

• A data-driven environment where your contributions have a real impact.

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