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FinTech · Remote · UK / India overlap

Kubernetes platform reliability for a FinTech product team

Stabilized a Kubernetes platform with clearer SLOs, observability, and release guardrails for customer-facing workloads.

Regulated FinTech product company (anonymized) · Timeline: 6–8 weeks across platform hardening and observability

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Situation

Clusters were running production traffic with inconsistent manifests, noisy alerts, and limited visibility into latency and error budgets. Releases were manual and hard to roll back under pressure.

Approach

  • Standardized cluster baselines, namespaces, and workload packaging patterns
  • Introduced CI/CD with progressive delivery and safer rollback paths
  • Built an observability pack around golden signals, SLOs, and actionable alerts
  • Paired SRE practices with runbooks for on-call and incident response

Outcomes

  • Release path became repeatable with clearer ownership between app and platform teams
  • Alert noise reduced so on-call focused on customer-impacting signals
  • Platform readiness improved for audit and operational reviews

Outcomes are qualitative and anonymized. We do not publish fabricated metrics or named client endorsements here.

Technologies

KubernetesHelmGitHub ActionsPrometheusGrafana

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