Senior DevOps Engineer

As a DevOps Engineer, you will own the reliability, scalability, and security of the systems that power financial transactions for customers across multiple countries. You'll work at the intersection of engineering and operations, enabling our product and backend teams to ship fast without breaking things. This role sits within the Engineering team and reports directly to the Engineering Lead. You'll be a foundational hire on our infrastructure function, with the opportunity to define tooling, standards, and culture from the ground up.
Responsibilities:
Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, reliable, and automated deployments across environments.
Manage and evolve our cloud infrastructure on AWS (and/or GCP), including networking, compute, storage, and security configurations.
Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or Pulumi, ensuring reproducible and version-controlled environments.
Own observability: set up and manage monitoring, alerting, and logging using tools such as Datadog, Grafana, or Prometheus.
Collaborate closely with backend, mobile, and security engineers to ensure infrastructure supports product velocity and compliance requirements.
Lead incident response and post-mortems and drive improvements to system reliability and uptime.
Enforce security best practices, including secrets management, IAM policies, vulnerability scanning, and compliance controls (PCI-DSS awareness a plus).
Manage containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS or GKE).
Support developer tooling, internal environments, and platform engineering initiatives.
Requirements:
4-6 years of hands-on DevOps or SRE experience in a cloud-native environment.
Strong proficiency with AWS (EC2 RDS, S3 IAM, VPC, Lambda); GCP experience is a plus.
Solid experience with Kubernetes managing clusters, deployments, autoscaling, and networking.
Expertise in CI/CD tooling: GitHub Actions, CircleCI, ArgoCD, or equivalent.
Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform (Pulumi or CDK is also acceptable).
Comfortable working in a Linux/Unix environment with strong scripting skills.
Experience with observability stacks: Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, or similar.
Strong security mindset you understand secrets management, IAM, and network hardening.
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous startup environment with a high ownership bias.
Nice to Have:
Experience in fintech, payments, or regulated industries (PCI-DSS, SOC 2).
Familiarity with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd).
Exposure to multi-region or multi-cloud deployments.
Experience with database operations (RDS, PostgreSQL, and Redis), including backups and failover.
Prior experience in a high-growth Series A/B startup.

Experience
4-8 yrs