Senior DevOps Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Ensure the operation of business-critical services hosted on AWS.

• Enhance the reliability, scalability, and security of AWS services by adopting fully managed cloud-native technologies.

• Oversee and improve the internal Platform that supports the development and deployment of essential business services.

• Ensure compliance with PCI DSS Level 1 and GDPR regulations.

• Contribute to architectural design and exploratory efforts.

• Identify problems and enhancements, proposing realistic solutions.

• Enhance the maintainability, reliability, performance, and security of systems.

• Resolve operational challenges, determine root causes, offer interim mitigations, and execute long-term solutions.

• Participate in an on-call schedule from Monday to Sunday, averaging once per month.

• Consistently apply relevant best practices.

• Engage in code reviews.

• Provide support and mentorship to junior and mid-level team members.

• Design, build, maintain, and enhance functions within the internal Platform.

• Perform reasonable related tasks as assigned by the line manager.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proficiency with AWS services such as VPC, EC2, ELB, Network Firewall, CloudWatch, RDS, KMS, IAM, S3, Lambda, and Route53.

• Familiarity with the OSI model.

• Capability to securely design and troubleshoot cloud networks utilizing the Linux command line and cloud technologies.

• Experience in Linux system administration.

• Knowledge of shell scripting.

• Expertise in configuration management.

• Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code tools, preferably Terraform.

• Experience with version control software.

• Understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).

• Security expertise, including CIS Benchmarks, AWS Security Hub, and OWASP.

• Experience with monitoring and observability tools.

• Ability to design, test, and implement solutions to business challenges within the AWS Cloud.

• Preferred: experience in the financial services sector, particularly with payment gateways.

• Preferred: experience facilitating annual PCI-DSS Level 1 audits.

• Preferred: capability to develop modern, secure, and testable software using high-level programming languages, ideally Python.

• Preferred: ability to write test code across all levels of the testing pyramid.

• Preferred: familiarity with CI/CD tools.

• Preferred: experience designing synchronous and event-driven architectures that are highly available, fault-tolerant, and performant.

• Preferred: experience managing production services using cloud-based container orchestration technologies.

• Successful completion of a background verification check.

• No specific educational credentials are required.

🏝️ Benefits

• Join a dynamic, market-leading Fintech company that is experiencing rapid growth.

• Enjoy flexible work arrangements tailored to the role and business needs.

• Access comprehensive wellness initiatives, including mental health resources supported by trained mental health first aiders.

• Benefit from extensive leave provisions, including annual leave, volunteering days, and birthday allowances.

• Take advantage of progressive family-oriented policies and benefits, including Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption leave.

• Receive a robust compensation package, including pension schemes, healthcare plans, and life assurance.

• Participate in regular corporate events that promote team cohesion and company culture.

• Experience a diverse company culture and a global working environment.

• Access continuous professional development and opportunities for career advancement.