Senior DevOps Engineer

Project descriptionFor our fast-growing startup client, which is a global leader in financial infrastructure solutions, together with the client, we build complex solution which is unlocking private credit and providing unparalleled access through its modern marketplace, empowering investors, borrowers, and managers with innovative technology to increase the speed and frequency of transactions at a fraction of the cost. The solution's core infrastructure delivers public market efficiencies to the analog private credit market by powering the sourcing, structuring, syndication, surveillance and servicing of private credit transactions from beginning to end. The platform is becoming the market standard for asset-based and corporate lending, powering over $2 billion in transaction volume in a multi-trillion-dollar private credit industry.We are seeking a talented Senior DevOps Engineer to be a driving force behind our mission to modernize the private credit market. In this role, you won't just manage infrastructure; you'll design, secure, and scale the core systems that power our platform. You will be a catalyst for reliability and efficiency, responsible for building cloud-native systems, automating processes, and ensuring best-in-class security practices across the entire stack.ResponsibilitiesInfrastructure as Code: Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform.Cloud Operations: Manage, monitor, and optimize AWS services including EKS, RDS Aurora PostgreSQL, VPC, and IAM.Containerization & Orchestration: Build and operate Kubernetes clusters and Dockerized applications in production.CI/CD & GitOps: Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitOps workflows) and data orchestration (Airflow DAGs).Database Reliability: Ensure performance, scalability, and reliability of Aurora PostgreSQL with strong security and backup practices.Monitoring & Incident Response: Design and operate observability systems (metrics, logs, traces, alerting, availability, etc) and lead structured incident response and postmortems.Security & Compliance: Apply DevSecOps principles to safeguard infrastructure, manage secrets, and adhere to compliance frameworks (SOC2).Collaboration: Partner closely with engineering teams to embed secure and scalable infrastructure practices into development workflows.Automation & Innovation: Continuously drive automation and improvements in deployments, testing, and system reliability.SkillsMust have5-10 years of DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering experience in a cloud-native environmentProven expertise with AWS (EKS, RDS, EC2, S3, VPC, IAM)Strong experience with Terraform and GitOps workflowsHands-on expertise with Kubernetes and DockerSolid knowledge of PostgreSQL operations and performance tuningStrong security-first mindset; experience hardening systems and managing secretsFamiliarity with compliance frameworks such as SOC2Proficiency with scripting languages (Python, Bash)Experience designing highly available systems across multiple AZs and regionsTrack record of reducing toil via scripting, automation, and developer toolingExcellent problem-solving and communication skillsSelf-motivated team player able to work independently in a fast-paced environmentNice to haveExperience in FinTech domainLanguagesEnglish: B2 Upper Intermediate