Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer to lead the scaling and evolution of a rapidly growing financial technology platform. In this pivotal role, you will design and operate robust cloud infrastructure, enhance system reliability for sensitive financial workloads, and drive the maturation of deployment tooling and observability. The ideal candidate is a proactive infrastructure expert with a strong foundation in cloud architecture, containerization, and data security, ready to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment and shape the future of modern wealth management technology.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve cloud infrastructure running on AWS.

• Design, operate, and scale Kubernetes-based production environments.

• Improve system reliability, availability, and performance as transaction volume and financial data workloads rapidly grow.

• Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and deployment tooling.

• Partner closely with backend and data engineers on PostgreSQL performance, database reliability, backups, and scaling.

• Strengthen infrastructure security and access controls to safeguard highly sensitive financial data.

• Identify architectural bottlenecks and proactively improve system scalability and resilience.

• Help define infrastructure and operational standards as the engineering organization expands.

• Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, and continuous reliability improvements.

Qualifications and Job Requirements

• 6+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.

• Deep, practical experience managing and operating AWS environments.

• Strong production-level experience designing and scaling Kubernetes clusters.

• Proven track record of scaling high-availability production systems.

• Strong understanding of PostgreSQL administration, performance tuning, and scaling; specialized experience scaling PostgreSQL-intensive applications is a major plus.

• Extensive infrastructure-as-code experience utilizing Terraform or similar technologies.

• Robust experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines and modern observability tooling.

• Deep understanding of cloud, network, and application security, with a proven ability to manage sensitive or regulated data.

• Ability to operate independently and take ownership in a fast-moving, startup environment.

• Background in fintech, wealth management, banking, lending, payments, or other transaction-oriented platforms is highly desirable.

• Prior experience designing infrastructure specifically for financial-data platforms or working within SOC 2 compliant environments is preferred.

• Proficiency or hands-on experience with Python is a plus.