Enigmatic Smile

fintech

SeniorDevOpsEngineer(AWSPlatform)

$68k+ Remote FULL TIME Remote Friendly
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The Brief

“Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS Platform) at Enigmatic Smile. Skills: AWS, Terraform, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code. Design AWS infrastructure. Build AWS infrastructure”

What You'll Achieve.

scale and mature our AWS infrastructure; improving resilience; improving scalability; improving cost efficiency; improving developer experience; driving standardisation; build systems that are robust; build systems that are observable; aligned with AWS best practices; aligned with the Well-Architected Framework; reusable modules; standardisation; consistent, reliable deployments; cost visibility

Industry & Context.

fintech
Problems you'll solve

Troubleshoot production issues; root cause analysis

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer in AWS environments, Deep hands-on expertise with AWS services, AWS networking, Terraform, infrastructure-as-code approaches, AWS Well-Architected Framework, multi-region architectures, CI/CD experience, identity and access management, SSO, Linux, containerisation, Docker, ECS, observability and monitoring systems

Nice to Have

security tooling integrations, regulated environments, Terraform automation tooling, Internal Developer Platforms, self-service infrastructure models, Cloudflare WAF, Kubernetes, EKS, Kafka, MongoDB, Rust

What You'll Do.

Design AWS infrastructure

Build AWS infrastructure

Manage AWS infrastructure

Optimise AWS services

Develop CI/CD pipelines

Improve CI/CD pipelines

Build observability frameworks

Enhance observability frameworks

Implement identity controls

Manage identity controls

Collaborate on platform hardening

Integrate security tooling

Contribute to platform engineering

Drive cost optimisation

Troubleshoot production issues

Perform root cause analysis

Implement long-term fixes

Improve infrastructure automation

Improve infrastructure documentation

Improve infrastructure best practices

Design containerisation

Deploy containerisation

Harden containerisation

Secure containerisation

Ensure infrastructure compliance

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Collaborate closely with Engineering; Collaborate closely with WebApps; Collaborate closely with QA; Collaborate closely with Security teams; Collaborate with Security on platform hardening; Working closely with Engineering team; Working with Compliance teams

Full Job Description

### **About the Role** We’re a security-first fintech scale-up building a globally distributed platform, and we’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to help scale and mature our AWS infrastructure. Reporting to the Head of DevOps, you’ll take ownership of a AWS platforms supporting multiple environments and services. You’ll focus on improving resilience, scalability, cost efficiency, and developer experience, while driving standardisation through infrastructure as code and platform best practices. This is a hands-on role where you’ll collaborate closely with Engineering, WebApps, QA, and Security teams to build systems that are robust, observable, and aligned with AWS best practices and the Well-Architected Framework. ### What You’ll Be Doing * Design, build, and manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform, with a focus on reusable modules and standardisation * Operate and optimise AWS services including ECS, EC2, Lambda, SQS/DLQ, CloudWatch, IAM * Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, CodeDeploy) for consistent, reliable deployments * Build and enhance observability frameworks (logging, monitoring, alerting) across distributed systems * Implement and manage identity and access controls, including SSO and access brokering * Collaborate with Security on platform hardening and integration with security tooling (e.g. SIEM, DLP) * Contribute to platform engineering initiatives * Drive cost optimisation efforts across AWS (rightsizing, reserved capacity, scaling strategies, and cost visibility) * Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement long-term fixes * Continuously improve infrastructure through automation, documentation, and best practices * Working closely with Engineering team to design, deploy, harden and consistently keep secure containerisation and deployment * Working with Compliance teams on PCI DSS, ISO27001 and SOC2 standards, making sure infrastructure is compliant **Requirements** Required: * Strong experien

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