Job Description

6 month FTC - potential to lead to a permanent role.

We're looking for a skilled and driven DevOps Engineer to help take our Credit strategy infrastructure to the next level. You'll play a key role in optimizing and scaling our AWS environment, streamlining deployments, and ensuring our systems are secure, reliable, and cost-effective.


You'll work on projects like decomposing services into Fargate, Lambda, and RDS, improving CI/CD pipelines, setting up VPN connections, enhancing monitoring and observability and contributing to our codebase. You'll also support our security certification efforts and help improve developer experience.

Responsibilities

Optimize the deployment of existing credit software in AWS by decomposing it into services such as Fargate, Lambda, RDS (high availability), MQ, Airflow, CloudTrail, and CloudWatch. Architect new software deployments in AWS, following best practices around security, logging, and high availability. Enhance integration and regression testing as well as improve deployment pipelines. Upgrade authentication across internal tools to support single sign-on (SSO). Set up site-to-site VPN connections between on-premise infrastructure, AWS, and external counterparties. Support the security certification process by improving policies, practices, and documentation. Streamline developer environment setup to improve onboarding and productivity. Right-size the existing AWS architecture for cost optimization, adding monitoring and instrumentation for better observability. Set up cost alerts and actively monitor AWS usage and spending.

Requirements

Solid knowledge of AWS (networking, security, databases, Fargate/ECS, ALB, VPN, Airflow). Hands-on experience with Docker and containerization. Proficiency in the Linux environment and WSL on Windows. Practical experience with AWS CDK for Infrastructure as Code. Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines using GitLab and GitLab runners. Strong understanding of scalable, highly available cloud architectures. Programming experience in Python and Go, with the ability to contribute directly to the codebase. Strong focus on security best practices, including authentication and authorization. Awareness of cloud cost management and designing cost-effective solutions. Ability to hit the ground running and make meaningful, hands-on contributions. Experience with database administration. Exposure to financial industry practices (e.g., FIX protocol) is a plus, but not required.

Benefits

Competitive bonus scheme. Bupa health & dental, Cycle to Work scheme, enhanced pension, and generous annual leave. Enhanced parental leave, special leave allowances, and charity giving options. Regular team events, legendary summer & Christmas parties, knowledge sharing sessions, and quarterly town halls. * Team lunches, dinners, Friday drinks, team sport activities