Remote Senior AWS DevOps Engineer

Company: Novatus
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Novatus is a Series B scale-up RegTech SaaS provider and boutique advisory practice, enabling financial services firms to solve complex challenges and redefine what’s possible through expert-led technology and consulting. Across both our technology and consulting services, Novatus delivers practical solutions to some of the most complex regulatory, data and operational challenges in financial services. Our SaaS platform, En ACT ( short for Ensuring Accurate, Complete and Timely reporting ), is a market-leading solution for regulatory transaction reporting and reconciliation, providing real-time, independent oversight of transaction reporting across all global regulatory regimes. En ACT is the only real-time assurance solution that tests 100% of transactions and 100% of fields, replacing sample-based reviews and static PDF reports delivered months after the event with live, actionable insights. This helps firms remediate quickly, reduce risk, and meet regulatory obligations with confidence. Already trusted by more than 45 firms worldwide, the platform is scalable, proven, and designed for both business and technical users.

Alongside our SaaS offering, our unique model delivers consulting services to solve complex challenges, combining deep expertise, ownership and delivery to create lasting change. Our expertise spans Strategy & Operations, Data & AI, Risk & Resilience, Compliance, Transaction Reporting, and ESG. We embed ourselves within client teams to deliver both insight and execution, taking ownership of outcomes and driving measurable impact.

Backed by North American private equity investment, and partnerships with the London Stock Exchange Group and Snowflake’s global data platform, we are shaping the future of financial services through innovation in both consulting and technology. Now a team of 120 globally, our growth plans do not stop here: we are looking for top-tier talent to join us on our journey and enable our next phase of success.

Senior DevOps Engineer As a Senior DevOps Engineer , you will scope and deliver complex infrastructure projects end-to-end, building and maintaining scalable, secure, and performant systems. This role requires a strong technical background and a proven track record of building and scaling systems in complex environments. You’ll be joining as we have begun actively modernizing our infrastructure from traditional deployments to automation and cloud-native systems with AWS, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Databricks, Snowflake and Grafana.

Design and implement AWS cloud infrastructure, writing clean and maintainable Infrastructure as Code for repeatable, auditable deployments across environments. Drive reliability, scalability, security, observability and cost efficiency of AWS infrastructure. Provide mentorship to other DevOps engineers, sharing expertise and raising engineering quality across the team. Partner with Data Engineering to support platform infrastructure (AWS, Databricks, Snowflake).

Strong hands-on AWS infrastructure experience, including IAM, VPCs, compute, containers, load balancing, storage, security, resilience, and cost optimization. Hands-on experience deploying and operating applications on Kubernetes in production, including Helm/manifests, ingress, configuration/secrets, observability, and troubleshooting live workloads. Proficient with Infrastructure as Code, especially Terraform, with experience building maintainable, reusable modules and environment patterns. Solid production networking knowledge: TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, BGP, routing, subnets, NAT, firewalls/security groups, VPN/private connectivity, load balancers, and practical troubleshooting. Experience designing observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions for distributed systems. Strong software engineering ability beyond basic scripting. Ideally someone who has contributed to larger software projects or built maintainable platform/backend tooling in a language such as Python, Go, Java, TypeScript, or similar. Comfortable using modern AI-assisted engineering workflows, including agentic coding tools and LLM-based automation. Familiarity with concepts such as MCP servers, tool-calling, RAG/vector search, embeddings, and AI-assisted platform operations. Working knowledge of databases and data platforms, including SQL databases such as PostgreSQL/MySQL and exposure to NoSQL or distributed data stores. Track record of independently scoping and delivering complex infrastructure projects end-to-end. AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Security, or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer). FinTech, RegTech, or financial services background.

If you are driven to add value and help grow our business, you will enjoy a rewarding experience that recognises your contributions.

Private Medical Insurance (via AXA): includes mental health, dental, vision, and private GP access Life Insurance – 4× salary (via Unum) Unum’s Help@Hand: includes GP access, medical second opinions, physiotherapy, lifestyle coaching, savings and discounts, mental health support, bereavement counselling, and cancer support services for you, your partner, and your child(ren) Salary sacrifice childcare and nursery scheme (via YellowNest) Employee Assistance Programme Enhanced parental leave (maternity & paternity) Accelerated career progression based on readiness and performance, not tenure or time spent in role Holiday entitlement increases with tenure Flexible hours with core collaboration time Paid volunteering leave Gym & fitness discounts Bi-annual socials Office snacks and drinks All employment decisions are made based on business needs, role requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, age, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, socioeconomic background, disability, or any other characteristic protected under the Equality Act 2010.

We maintain a workplace culture that is inclusive, respectful, and supportive. This commitment is embedded in all aspects of our employment practices, including recruitment, compensation, professional development, promotion, and workplace conduct….

Posted: June 2nd, 2026