- Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS, microservices)
- Up to £100,000 + performance related bonuses + benefits
- Hybrid-Remote in London (City) or Manchester Central | 3 days onsite
We’re partnered with a global fintech infrastructure company operating at the core of financial services: the data control layer behind banks, asset managers, and trading institutions worldwide.
Following a major acquisition the business is entering a significant scale phase, doubling headcount and investing heavily in its cloud and platform engineering capability
This is high-scale, mission-critical infrastructure software, processing trillions in financial assets daily and ensuring the accuracy, reconciliation, and compliance of global financial data.
Mission of the role:
- Deliver scalable, automated, and production-ready platforms built on AWS with Kubernetes, Infrastructure-as-Code, and GitOps at the core
- 6 months into the role, you will have led a successful migration or go-live, have delivered measurable improvements in scalability and efficiency, and been recognised as a trusted authority in microservices delivery
- You will work in a wider Infrastructure / SRE / Cloud team of 15
What you’ll be doing
- Design, build, and operate microservices platforms on AWS using Kubernetes (EKS/AKS)
- Automate provisioning, deployments, and pipelines with Terraform, Helm, and CI/CD tools
- Lead technical delivery for customer projects, from discovery through to production go-live
- Migrate and scale services into microservices-based platforms with resilience and observability in mind
- Implement GitOps workflows (e.g. ArgoCD, Flux) to ensure automation and consistency
- Produce high-quality documentation, runbooks, and reusable modules to accelerate delivery
- Act as a senior technical authority, raising engineering standards and mentoring by example
What we’re looking for
Essential skills and experience:
- Strong AWS cloud engineering background with Terraform / IaC
- Proven expertise in microservices design, deployment, and operations
- Hands-on Kubernetes orchestration (EKS/AKS)
- Linux administration and scripting (Bash / PowerShell; Python desirable)
- GitOps experience with Argo CD or Flux
- CI/CD pipeline development and automation
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills
- Track record of delivering service migrations and platform go-lives into production
Nice to haves:
- Helm chart authoring and advanced Argo CD usage
- Event-driven microservices (Kafka)
- PostgreSQL in cloud environments
- Advanced CI/CD pipeline design
- Experience with Internal Developer Platforms (e.g. Backstage)
- Multi-cloud exposure and/or Python development for tooling
Why join
- Work on large-scale, regulated financial data infrastructure used globally
- Major transformation phase following strategic acquisition and rapid scaling
- Opportunity to shape platform architecture during a key growth period
- Stable, PE-backed business with enterprise scale + modern cloud adoption