Senior DevOps Engineer

Role Summary 

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will design, build and operate a modern, fully automated, cloud-native platform on AWS for highly regulated financial services environments. You will work within cross-functional product teams and platform teams to deliver reusable infrastructure, scalable deployment patterns and reliable CI/CD pipelines. The role focuses on Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, hybrid cloud operations, observability and high-throughput messaging systems, with a strong emphasis on automation, resilience and engineering excellence. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Design and manage automated cloud infrastructure on AWS using Terraform 
• Build and maintain modular, reusable Infrastructure as Code and delivery pipelines 
• Implement and operate container platforms using Kubernetes (EKS) and ECS/Fargate 
• Support hybrid infrastructure across AWS and on-premise environments 
• Define and implement SLOs, SLIs, monitoring and alerting strategies 
• Implement end-to-end observability using Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana and OpenTelemetry 
• Develop shared DevOps tooling and repeatable deployment patterns 
• Migrate and modernize legacy infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines 
• Operate and optimize streaming and messaging platforms such as Kafka/AWS MSK 
• Work closely with development teams to enable secure, high-frequency and automated releases 
• Participate in release, change management and on-call rotations 
• Ensure platform reliability, security, compliance and audit readiness for financial services workloads 

Must-have Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS and cloud-native architecture 
• Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform 
• Solid experience with Kubernetes (EKS) and containerized environments 
• Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines 
• Strong experience in building scalable, fault-tolerant systems in hybrid environments 
• Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry or similar) 
• Strong knowledge of Kafka/AWS MSK or other messaging systems 
• Experience with PostgreSQL/RDBMS (preferably Aurora PostgreSQL) 
• Understanding of DevOps, platform engineering and SRE practices 
• Experience working in regulated environments (financial services is a strong plus) 
• Strong ownership mindset and ability to work in fast-paced delivery environments 

Nice to have

• Experience working with Thought Machine Vault 
• Experience with service mesh technologies such as Istio or AWS App Mesh 
• Experience with HashiCorp Vault, Packer, Ansible or Pulumi 
• Experience with AWS Athena and data platform integration 
• Exposure to DevSecOps tooling (Snyk, SonarQube, OPA, Artifactory/Nexus) 
• Platform engineering approach (self-service infrastructure, golden paths) 
• Experience applying AI tools to improve: 
  • IaC generation and refactoring 
  • CI/CD pipeline optimization 
  • automated operations and incident response 
  • observability and performance analysis 

What we offer you

You will be working with some of the brightest people in business and technology on challenging and rewarding projects in a team of like-minded individuals. GFT prides itself on its international environment that promotes professional and cultural exchange and encourages further individual development with the benefits below:

• Competitive salary
• 13th-month salary guarantee
• Performance bonus
• Professional English course for employees
• Premium health insurance
• Extensive annual leave

(Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are unable to respond to every candidate individually. If you have not received a response from GFT regarding your application within 10 workdays, please consider that we have decided to proceed with other candidates. We truly appreciate your interest in GFT and thank you for your understanding.)