About the Role
Join us as a Senior DevOps Architect for a fintech product company building a
cloud-native core banking and payments SaaS platform
for the European market. In this high-impact role, you will own the strategic design and implementation of our DevOps ecosystem
, ensuring our platform is scalable, reliable, secure, and built for speed. With deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, automation, and CI/CD
, you ll lead by example, mentor engineers, and shape our engineering culture. You ll architect enterprise-grade DevOps solutions across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, enabling seamless delivery of a platform that handles sensitive financial transactions under strict regulatory standards. This is a hands-on
leadership and architecture
role where you will influence technology choices, drive operational excellence, and ensure DevOps practices are embedded across the product lifecycle.
What You ll Do (Responsibilities)
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Architect Enterprise DevOps Solutions:
Design and implement large-scale DevOps architectures across hybrid and multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) with a focus on scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency. -
Drive CI/CD Excellence:
Build, optimize, and standardize CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD, etc.) to enable secure, high-availability releases with zero-downtime deployments. -
Automate Infrastructure:
Lead infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, and Helm
, ensuring infrastructure-as-code practices are consistently applied. -
Champion DevOps Governance:
Define and enforce DevOps governance, standards, and best practices across development and operations teams. Establish guardrails for compliance (PCI DSS, GDPR, PSD2) and operational security. -
Embed Security & Resilience:
Collaborate with architects, developers, and security teams to integrate DevSecOps practices, ensuring systems are hardened, compliant, and resilient to failures. -
Lead Containerization & Orchestration:
Drive adoption of Docker and Kubernetes for containerization, orchestration, and workload scaling. Define strategies for microservices deployments and service discovery. -
Implement Observability & Reliability:
Build and enhance monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks (Prometheus, ELK, Grafana, CloudWatch). Apply SRE principles
to track SLIs/SLOs/SLAs and improve reliability. -
Evaluate Emerging Tech:
Continuously assess new DevOps tools and technologies (service mesh, GitOps, AI-driven automation) and integrate them where they add value. -
Mentor & Influence:
Guide and coach DevOps engineers, fostering a culture of automation, learning, and operational excellence. Act as a thought leader for DevOps across the organization.
Technologies You ll Work With
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Cloud & Infra:
AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, Ansible, Helm, CloudFormation. -
CI/CD & DevOps:
GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Docker, Kubernetes. -
Monitoring & Observability:
Prometheus, ELK stack, Grafana, CloudWatch. -
Security & Governance:
DevSecOps practices, compliance (GDPR, PCI DSS, PSD2). -
Collaboration Tools:
Jira, Confluence, Git-based workflows (GitLab/GitHub).
Total Experience Expected: 14-18 years
Qualifications
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Extensive DevOps & IT Experience:
15+ years in IT, including 8+ years in DevOps and 3+ years in an architect-level role. Proven success in designing DevOps solutions for comp