Lead DevOps Engineer (Fintech)

Location: Mexico; remote

Company

hirify.global is a fintech focused on expanding financial access across Latin America through simple, transparent financial solutions.

What you will do

• Own core platform systems end-to-end across CI/CD and deployments, infrastructure as code, multi-account governance, observability, and incident tooling.
• Drive platform roadmap pillars covering security hardening, deployment excellence, reliability, incident management, AI platform infrastructure, and seasonality hardening.
• Lead incident response and post-mortems, strengthen runbooks and escalation paths, and improve availability, DORA metrics, MTTR, and cloud cost.
• Design scalable and resilient AWS infrastructure while accounting for failure modes, cost, Mexican regulation, and financial-sector requirements.
• Provide technical leadership through design reviews, RFCs, hiring interviews, tech talks, mentoring, and cross-functional communication.
• Partner with requesting squads to scope platform work, remove dependencies and impediments, and automate toil and KTLO work.

Requirements

• 5+ years in DevOps, Platform, Infrastructure, or SRE engineering with production ownership.
• Experience owning entire systems or large cross-team initiatives, leading incident response, writing effective post-mortems, mentoring engineers, and leading design discussions.
• Strong expertise in Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation.
• Deep knowledge of CI/CD and modern delivery practices, including trunk-based development, feature flags, and canary or blue-green deployments.
• Hands-on AWS experience with ECS, Fargate, EC2, Lambda, RDS/Postgres, ElastiCache, SQS, Kinesis, IAM, and VPC networking.
• Experience with AWS multi-account governance, AWS Organizations or Control Tower, and cross-account resource migrations.
• Proficiency with metrics, logs, traces, and alerting; Datadog is preferred. Experience with scripting or automation in Python, Go, Bash, or Node.js/TypeScript.
• Solid understanding of cloud security, secret management, compliance requirements, and regulated financial environments.
• Strong communication in Spanish, with working English for vendor and partner interactions. Ability to manage ambiguity, surface risks, lead through influence, and give and receive direct feedback.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with GCP services such as BigQuery and Pub/Sub, or MongoDB Atlas and other managed data stores.
• Fintech, payments, or regulated-environment experience, including CNBV, SOC 2, or PCI.
• Experience with security and infrastructure hardening, incident-management programs, FinOps, or cloud-cost optimization.
• Experience operating infrastructure for AI/ML workloads and using DORA metrics to drive improvement.
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional or Solutions Architect – Professional certification, or equivalent hands-on experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote full-time role supporting infrastructure for financial inclusion across Latin America.
• Senior individual-contributor path with E3 Lead Engineer scope and technical ownership; a future Tech Lead Manager track is optional.
• High-growth fintech environment at the intersection of infrastructure, delivery, and business impact.
• Expected outcomes include reliable, observable, documented systems; fewer repeat incidents; measurable toil reduction; and growth among mentored engineers.