Senior Techops Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Senior Techops Engineer (Fintech): Own and develop cloud infrastructure and observability standards for a financial technology platform with an accent on AWS infrastructure as code, advanced monitoring, and global networking. Focus on designing scalable Kubernetes clusters, CI/CD automation, and security in a regulated financial environment.

Location: Hybrid based in or around Cardiff with minimum 3 days per week in office

Company

hirify.global provides AI-powered digital private markets infrastructure for financial firms, partnering with leading organizations like Barclays and Coutts.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Terragrunt with modular architecture and state management standards.
• Architect and maintain observability stack including Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry for metrics and distributed tracing.
• Implement global traffic management using AWS Global Accelerator for low-latency performance.
• Manage and scale Kubernetes (EKS) clusters ensuring high availability and resource optimization.
• Optimize CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Octopus Deploy towards continuous delivery.
• Own application health monitoring with Sentry across Golang, PHP, and Node.js applications and manage secrets lifecycle with HashiCorp Vault.

Requirements

• Must be based in or near Cardiff with hybrid work model requiring office presence minimum 3 days per week
• Deep experience with AWS core services (EC2, VPC, EKS, RDS, IAM) and Terraform/Terragrunt.
• Strong hands-on skills with Prometheus, Grafana, and Kubernetes production management.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Octopus Deploy.
• Ability to read and debug Golang, PHP, or Node.js code.
• Understanding of security standards and secrets management in FinTech environments.

Nice to have

• Experience with AWS Global Accelerator for multi-region resilience and latency optimization.
• Experience implementing OpenTelemetry instrumentation and collectors.
• Knowledge of financial services regulatory and security standards (SOC2, ISO27001).

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salary based on experience.
• Hybrid working policy with mandatory office days.
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, increasing with service length.
• Employee share incentive scheme and extra birthday day off.
• Private medical insurance and death-in-service benefit.
• Defined contribution pension scheme and professional growth opportunities.