AWS Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Senior Infrastructure Engineer (AWS): Designing, securing, and optimizing enterprise cloud infrastructure for a financial platform with an accent on networking, automation, security, and performance tuning. Focus on building automation, strengthening cloud security, and enabling data movement and platform performance.

Location: Hybrid – at least two days per week (40% of your time) in one of our offices (Leeds, Halifax, or Manchester, UK)

Salary: £70,929 – £80,780

Company

hirify.global is a financial institution focused on modernizing its cloud platform and building the future of finance.

What you will do

• Configure and manage AWS VPCs, EC2, Load Balancers, Transit Gateway, and PrivateLink.
• Build automation with AWS CLI, Boto3, Terraform, and CloudFormation.
• Deploy containerised workloads using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Implement IAM least-privilege access and use AWS security services like Security Hub, GuardDuty, Macie, WAF, and Network Firewall.
• Lead encryption and secrets management with KMS and Secrets Manager.
• Support secure data transfers and drive monitoring with CloudWatch, Dynatrace, and Splunk.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure, automation, and observability tooling.
• Strong understanding of DNS, SSL/TLS, TCP/IP, and core networking principles.
• Familiarity with cloud cost optimisation and multi-cloud environments.
• Practical experience leading production-grade cloud workloads.
• Work on a hybrid basis from Leeds, Halifax, or Manchester, UK.

Culture & Benefits

• Generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
• Annual performance-related bonus and share schemes.
• Flexible benefits package tailored to your lifestyle.
• 30 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays.
• Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.
• Commitment to diversity and inclusion.