Senior DevOps Engineer (Payments & Settlements)

TL;DR

Senior DevOps Engineer (Payments & Settlements): Extending and hardening a payments and settlements platform deployed as Java/Spring microservices with an accent on Dev/Test/Acceptance/Production ownership, automation, and reliability. Focus on building resilient CI/CD and operations (failover, backup/restore, monitoring), improving observability, and supporting HA/DR testing while managing OS/middleware/database lifecycle and security controls.

Location: Amsterdam, North Holland

Salary: Negotiable EUR / Year

Company

hirify.global supports an international bank scaling engineering for payments and settlements platforms.

What you will do

• Own Dev, Test, Acceptance, and Production for payment engine APIs and microservices.
• Automate relentlessly across regression testing (functional, performance, security), deployments, and operations.
• Run reliability activities including failover, backup/restore, monitoring, and HA/DR testing support.
• Manage lifecycle of OS, middleware, and databases, including patching and certificate/access handling.
• Improve observability using Grafana, Prometheus, and ELK; document IT risk and security controls.
• Work in Agile squads against a TPO-prioritised backlog and deliver via CI/CD pipelines.

Requirements

• 5+ years of DevOps experience.
• Experience with automation/config tools such as Ansible (or similar: Chef, Salt, Terraform).
• Hands-on with Azure DevOps or Google Cloud.
• Monitoring experience with Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK.
• Strong Red Hat/RHEL background (cert preferred) plus networking and clustered environments.
• CI/CD and tooling experience (Azure DevOps, Git, Sonar, Checkmarx) and automation with Python/Shell/Ansible.

Nice to have

• Experience with virtualization/container technologies (VMware, OpenStack, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift).
• Experience with REST APIs, SRE concepts, and RDBMS fundamentals.
• Strong communication skills and a drive to continuously improve.

Culture & Benefits

• Small autonomous squads with high ownership and a strong DevOps culture.
• Agile delivery with a TPO-prioritised backlog.
• Focus on automation, reliability, and continuous improvement across the full delivery lifecycle.
• Work includes security and risk documentation alongside operational responsibilities.

Hiring process

• Interviews to assess DevOps/SRE experience, automation and CI/CD practices, and operational reliability skills.
• Discussion of fit for payments/settlements platform ownership and security/observability responsibilities.