DevOps Engineer (AWS)

TL;DR

DevOps Engineer (AWS): Building and operating secure, scalable cloud infrastructure for an on-chain digital capital markets platform with an accent on AWS, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and observability. Focus on designing resilient production systems, improving deployment reliability, and solving complex availability, performance, security, and cost-efficiency challenges.

Location: Hybrid role based in Belfast, United Kingdom.

Company

hirify.global is a fintech scale-up building on-chain infrastructure for the tokenization of alternative assets and digital capital markets.

What you will do

• Design and maintain secure, scalable AWS infrastructure across production and staging environments.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines for fast, reliable deployments.
• Monitor and optimize system availability, performance, and infrastructure costs.
• Implement observability through logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
• Enhance infrastructure as code with AWS CDK and collaborate with engineers on development workflows and deployment strategies.
• Promote DevOps best practices and operational resilience across the company.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure-focused engineering.
• Strong experience with AWS services, including EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, IAM, and Cognito.
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code, particularly AWS CDK.
• Hands-on experience with Docker and container orchestration such as ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions or similar tools.
• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools, plus a security-first approach to infrastructure management.

Nice to have

• Experience in regulated or high-trust environments.
• Knowledge of zero-downtime deployment and rollback strategies.
• Operational experience with Next.js, Node.js, or React applications.
• Understanding of secrets management and zero-trust networking.

Culture & Benefits

• High-performance, collaborative scale-up environment with significant ownership and autonomy.
• Competitive salary with regular reviews and generous stock options.
• Premium private healthcare, 26 days of annual leave, birthday leave, and regional bank holidays.
• Enhanced parental leave and salary sacrifice schemes, including UK-specific options.
• MacBook, monitors, additional equipment, and an annual learning and development budget.
• Modern offices in London, Belfast, Dundalk, and Dubai.