DevOps Engineer (Senior/Staff)

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential fintech organization that is building next-generation enterprise software in a massive, established market. This is a high-impact, early-stage role with significant ownership and the chance to shape foundational infrastructure from the ground up.

Our client operates with urgency, autonomy, and exceptionally high standards. They've secured substantial backing from top-tier investors and are scaling rapidly with a small, elite team drawn from leading tech and professional services firms.

This is a remote role available across EU and LATAM with overlap for US Eastern Time.

Responsibilities

• Lead the initial setup of DevOps and platform engineering practices
• Design and deliver internal platforms for personal or feature environments to boost developer velocity
• Build and maintain AWS-based infrastructure for performance, scale, and security
• Build CI/CD pipelines and automate release processes end to end
• Implement observability tooling (logging, monitoring, alerting) to detect and resolve issues early
• Collaborate with developers to remove bottlenecks and improve reliability
• Ensure high availability through monitoring, incident response, and recovery strategies
• Drive Infrastructure as Code best practices and infrastructure automation
• Document systems and processes for clarity and reproducibility

What We're Looking For

• 10+ years of overall experience OR 5+ years of deep AWS-focused engineering experience
• Deep expertise across AWS (EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, IAM, networking, etc.)
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Strong command of CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar)
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and modern deployment workflows
• Hands-on experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)
• Comfortable building systems from scratch with high autonomy
• Time zone flexibility to support partial 24-hour coverage
• Pragmatic, hard-working, curious, and high-velocity by default
• Strong work ethic and high agency mindset

How We Work With You

Candidates apply directly through Get A Job.ai. Our talent team will conduct an initial screening to understand your background and ensure alignment with the role requirements. Once cleared, we will submit your profile to our client for their review. Please do not attempt to contact the client directly—all communication and coordination will flow through our recruiting team to ensure a smooth and professional process.

Pay

Compensation details for this role include base salary of $100K–$165K plus equity. Our client offers a B2B contract structure, remote-first work, 15 PTO days plus 12 public holidays, learning and development budget, co-working or home office support, wellness perks, and potential visa sponsorship for relocation to NYC within 2+ years.

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