DevOps Engineer AWS - FinTech
Hands-on DevOps engineer designing and scaling AWS infrastructure for trading and market data products at a fast-growing fintech. Day to day: building platforms with Terraform IaC, managing ECS container workloads, improving CI/CD and observability, and enforcing cloud security/IAM — hybrid in London, up to £80k plus bonus.
- Compensation
- £80K / yr
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 2.1 or above from a top-tier university
- FinTech/financial services experience
- Strong AWS infrastructure experience
- Experience managing ECS-based container environments
- Hands-on with Terraform or similar IaC tools
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Understanding of cloud networking (VPCs, load balancing, security groups)
- Understanding of IAM/security principles
- Scripting/automation experience (Python or similar)
- Collaborative with good communication skills
Full description
Overview
In this hands-on DevOps role, you will design and scale AWS-based infrastructure to support trading and market data products. You’ll automate deployments, improve observability, and enforce security and governance across multi-environment environments. You’ll collaborate with software engineers to boost reliability, performance, and developer experience while driving cost optimisation and scalable platforms. This position offers hybrid London work arrangements and a clear path to shaping critical infra for a fast-growing tech-focused finance firm.
Pay / Benefits
- Salary up to 80k + bonus
- X3 weeks per year work anywhere
- 25 days holiday (30 with tenure)
- Pension 9% (company 5%, employee 4%)
- Healthcare for you and family
- Cycle to Work scheme
Responsibilities
- Design, automate and optimise AWS environments across multiple environments
- Own cloud infrastructure end-to-end with IaC (Terraform) to build scalable, resilient platforms
- Manage ECS-based containerised workloads and enhance CI/CD pipelines
- Automate deployments, monitoring and logging to improve observability
- Apply best practices for cloud security, networking, IAM and access management
- Collaborate with software engineers to improve platform reliability and developer experience
- Support database infrastructure, internal tooling and operational automation
- Contribute to infrastructure governance, documentation and cost optimisation
- Ensure systems are secure, maintainable and scalable for growth
Key requirements
- 2.1 or above from a top-tier university
- FinTech/financial services experience
- Strong AWS infrastructure experience
- Experience managing ECS-based container environments
- Hands-on with Terraform or similar IaC tools
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Understanding of cloud networking (VPCs, load balancing, security groups) and IAM/security principles
- Scripting/automation experience (Python or similar)
- Collaborative with good communication skills
- collaborative
- communication skills
- ambitious
- AWS
- ECS
- Terraform