DevOps Engineer

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to own the reliability, scalability, and evolution of our AWS infrastructure. You will take a critical look at what we have, identify bottlenecks, propose improvements, and execute on them. You'll stay current with emerging technologies, evaluate trade-offs, and help us stay ahead of the curve. This is a role for someone who doesn't just keep the lights on - you'll architect solutions, drive initiatives, and shape how we build and deploy financial technology at scale.

Your role at xpate:

• Take a critical look at our current AWS architecture and identify opportunities for improvement in reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.

• Own infrastructure reliability and availability - design monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes that catch issues before they become problems.

• Design and architect scalable, high-performance systems that handle real-time payment processing and financial transactions at scale.

• Manage and optimize our databases (Aurora, DynamoDB) and drive infrastructure as code practices, automation, and deployment pipelines that enable the team to ship fast and safely.

• Stay current with emerging technologies and propose improvements when they fit our domain.

• Own security and compliance aspects of our infrastructure - understand fintech regulations, data protection, and security best practices.

We’re ready to meet you, if…

• 4+ years designing and operating infrastructure in production environments.

• 2-3+ years with AWS (Lambda, S3, Aurora, RDS, DynamoDB, Cognito, API Gateway, SNS/SQS).

• Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code.

• Strong scripting skills and ability to automate operational tasks.

• Experience with event-driven architectures and asynchronous processing patterns.

• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to think critically about trade-offs.

• Ownership mentality: when something breaks, you understand why and prevent recurrence.

• Comfortable with ambiguity and proposing solutions to undefined problems.

Nice-to-Have:

• AWS certifications (AWS DevOps Professional, AWS Solutions Architect Professional).

• Experience in regulated industries (fintech, banking, healthcare) or deep understanding of compliance and security requirements.

• Experience with observability and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch).

• CI/CD pipeline experience.

• Knowledge of networking fundamentals (VPC, security groups, firewalls, routing).

• Experience mentoring junior engineers and leading technical initiatives.