Job Overview:
We are seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer to join a global fintech organization specializing in cross-border payments technology. This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys owning infrastructure and operational challenges end-to-end, from cloud architecture and CI/CD pipelines to production reliability and incident response. The successful candidate will play a key role in building scalable, resilient platforms while driving the adoption of modern DevOps and AI-assisted engineering practices.
What You Will Do:
- Own and improve CI/CD pipeline reliability, developer experience, release management, and deployment automation across multiple engineering teams.
- Design, build, and operate secure, scalable, multi-region cloud infrastructure on AWS.
- Collaborate with engineering and architecture teams to implement modern developer platforms and AI-accelerated SDLC tooling.
- Manage production observability, monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes for shared infrastructure.
- Participate in on-call rotations and drive continuous improvements in reliability and operational excellence.
- Implement and maintain infrastructure as code solutions and cloud automation practices.
- Support disaster recovery, networking, identity management, and infrastructure security initiatives.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure scalable, secure, and resilient platform operations.
What Makes You a Good Fit:
- 3 to 6 years of experience building and operating production infrastructure environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud services, including multi-region deployments, IAM, networking, and managed services.
- Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.
- Proven experience owning CI/CD pipelines, release automation, deployment strategies, and release gating processes.
- Hands-on experience with container orchestration technologies in production environments.
- Strong experience with observability, monitoring, alerting systems, and service reliability engineering practices.
- Experience managing production incidents and participating in on-call rotations.
- Daily usage of AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, or equivalent platforms.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Nice to Have:
- Experience within payments, foreign exchange, fintech, or regulated industries.
- Experience with cloud-native identity and authentication platforms.
- Knowledge of security, governance, and compliance frameworks in regulated environments.
- Experience with enterprise database resilience solutions, such as Oracle or equivalent technologies.
- Experience working within globally distributed teams and supporting 24/7 operational environments.
What We Offer:
- Competitive market-based salary package.
- Annual discretionary bonus.
- Comprehensive healthcare coverage.
- Annual leave entitlement with incremental increases based on years of service.
- Paid birthday leave.
- Employee stock purchase program.
- Access to mental health and wellbeing support resources.
- Paid volunteering day to support a charity of your choice.
- Opportunity to work with a global fintech organization on large-scale, cloud-native payment platforms.
Working Arrangement:
- Hybrid working arrangement.
- Out stationed candidates must be willing to travel to the Christchurch office as required for company meetings, collaboration sessions, and events.
- Opportunity to collaborate with global engineering, architecture, and operations teams.
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