DevOps Engineer AWS – FinTech

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

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