Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer – Fintech Company (Hybrid, 3 days, New York)

Required

• 6+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Deep, practical experience managing and operating AWS environments.
• Strong production-level experience designing and scaling Kubernetes clusters.
• Proven track record of scaling high-availability production systems.
• Strong understanding of PostgreSQL administration, performance tuning, and scaling; specialized experience scaling PostgreSQL-intensive applications is a major plus.
• Extensive infrastructure-as-code experience utilizing Terraform or similar technologies.
• Robust experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines and modern observability tooling.
• Deep understanding of cloud, network, and application security, with a proven ability to manage sensitive or regulated data.
• Ability to operate independently and take ownership in a fast-moving, startup environment.
• Background in fintech, wealth management, banking, lending, payments, or other transaction-oriented platforms is highly desirable.
• Prior experience designing infrastructure specifically for financial-data platforms or working within SOC 2 compliant environments is preferred.
• Proficiency or hands-on experience with Python is a plus.