Corporate Treasury - DevOps Engineer - Associate - Birmingham

About this role

Team overview:
Payment processing has recently become one of the key areas of focus for the financial services and fintech industry. It is at the centre of innovation for automating and streamlining flows to meet the needs of a variety of clients across the globe.

Our Payments Engineering team builds and supports systems that provide a comprehensive payment solution for the firm across institutional, consumer and internal clients. These systems manage the entire payment lifecycle, from initiation to execution, covering all inbound and outbound cash flows across multiple currencies, spanning multiple electronic payment networks and platforms globally.

Governing these critical flows is not a responsibility we take lightly. To meet changing business needs and to keep our stack updated with the latest technologies and trends, we are in the process of modernising our stack, rebuilding features on the Cloud and making them API-based. We are therefore looking for a DevOps Engineer to serve as a technical anchor for the Payments Engineering team.

The DevOps Engineer will be responsible for bridging the gap between software development and systems operations, ensuring high availability, security and scalability. The engineer will be hands-on, working in a pod (a specialised cross-functional team) and helping developers. The role extends into technical consulting and architectural oversight, capacity management, liaising between support teams and the internal cloud engineering team, and ensuring we adhere to the standards set by them. You will be the go-to expert for complex troubleshooting and operational decisions.

Responsibilities:

• Build and manage AWS platform infrastructure and manage application deployments across environments
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform or CloudFormation for VPCs, EC2, RDS, Lambda, and ECS/EKS
• Design and manage CI/CD pipelines with automated testing, security scanning (SAST/DAST) and zero-do...