DevOps Engineer

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.