Lead SRE / Technology Operations (DevSecOps)

This is a hands-on ownership role for someone who wants direct responsibility for production infrastructure, reliability, security operations and technology controls within a regulated environment.

The Role As Lead SRE / Technology Operations, you will own the reliability and operational readiness of the production technology environment. You will be the person responsible when production breaks and for ensuring there is a clear, evidenced process for understanding what happened and preventing recurrence.

Key responsibilities include:

• Own production infrastructure, monitoring, observability and access controls
• Manage incident response, RCA, runbooks and escalation procedures
• Own business continuity, backup/restore and disaster recovery testing
• Manage cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code
• Design and maintain IAM/PAM, least-privilege access and periodic access reviews
• Own CI/CD pipelines and deployment approval controls
• Coordinate security operations with outsourced CISO, SOC and managed security providers
• Coordinate penetration testing, vulnerability remediation and retesting
• Manage secrets, certificates and infrastructure security hardening
• Maintain operational and technical control evidence required for regulatory and audit purposes
• Support wallet/custody operational controls and reconciliation processes where applicable

This Role Will Suit Someone Who Has

• Personally owned production infrastructure rather than simply managing a technical team
• Is comfortable being hands-on when incidents occur
• Can balance reliability and delivery with security and regulatory requirements
• Understands that documentation and control evidence are part of operating a regulated platform
• Can work independently within a small, senior technology function
• Is comfortable working directly with the CTO, auditors, security partners and external vendors

This is not a purely managerial position. We are specifically looking for someone who has remained technically hands-on and has personally owned production incidents, infrastructure and operational controls.

Desired Candidate Profile

• 6+ years of hands-on experience across SRE, DevOps, DevSecOps, platform or infrastructure engineering
• 2+ years working within fintech, banking, exchange, brokerage or another genuinely regulated/audited environment
• Strong production experience with AWS or equivalent cloud platforms
• Hands-on Kubernetes experience
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience, particularly Terraform, Ansible or equivalent
• Solid IAM/PAM and access-control experience
• Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines
• Strong incident management, monitoring and observability experience
• Practical experience with backup/restore and disaster recovery, including RTO/RPO and failover testing
• Experience working with an outsourced CISO, SOC or managed security provider
• Experience managing vulnerabilities, penetration-test remediation and security findings
• Comfortable owning audit evidence and working within formal control environments
• Experience with crypto, digital assets, custody, wallet operations, Fireblocks, BitGo, blockchain infrastructure or KYT would be highly advantageous. However, this is not a hard requirement.
• Strong SRE/DevSecOps professionals coming from regulated banking, fintech, brokerage or other audited environments will also be considered.
• Personally owned production infrastructure rather than simply managing a technical team
• Is comfortable being hands-on when incidents occur
• Can balance reliability and delivery with security and regulatory requirements
• Understands that documentation and control evidence are part of operating a regulated platform
• Can work independently within a small, senior technology function
• Is comfortable working directly with the CTO, auditors, security partners and external vendors