DevOps Engineer

The company is a technology-driven financial services provider supporting payments and financial infrastructure for the automotive lending ecosystem. The DevOps Engineer will become the first dedicated DevOps hire, owning infrastructure, platform engineering, security, observability, compliance, and operational standards while establishing scalable practices for growth.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary owner of DevOps, infrastructure, platform engineering, and related operational standards
• Restructure repositories and deployment processes to properly isolate sensitive systems and services
• Consolidate database migrations into a unified, service-oriented repository structure
• Implement database read replicas and support application teams in separating read and write workloads
• Migrate messaging infrastructure to JetStream and improve queue/streaming capabilities
• Build and maintain secure access to internal resources using VPN, zero-trust, Tailscale, or similar technologies
• Partner directly with compliance leadership on information security, access controls, audit logging, secrets management, and SOC 2 initiatives
• Strengthen observability through CloudWatch, Datadog, error tracing, logging, and monitoring improvements
• Develop analytics and visibility pipelines using application and infrastructure logs
• Create dashboards providing ongoing visibility into application resources, including CPU, memory, and infrastructure utilization
• Establish proactive infrastructure practices around capacity planning, cost management, incident readiness, and reliability
• Provide day-to-day technical support to the engineering organization while maintaining focused time for larger infrastructure initiatives
• Identify infrastructure and security improvements and independently develop solutions rather than relying on predetermined processes
• Help establish the standards, architecture, tooling, and operational practices that will support the company's continued growth

Requirements:

• 4+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a closely related role
• Strong hands-on AWS experience, including CloudWatch, networking, IAM, and core infrastructure services
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform, Pulumi, or a comparable platform
• Hands-on experience with Datadog or another enterprise observability/monitoring platform
• Strong understanding of relational databases, including migrations, replication, and read/write splitting
• Experience with message queues or streaming technologies such as NATS/JetStream, Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar
• Experience implementing secure network access using VPN, Tailscale, zero-trust solutions, or comparable technologies
• Ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, compliance, and executive leadership
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills with the ability to independently identify issues and propose solutions
• Comfort working in a startup or growth-stage environment where requirements can evolve and priorities may shift
• Experience in fintech, payments, financial services, or another regulated environment is preferred but not required
• Familiarity with SOC 2 or similar compliance frameworks is a plus
• Previous experience as the first or only DevOps/infrastructure hire is highly desirable
• Bachelor's degree preferred but not required
• AWS certifications are a plus but not required