Senior DevOps Engineer

Prelim builds digital account-opening infrastructure for community banks and credit unions. The Senior DevOps Engineer will be the company’s first dedicated DevOps hire, owning infrastructure end to end, including deployment pipelines, reproducible environments, reliability, observability, compliance controls, incident response, and cloud costs.

Responsibilities:

• Own the build, test, and deploy pipeline. Our engineers ship fast; your job is to make shipping fast •and• safe: progressive rollouts, fast rollbacks, deploy confidence
• Make and enforce our infrastructure as fully reproducible environments via code
• Define and hit uptime targets our bank customers contractually depend on. Build out monitoring, alerting, and incident response so we find problems before our customers do. Mature our on-call practice from heroics into a system
• We sell to regulated financial institutions. Change management, access controls, and audit logging need to produce evidence, not just exist. You'll partner closely with our security function on our ongoing SOC 2 and bank due-diligence requirements
• Own the cloud bill. Growth shouldn't mean linear infrastructure spend

Requirements:

• 5+ years in DevOps / SRE / platform engineering roles
• Deep fluency with a major cloud provider (AWS) and infrastructure-as-code in production
• You've built CI/CD pipelines other engineers loved, not just tolerated
• Strong opinions on observability. You've instrumented systems, defined SLOs, and run incident processes
• Comfortable operating in a regulated or compliance-heavy environment, or eager to learn what that demands (SOC 2, ISO 27001)
• You default to automation and mechanisms over manual process, and you document what you build
• Pragmatic: you can tell the difference between what a 50-person company needs now and what a 400-person company needs later
• experience as an early or solo infra hire strongly preferred
• • Fintech, banking, or other regulated-industry experience
• • Experience with multi-tenant SaaS architecture
• • Database operations experience (backups, migrations, performance)
• • Security-adjacent skills: secrets management, network segmentation, least-privilege IAM