Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer | Regulated Fintech | Remote-first (4 days monthly Berlin) I am partnered with a regulated fintech infrastructure company that are hiring a senior DevOps engineer to own and evolve their AWS Kubernetes platform at scale. This is a platform engineering role. You will work on the systems that product engineers depend on to ship reliably in a regulated environment. The focus is production ownership, operational clarity, and sound engineering decisions. What you’ll do Own and operate EKS clusters on AWS, including building new clusters from templates Design and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform Build and run CI/CD with Argo CD and related workflow tooling Design observability across metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and incident response using Datadog Improve developer experience across build, deploy, and operational workflows Participate in on-call and drive learning through post-incident reviews Contribute to platform direction with a product mindset How the platform looks AWS-first with EKS at the core Terraform for all infrastructure changes GitOps-style delivery with Argo CD Strong emphasis on monitoring design and failure modes Documentation and tickets are part of day-to-day work About you You operate at senior level in DevOps or platform engineering You have owned Kubernetes infrastructure in production You are comfortable debugging real incidents and explaining systems clearly You think in systems, trade-offs, and failure modes You work well with autonomy and minimal process You are comfortable in regulated environments Nice to have Datadog or OpenTelemetry experience Security or compliance awareness Experience in smaller teams with real platform ownership Exposure to AI or developer tooling platforms Benefits of the role Ownership of critical production infrastructure Direct impact on reliability, developer velocity, and platform design High trust environment with senior peers Hybrid working with regular in-person collaboration On-call compensation and competitive base salary Variable compensation planned If you want ownership of real infrastructure and decisions that matter in production, this is worth a conversation. #J-18808-Ljbffr Trust In SODA