Staff DevOps Engineer

Job title: Staff DevOps Engineer

About the Role

As a Staff DevOps Engineer at Tazapay, you will design and operate highly scalable, secure cloud infrastructure for a large fintech platform. You will lead DevOps practices, mentor engineers, and drive platform initiatives across reliability, performance, and security, including PCI-DSS and SOC2 compliance. You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate requirements into scalable infrastructure and a clear platform roadmap.

What You'll Do

• Make architectural tradeoffs, design and deliver highly scalable, reliable, secure and fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure

• Be a role model for DevOps and platform engineers; mentor engineers

• Demonstrate technical leadership and create impact across teams

• Lead AI strategy and adoption for productivity, infrastructure automation and operational efficiency

• Drive infrastructure and deployment practices while being secure and compliant (PCI-DSS, SOC2 and others)

• Participate in infrastructure, architecture and security design reviews to maintain our high engineering standards

• Partner with engineering and product management teams to define and execute the platform roadmap

• Translate business and engineering requirements into scalable and extensible infrastructure design

• Proactively manage stakeholder communication related to deliverables, risks, changes and dependencies

• Coordinate with cross functional teams (Backend, Frontend, Data, Security, QA etc.) on planning and execution

• Continuously improve platform reliability, developer experience, deployment velocity and operational excellence

• Engage in capacity and demand planning, system performance analysis, tuning and cost optimization

• Lead production outages, incident response, post-mortems and drive SRE practices across the engineering organisation

• What We're Looking For

• Education: Degree in Computer Science or equivalent (B.E/B.Tech or higher) with 10+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform or Cloud Engineering roles for large distributed systems in reputed organizations

• Must have: Hands-on experience in designing, building and operating cloud infrastructure for large scale production systems on AWS

• Must have: Deep knowledge of Linux as a production environment

• Must have: Strong knowledge of distributed systems, networking, systems internals and asynchronous architectures

• Must have: Expert in at least 1 of the following languages for automation and tooling: Go, Python, shell scripting

• Must have: Extensive experience with AWS services (ECS, EC2, VPC, IAM, RDS, Kinesis, Secrets Manager, SSM, WAF and more)

• Must have: Infrastructure as Code expertise with Terraform, CDK or CloudFormation

• Must have: Strong experience with CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, and GitOps tools

• Must have: Hands-on experience with observability stacks - Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing and log aggregation

• Must have: Experience with container infrastructure - Docker, container runtimes and image security

• Must have: Experience administering and operating RDBMS/NoSQL systems at scale, such as Postgres, MongoDB and Redis

• Must have: Ability to design and operate low latency services behind load balancers and API gateways

• Must have: Strong understanding of system performance, scaling and reliability engineering

• Must have: Possess excellent communication, sharp analytical abilities with proven design skills, able to think critically of the current platform in terms of growth and stability

• Must have: Experience with microservice architecture and service-to-service communication patterns

• Must have: Continuously refactor infrastructure and tooling to ensure high-quality design

• Must have: Ability to plan, prioritize, estimate and execute platform releases with good degree of predictability

• Must have: Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to alleviate dependency risks

• Must have: Passion for learning new things, solving challenging problems

• Nice to have: Prior experience with fintech and payments

• Nice to have: Expert level proficiency with Kubernetes in production

• Nice to have: Prior experience operating infrastructure for stablecoins, blockchain or cryptocurrency platforms

• Nice to have: AWS Cloud Certifications

• Nice to have: Familiarity with security standards and compliance - PCI-DSS, SOC2, OWASP, static code analysis

• Nice to have: Familiarity with data engineering services - Clickhouse, Dbt ETL

• Nice to have: Experience working for a start-up

• Compensation & Benefits

• Salary: Not disclosed

• Benefits: Not disclosed