Senior Platform Engineer (DevOps)

Fnality is building the future of financial market infrastructure – creating regulated, blockchain-based payment systems to power tomorrow’s wholesale banking ecosystem. Backed by leading global banks and operating at the intersection of technology, finance, and regulation, we are powering the future of finance, together. There are no precedents for what we’re doing. With you on our side, we’ll be setting new ones every day.

Working at Fnality

Be your best: We have a supportive culture that helps to bring the best out of each and every single one of our employees.

Feel free to explore: Bring your new ideas and help us to solve problems together by joining a community of experts.

Be part of something bigger: We will support you by fostering an open, honest culture, that enables flexibility and wellbeing. Feel part of something bigger while being yourself.

Feel empowered: We want you to feel empowered. The nature of our business can help make this a reality. We have the
agility, speed and innovation of a start-up, and a flexible working environment that enables this.

Role Purpose

The DevOps Engineer will play a key role in the strategic design, hands-on delivery, and oversight of workstreams relating to Cloud Platform, DevOps, Security and Network support for the Fnality Payment System.

As the SME, this person will be tasked with auditing the current technology ecosystem and making recommendations which future-proof the Platform model to support long term business growth. Having worked in a similar industry, the DevOps Engineer will have the knowledge and experience, basing their decision-making around considerations relating to the storage of highly sensitive data.

The engineer will be expected to be a proactive and confident practitioner of AI technologies, continually identifying responsible, secure and practical ways to use AI to increase their own throughput, improve the quality of engineering outcomes, and help the wider team deliver faster and more effectively.

Role & Responsibilities

• Apply your deep knowledge of Kubernetes and the application stack to bring new services to production through resilient, fully automated, cloud‑native delivery.

• Deploy and support Fnality highly resilient and scalable technology products and platforms to customers

• Demonstrates strong security awareness, with the ability to identify potential vulnerabilities and proactively remediate security risks.

• Working with the wider team to create, maintain and deliver against an organised and cross organisation aligned backlog of delivery and support operations

• Collaborate with Development, QA, Cyber Security, and SRE teams to deliver platform changes and ensure smooth, reliable operations.

• Maintain and enforce compliance standards across the platform, embedding controls into day‑to‑day engineering and operations.

• Drive observability and resilience by owning application monitoring, alerting, and event management.

• Reviews technical designs and provides well-founded input or challenges assumptions based on practical experience and industry best practices.
• Contributes to 24×7 operational support and incident management – please note our on-call requirements are not fully defined as yet, but there will eventually be an element of this

Skills And Experience

· Hands-on experience with AI-enabled engineering workflows, including agentic AI tools, code assistants, and automation patterns that improve platform delivery and operational effectiveness. Ideally with Claude or Copilot.

· Ability to integrate AI capabilities responsibly into DevOps and CI/CD practices, with consideration for security, governance, data protection, and safe use in regulated environments.

· Experience working as a DevOps/Cloud/Platform Senior or Lead Engineer as it relates to the seniority and complexity of the role

· Experience of successfully delivering secure, large-scale projects in a cloud environment

· Experience in supporting the development of DevOps pipelines

· Mandatory knowledge:

o Kubernetes and related tools (e.g: Docker, helm, Flux, EKS)

o CI/CD implementation and source control (Gitlab/Github)

o Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code

o Main AWS services (EC2, ELB, S3, RDS etc) and architecture concepts

· Knowledge of some of the following tech stack:

o Scripting languages

o AWS multi-account structure

o Prometheus, Grafana, ELK

o Microservices Architecture

o PKI / secret manage…