Sr Cloud & AI Infrastructure Engineer (AWS)

# Sr Cloud & AI Infrastructure Engineer (AWS)

**Company:** FopsAI

**Location:** Hyderabad, India (On-site)

**Type:** Full-time

**Reports to:** Founder / CTO

## About FopsAI

FopsAI is a London-based FinTech startup building Agentic intelligence for financial services operations. We automate the end-to-end Data operations lifecycle from data ingestion, transformation and intelligent matching to break detection and resolution, replacing manual spreadsheet workflows that cost the industry billions annually.

You will be among the first engineers, working directly with the technical founder who built the platform.

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## The Role

You will **own the cloud infrastructure** that powers a production SaaS platform serving financial institutions. This is not a passive “keep-the-lights-on” role, you will architect scaling strategies, optimise costs, harden security, and build the infrastructure backbone for AI workloads. As an early hire at a high-growth startup, you will also contribute to application development across the stack when needed.

### Primary Responsibilities

- **Cloud Infrastructure Ownership** — Manage and evolve the AWS production environment: compute, networking, storage, databases, caching, and security services

- **Scaling & Performance** — Design and implement auto-scaling strategies, diagnose production bottlenecks, and ensure the platform handles growing client workloads reliably

- **Infrastructure as Code** — Own and extend the Terraform codebase for repeatable, auditable infrastructure deployments

- **AI/ML Infrastructure** — Support and scale AI workloads including LLM service deployments, model inference pipelines, and vector storage

- **CI/CD & Deployment** — Maintain and improve automated build, test, and deployment pipelines across backend and frontend services

- **Observability & Incident Response** — Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and distributed tracing; lead incident diagnosis and resolution

- **Security & Compliance** — Uphold security best practices for a FinTech platform, including encryption, access controls, WAF management, and compliance readiness (SOC2, AWS FTR)

- **Cost Optimisation** — Monitor cloud spend, right-size resources, and implement cost-saving strategies as the platform scales

### Secondary Responsibilities

- Contribute to backend and/or frontend application development as needed

- Collaborate with business and operations teams on client onboarding infrastructure

- Evaluate and integrate new AWS services or third-party tools that benefit the platform

## What We’re Looking For

### Must Have

- **6+ years** hands-on experience with **AWS** in a production environment

- Strong experience with **containerised workloads** (ECS/Fargate or EKS, Docker, ECR)

- Proficiency in **Infrastructure as Code** (Terraform strongly preferred)

- Experience with **CI/CD pipelines** (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar)

- Solid understanding of **networking** (VPC, subnets, security groups, load balancers, DNS)

- Experience with **managed databases** (RDS PostgreSQL, ElastiCache/Redis)

- Familiarity with **monitoring and observability** tools (CloudWatch, X-Ray, Grafana, or similar)

- Working knowledge of **Linux** , scripting (Bash/Python), and troubleshooting production issues

- Understanding of **security fundamentals** IAM, encryption at rest/in transit, secrets management

### Great to Have

- Experience scaling **AI/ML workloads** in production (model serving, GPU instances, managed AI services like Bedrock/SageMaker)

- Backend development experience with **Python** (Django/FastAPI)

- Frontend development experience (React/Next.js)

- Experience with **asynchronous task processing** (Celery, SQS, or similar)

- Exposure to **FinTech or regulated environments** (SOC2, FTR, compliance frameworks)

- Experience with **S3 lifecycle management** , CloudTrail, GuardDuty, or Security Hub

- Familiarity with **serverless** patterns (Lambda, Amplify)

## Why Join FopsAI

- **Founding team member** — Shape the engineering culture and technical direction from day one

- **High ownership** — You will own entire systems, not tickets. Decisions you…