Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Description

Senior DevOps Engineer

Who we are?

ISX Financial EU Plc is an authorised Electronic Money Institution licensed by the Central Bank of Cyprus. The company provides payments, issuance of electronic money, IBAN addressable stored value accounts and KYC identity verification services to eCommerce merchants, regulated sector businesses and consumers. 

ISX Financial EU Plc also operates a sophisticated & patented anti-money laundering and anti-fraud system that also provides transactional security to business and retail customers. It is real time and detects the AML issues currently in focus by regulators. 

ISX Financial EU Plc is part of the ISX Financial Group of companies. Our inhouse developed platforms allow us to deliver technology and financial services to our customers. The Group employs more than 140 staff located across our offices located in Australia, Cyprus, Lithuania, United Kingdom, Netherlands, USA, Israel, Malta.

The role:

As a DevOps Engineer in iSX Financial, you'll be working with the international ISX team, our customers, banks, financial institutions, payment service providers, and identity service providers to build innovative solutions like Probanx, Paydentity, CoreConnect, and Flykk eMoney

Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Design & Deliver solutions to our customers.
• Work with the business, and broader technology team to agree software specifications and standards.

• Manage the entire infrastructure lifecycle for our services.
• Improve and maintain automation and CI/CD for the development process.
• Understanding team workflow processes and analyzing opportunities for improvement.
• Document procedures and protocols.
• Lead cloud migration projects.
• Automate processes.

Run a high-quality service:

• Maintain a minimum of 99.5% uptime with automation, tools, and processes.
• Manage the cost of providing new and existing services.
• Participate in incident responses and remediation.

Security and Compliance are key to what we do:

• Develop and implement software and services that meet international standards like ISO 27001/PCI DSS, and local/scheme requirements.
• Working closely with the Security/Compliance teams (Security & Privacy)
• Improve our compliance and security processes and frameworks (SSDLC)

Skills and Requirements:

• 3+ years of Hands-on experience in at least one major public cloud platform (preferably AWS/Azure)
• 3+ years of experience with IaC such a Terraform (preferred).
• Experience with Kubernetes (K8s).
• Experience with Python/ PowerShell / Linux shell scripting (bash) and automation.
• Experience implementing CI/CD for code and infrastructure with Git, Docker, and Jenkins pipeline.
• Understanding of TCP/IP Networking, routing, and VPN technologies.
• Experienced with enterprise-level networks including basic protocols, routing, and switching
• High level of problem-solving skills and debugging of high-complexity systems
• Team player

Desirable Experience:

• Payments (cards, ACH, CHIPS, Fedwire, SWIFT), core banking, risk, or other fintech experience.
• Operating in a SaaS model in a 24x7 environment.
• Designing and delivering high availability systems built on AWS.
• Implementing security in Public Cloud Infrastructure & public facing APIs
• AWS services: Elastic Kubernetes Service, Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), Lambda and API gateway.
• Deploying, operating, and diagnosing software written in Java (Spring Boot), C# (.NET framework or .NET core), iOS mobile applications, REST, and React.
• Work with database: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, ActiveMQ, or Kafka.
• Exposure to any of PagerDuty, CloudWatch, ElasticSearch/Logstash/Kibana, and Prometheus/Grafana
• Engineering or Computer Science Degree or Advanced Certificates

The Package:

• Attractive remuneration package
• Private Medical Insurance
• Employee Referral bonus
• Internal cafeteria with barista, unlimited snacks, fruits, drinks
• Sports Benefit participation scheme
• Birthday leave
• Performance Bonus, including mix of cash and share-based scheme of company stock for outstanding performers.