DevOps Engineer - Elite FinTech - £100,000-£130,000 + Bonus

Job Title: DevOps Engineer

Client: Elite FinTech Firm

Salary: £100-£130K + Bonus

Location: London (2 days a week in the office)

A rapidly growing fintech firm is hiring a DevOps Engineer to join a highly technical Infrastructure team that manages both cloud and on prem systems.

The company is investing heavily across technology with significant headcount growth, a strong project pipeline and multiple greenfield initiatives underway.

This is an opportunity to work in a genuinely engineering-led environment where technologists report to technologists, bureaucracy is minimal, and engineers have real ownership over platforms and architecture.

The ideal candidate will stem from a background in Financial Services – Banking, Trading, Exchanges are ideal.

The Role

You’ll join a small but highly impactful infrastructure function working closely with DevOps and platform engineering teams on large-scale Linux environments and next-generation hybrid infrastructure.

Key responsibilities include:

• Building and scaling Linux-based infrastructure platforms
• Supporting large OpenShift/Kubernetes environments
• Delivering infrastructure for high-performance fintech systems
• Automating deployments and operational workflows
• Working across AWS and hybrid/on-prem environments
• Supporting CI/CD and containerised deployment pipelines
• Collaborating with engineers across infrastructure and development teams
• Contributing to greenfield platform and automation projects

This role offers significant ownership and the chance to shape infrastructure as the company continues to scale.

Tech Environment

• Linux
• Kubernetes
• AWS
• Terraform
• Docker / ECS
• GitLab CI/CD
• Python
• Networking (TCP/UDP etc.)

What They’re Looking For

• 5+ years + Linux infrastructure/sysadmin/devops experience is essential
• Experience working in highly available production environments
• Good automation/scripting skills, ideally Python
• Terraform experience is essential
• Understanding of networking fundamentals
• Exposure to containers, CI/CD and cloud platforms
• Strong engineering mindset with willingness to learn