Devops Engineer

PEAK6; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

market-leading salary with an annual

28 days of annual leave plus 10 NIhol

training and development budget

pension matched up to 7%

private health insurance

life insurance

flexible working hours

hybrid work schedule with some home

monthly catered lunches

unlimited drinks and snacks

hackathon events

charitable matching gift program

Job summary

Apex Fintech Solutions seeks a DevOps Engineer to design, build, and maintain automation for its batch processing platform across client environments. You will migrate run-day scripts into orchestrated pipelines and develop deployment tooling to track versions per environment.

The role blends application and systems engineering with client onboarding support, run-day operations, and cloud automation on AWS.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 3+ years experience as a developer (Python, Java, shell, etc.).
• Hands-on experience building and operating orchestrated deployment pipelines and production workflows.
• Strong Python and shell scripting (bash) skills.
• Experience with cloud platforms, primarily Amazon Web Services (AWS), and automating against them.
• Experience with Linux system administration and troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and managing versions and releases across multiple environments.
• Working knowledge of SQL and relational databases (PostgreSQL).
• A developer's mindset applied to operations: the ability to see a manual process, understand why it exists, and design something better.
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong communication and teamwork abilities.
• Nice to Have Experience working with Apache Airflow or similar workflow orchestration tools.
• Experience automating disaster recovery processes.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Java development experience.
• Background in financial services, brokerage operations, tax reporting, or cost basis processing.

Responsibilities

• Workflow Orchestration: Migrate existing run-day, disaster recovery, and operational scripts into orchestrated deployment pipelines and workflows.
• Design, build, and operate production workflows with clear dependencies, retries, and alerting.
• Script Parameterization: Refactor runtime scripts so they are parameterized, reusable, and environment-agnostic.
• Deployment Management: Build and maintain tooling that tracks build versions across environments and automates deployment and promotion.
• Client Implementations: Support new client onboarding by developing and adapting custom scripts, configuration, and automation.
• Run-Day Operations: Manage processing pipelines and run-day operations; troubleshoot batch failures and provide durable automated fixes.
• Cloud Automation: Build and operate automation on AWS using native CLIs, SDKs, and IaC practices.
• Monitoring and Notifications: Build alerting/notification automation (Slack, email).
• Process Improvement: Propose better solutions to make the platform more scalable and sustainable.
• Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation of workflows, runbooks, deployment procedures, and automation standards.
• Collaboration: Work with development, TechOps, and infrastructure teams to streamline code-to-production flow.

Job description

WHO WE ARE

Apex Fintech Solutions (Apex) powers innovation and the future of digital wealth management by building tech-forward solutions that help simplify, automate, and facilitate access to financial markets for all. Our robust suite of fintech software enables us to support clients such as Stash, Betterment, SoFi, Webull, and eToro, amongst many others; collectively, Apex powers access to the stock market for over 22+ million end customers. At Apex, we are changing how the securities industry operates by reinventing the status quo, which was manual, slow, and accessible only by the ultra-wealthy. We're digitizing and democratizing systems so that everyone has an opportunity to invest. When you're at Apex, you drive this change. You're part of a global team with a clear vision: to be the trusted technology that powers the digital economy. Our offices in Austin, Dallas, Chicago, New York, Portland, Belfast, and Manila are home to over 1,000 employees. Together, we’re shaping the future of financial innovation. Embrace change. Solve big. Win together. And be G.R.E.A.T. — grit, results, empathy, accountability, and teamwork — with Apex. We’re proud to be recognized for the innovative work we do, the purpose-driven nature of our work, and the collaborative culture we’ve created.

Here are just a few of the many awards we’ve recently received: Best Places to Work 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023 - Presented by BuiltIn WealthTech of the Year 2025 - Presented by US FinTech Awards The World’s Top 250 Fintech Companies 2024 - Presented by CNBC

ABOUT THIS ROLE

Position Overview: As a DevOps Engineer you will be a key member of the Apex Tax and Cost Basis engineering team, responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the automation that runs our batch processing platform across client environments. Your primary focus will be converting today's run-day and disaster recovery scripts into parameterized, orchestrated deployment pipelines and workflows, and building the deployment management tooling that tracks which version is running in each environment. This is a hybrid application engineering / systems engineering role: you will support new client implementations and custom scripts on the application side, and manage pipelines and run-day operations on the systems side. You will work closely with our development, TechOps, and cloud infrastructure teams to make the platform more sustainable and scalable.

Workflow Orchestration: Migrate existing run-day, disaster recovery, and operational scripts into orchestrated deployment pipelines and workflows. Design, build, and operate production workflows with clear dependencies, retries, and alerting.

Script Parameterization: Refactor runtime scripts so they are parameterized, reusable, and environment-agnostic, eliminating hardcoded per-client and per-environment values and the manual edits that come with them.

Deployment Management: Build and maintain tooling that tracks build versions across environments (development, QA, UAT, production) and automates deployment and promotion between them.

Client Implementations: Support new client onboarding by developing and adapting custom scripts, configuration, and automation on the application side.

Run-Day Operations: Manage processing pipelines and run-day operations. Troubleshoot batch failures, identify root cause, and replace repeat manual intervention with durable automated fixes.

Cloud Automation: Build and operate automation on Amazon Web Services (AWS) using native CLIs, SDKs, and infrastructure-as-code practices.

Monitoring and Notifications: Build alerting and notification automation (Slack, email) so failures and stalls surface before they affect clients.

Process Improvement: Think critically about existing processes and propose better solutions rather than maintaining the status quo. Drive improvements that make the platform more sustainable and scalable.

Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation of workflows, runbooks, deployment procedures, and automation standards.

Collaboration: Collaborate with development, TechOps, and infrastructure teams to streamline how work moves from code to production.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 3+ years experience as a developer (Python, Java, shell, etc.).
• Hands‑on experience building and operating orchestrated deployment pipelines and production workflows.
• Strong Python and shell scripting (bash) skills.
• Experience with cloud platforms, primarily Amazon Web Services (AWS), and automating against them.
• Experience with Linux system administration and troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and managing versions and releases across multiple environments.
• Working knowledge of SQL and relational databases (PostgreSQL).
• A developer's mindset applied to operations: the ability to see a manual process, understand why it exists, and design something better.
• Excellent problem‑solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong communication and teamwork abilities.
• Nice to Have Experience working with Apache Airflow or similar workflow orchestration tools.
• Experience automating disaster recovery processes.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Java development experience.
• Background in financial services, brokerage operations, tax reporting, or cost basis processing.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Our Rewards

• market-leading salary with an annual bonus
• 28 days of annual leave plus 10 Northern Ireland national holidays
• a training and development budget
• a pension matched up to 7%
• private health insurance for medical, dental, and optical care
• life insurance
• flexible working hours
• parental leavea modern city center office
• a hybrid work schedule that allows for greater flexibility by partially working from home
• monthly catered lunches
• unlimited drinks and snacks
• hackathon events
• poker tournaments
• a charitable matching gift program

EEO Statement

Apex Fintech Solutions is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, or any other protected characteristic. Our hiring practices ensure that all qualified applicants receive fair consideration without regard to these characteristics.

Disability Statement

Apex Fintech Solutions is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible workplace for all candidates, including those with disabilities. We are dedicated to ensuring equal employment opportunities and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you require reasonable accommodations to participate in the application or interview process, please submit your request via the Candidate Accommodation Requests Form. We will work with you to provide the necessary accommodations to ensure your full participation in our hiring process.

Company Culture

At Apex, we aim to enable frictionless investing for everyone.

Help us in our mission to democratize finance.

In every office, you’ll find passionate, committed, dedicated teams driven to find smart solutions to solve our clients’ toughest challenges. We are passionate about our employees, providing the benefits and perks that elevate you, reward you, and help you give back. We provide great flexibility, a collaborative, open work space, and real potential to grow with the firm.