Devops Engineer (Belfast)

MiFinity; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

MiFinity is seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer to accelerate our platform migration to AWS ECS using Terraform, GitHub Actions and Datadog. You will help extend our observability capabilities and improve developer velocity across teams.

You will design and optimise our CI/CD pipelines, manage AWS infrastructure, and implement self-service tooling while aligning with ISO27001 and PCI-DSS requirements to ensure security and cost efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement our Kubernetes (ECS) platform on AWS
• Maintain and optimise our CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
• Implement and manage observability using Datadog across our platform
• Support and enhance our AWS cloud infrastructure
• Architect, review, audit, optimise and document our deployment processes
• Follow best practice change management processes aligned with our ISO27001 and PCI-DSS requirements
• Work with development teams to enable self-service capabilities (developer experience)
• Assist with incident response and platform support
• Analyse and optimize cloud costs across our infrastructure

Skills

Cloud infrastructure experience

DevOps collaboration

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Datadog

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

MiFinity is a dynamic, licensed, and regulated fintech leader offering cost-effective, end-to-end payment solutions for businesses, merchants, and consumers. With over 20 years of experience in online payments, we have built a highly secure technology platform and a growing global network of financial and banking partners. Our core service, the MiFinity eWallet, enables seamless money transfers worldwide through our extensive bank network and local payment options. As we continue to expand across multiple global verticals, we foster a collaborative, inclusive work environment while maintaining a start-up culture that values flexibility, autonomy, and innovation across all of our offices in Dublin, Malta, and Belfast.

Role summary

We are currently looking for a candidate to join our team to help accelerate our platform migration to AWS ECS using Terraform, GitHub Actions and Datadog. Over the last 6 months, our team has successfully deployed Datadog as our observability platform, achieving 95% monitoring coverage across all services and significantly improving our incident response capabilities. Moving forward, we’re focused on completing our ECS migration, implementing advanced GitOps workflows, and building self-service developer platforms to enhance our engineering velocity.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement our Kubernetes (ECS) platform on AWS
• Maintain and optimise our CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
• Implement and manage observability using Datadog across our platform
• Support and enhance our AWS cloud infrastructure
• Architect, review, audit, optimise and document our deployment processes
• Follow best practice change management processes aligned with our ISO27001 and PCI-DSS requirements
• Work with development teams to enable self-service capabilities (developer experience)
• Assist with incident response and platform support
• Analyse and optimize cloud costs across our infrastructure