Senior DevOps Engineer, Data and AI Infra

AIRWALLEX (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial technology company is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer in Singapore to design and enhance cloud infrastructure. Ideal candidates will have expertise in Kubernetes, GCP, and CI/CD pipelines. This role emphasizes collaboration and problem-solving within a dynamic team, aiming to support significant growth and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• Expertise in designing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience with cloud-based IaaS/PaaS deployments.
• Strong passion for automation and infrastructure-as-code.
• Familiarity with data streaming tools like Kafka or Flink.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of DevOps strategy and infrastructure.
• Develop and evolve cloud infrastructure for performance and security.
• Collaborate across teams to build consensus on tools and practices.
• Enhance operational metrics to improve reliability.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure design

Automation and scalability

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Problem-solving

Tools

GCP

Docker

Terraform

Gitlab

Job description

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 150,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.

Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 1,800 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$6.2 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Visa, Airtree, Blackbird, Sequoia, DST Global, Greenoaks, Salesforce Ventures, Lone Pine, and Square Peg, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you’re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.

Attributes We Value

We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you’re motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor.

You're humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products, and you “get stuff done” end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you’ll tackle complex, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let’s build what’s next.

Senior DevOps Engineer, Data & AI Infra

Hiring location: Singapore, Shanghai

About the team:

The team's focus will be around building a globally distributed, PCI DSS compliant platform using GCP and Kubernetes, whilst guiding and upskilling internal teams using best practices for building, deployment and scaling applications in the cloud. As we are a Financial Service company, security is at the core of our practices and automation.

What you’ll do:

• As a DevOps engineer in the team, you will be responsible for leading the design of our DevOps strategy, and working closely with cross-functional teams to develop and evolve the cloud infrastructure optimized for performance, scalability and security in order to support our next 10x growth.
• You will be working across multiple countries, owning our Data and AI infrastructure across the world.
• You will bring to the team a level of expertise in operational platform management, developing observability and detection capabilities that will decrease time to discover problems and allow our teams to increase stability and not sacrifice agility or security.
• A key aspect of this position will be building consensus amongst DevOps Engineers across geographies in different feature teams about the tools and practices we use, and evolving that consensus into agreed standards.
• This role is based in Singapore or Shanghai.

Responsibilities:

• You are committed – You strive to produce exceptional, risk free, fully tested solutions in all the platforms you build.
• You can think on your feet - with experience building platforms which resolve fast paced, ever changing success measures.
• You are a team player – you enjoy working in a collaborative, innovative and customer first driven environment.
• You are naturally curious – always asking why to better understand our customer needs.
• You are a passionate problem solver – You love digging deep and brainstorming with colleagues in order to come up with the best solution for a problem

Who you are:

We\'re looking for people who meet the minimum qualifications for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.

Minimum qualifications:

• The expertise to design, analyze and troubleshoot large-scale distributed systems.
• Demonstrates innovative methods of declaratively automating cloud-based IaaS/PaaS deployments and applications using modern and innovative GitOps and DevOps techniques and technologies.
• A love for operational metrics including MTTD & MTTR and the capabilities and practices that allow these to be continually improved upon.
• A strong passion for automation and repeatable processes.
• Deep exposure to public cloud (GCP, AWS or Azure), Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience working with a mainstream programming language such as Java, Go, Python or Rust.
• Broad experience with modern CI/CD pipelines (Gitlab, Jenkins, Argo etc).
• A fervent enthusiasm for infrastructure-as-code (we love Terraform).
• Data Streaming Tools such as Debezium, Kafka, Flink or Pinot
• Excellent understanding of OS, platform and network security practices, patterns and frameworks.
• Network topology and infrastructure architectures on Linux based platforms.

Equal opportunity

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary. If you are approached by someone claiming to represent Airwallex, please verify with our team.