DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer

Axra; United States; Remote; USD 93,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Axra is seeking a DevOps/SRE leader to own cloud infrastructure and delivery foundations for a fintech-focused service where reliability enables money movement. You will design and operate AWS infrastructure via Terraform, drive CI/CD improvements, and ensure secure, observable, and resilient systems across a globally distributed team.

Responsibilities include building scalable, highly available architectures, managing logs and metrics, and defining on-call practices.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.
• Strong AWS experience and Terraform for production infrastructure.
• Experience designing highly available systems with DR in sensitive environments.
• Strong security practices including least privilege and auditability.
• Solid Linux and shell skills with network debugging.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate AWS infrastructure with Terraform, including container, database, cache, and queue services.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, build speed, deployment safety, and rollback procedures.
• Maintain logs, metrics, traces, and alerting across the technology stack.
• Strengthen infrastructure security through access controls, network design, secrets management, and patching.
• Define service objectives, error budgets, and on-call practices with engineering leads.
• Build internal tools and improvements that make development and operations more effective.

Skills

DevOps

Site Reliability

Platform Engineering

AWS

Terraform

Disaster Recovery

Compliance

Security

Linux

Shell

Networking

Debugging

Tools

Kubernetes

EKS

PCI-DSS

Job description

Role overview

Own the cloud platform and delivery foundations for a service where reliability directly affects users’ ability to move money. You’ll manage production infrastructure, deployment workflows, security, and observability, while helping engineering teams release changes safely.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate AWS infrastructure with Terraform, including container, database, cache, and queue services.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, build speed, deployment safety, and rollback procedures.
• Maintain logs, metrics, traces, and alerting across the technology stack.
• Strengthen infrastructure security through access controls, network design, secrets management, and patching.
• Define service objectives, error budgets, and on-call practices with engineering leads.
• Build internal tools and improvements that make development and operations more effective.

Requirements

• At least four years in DevOps, site reliability, or platform engineering.
• Deep AWS experience and a track record managing production infrastructure with Terraform.
• Experience designing highly available systems and disaster recovery in compliance-sensitive settings.
• Strong security practices, including least privilege and auditability.
• Solid Linux and shell skills, with confidence debugging network-level issues.

Nice to have

• Kubernetes, especially EKS, or familiarity with PCI-DSS and financial infrastructure.
• Previous experience in fintech or payments.

Benefits and work setup

• Remote-first work with flexible hours and a globally distributed team.
• Annual learning budget, health cover for employees and dependants, and work equipment.
• Salary of £70,000–£88,000, reviewed every six months, plus stock options with a four-year vesting schedule and one-year cliff.