Platform Lead (DevOps / Infrastructure)

FINN; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Competitive salary + equity

Job summary

FINN in the fintech space seeks a Platform Lead to own production cloud infrastructure and guide a growing Platform team. This role is heavily hands-on (70–80%) with leadership (20–30%), shaping architecture and standards across multiple markets.

You will drive IaC, CI/CD, observability, and security posture, while mentoring engineers and defining the technical direction. Remote with Asia overlap; growth toward Head of Platform/Infrastructure is possible.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering.
• Formal or informal team leadership experience.
• Strong cloud infrastructure expertise (AWS preferred).
• Production Kubernetes and container orchestration experience.
• IaC at scale with Terraform and modularization.
• CI/CD design with deployment strategies (blue-green, canary).
• Linux systems administration and observability expertise.
• Security mindset with access control and network security.
• Excellent communication and mentorship skills.
• Willing to overlap UTC+8 time zones (Asia) for ≥35h/week

Responsibilities

• Own and operate cloud infrastructure with IaC.
• Manage container orchestration workloads and autoscaling.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and quality gates.
• Drive observability with monitoring, logging, and tracing.
• Harden security posture and manage cloud security controls.
• Operate multi-cloud workloads across providers.
• Lead on-call rotation and root-cause analysis.
• Set technical direction and infrastructure roadmap.
• Mentor platform engineers and grow the team.
• Collaborate with product and leadership on infra strategy.

Skills

Platform leadership

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Observability

Security-minded

SRE mindset

Leadership & mentoring

Multi-cloud

Tools

AWS

GCP/Firebase

GitOps (ArgoCD)

GitHub Actions

Kafka/SQS

Job description

Platform Lead (DevOps / Infrastructure)

About Us

Are you ready to shape the financial future of a rapidly growing fintech that’s transforming lives across Southeast Asia and beyond?

We’re not your typical company — we’re a rocketship! At FINN , established in 2022 by experienced serial founders, we’re on a mission to transform financial well-being for underbanked employees. Our product provides early wage access, financial education, budgeting tools, part-time job opportunities, and micro-insurances. We’ve hit product-market fit and are scaling aggressively across multiple markets.

The Role

We need a true Platform Lead who stays deep in infrastructure but also guides a small, growing Platform team.

This is a heavily hands‑on role (70–80% technical) with people leadership (20–30% — 1:1s, code‑review ownership, tech direction, mentoring, team velocity). If you love architecting production‑grade cloud infrastructure yourself and helping engineers around you level up, this is for you.

You’ll own the infrastructure that powers a high‑growth fintech with high‑throughput production systems, serving hundreds of thousands of users across Southeast Asia and Africa. We’re in the middle of a major infrastructure maturity push: closing IaC gaps, hardening CI/CD, improving observability, and preparing our platform for rapid expansion across multiple markets.

This isn’t a role where you manage dashboards or sit in meetings all day. You’ll architect, build, and operate critical cloud infrastructure — while setting the technical direction for the Platform squad and growing the team. Future growth into Head of Platform / Infrastructure is realistic for the right person.

What You’ll Do

Technical (70–80%)

• Own and operate cloud infrastructure — compute, networking, identity, and security controls — using Infrastructure-as-Code
• Manage container orchestration workloads, including cluster upgrades, deployment management, and autoscaling
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines — automated testing, deployment automation, and quality gates
• Drive observability — implement and improve monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing across all services
• Harden security posture — cloud security posture management, automated scanning in CI, access policies, network security, and contributing toward industry security certifications
• Manage multi-cloud infrastructure — we run workloads across multiple cloud providers
• Operate messaging infrastructure — event-driven architectures, including retry strategies and dead-letter queue management
• Standardize market launches — build repeatable infrastructure provisioning so new markets can go live in days, not weeks
• Participate in on‑call rotation — respond to production incidents and drive root‑cause analysis and prevention

Leadership (20–30%)

• Set technical direction for the Platform squad — define the infrastructure roadmap, make build‑vs‑buy decisions, and establish engineering standards
• Run weekly 1:1s with platform engineers — coach, unblock, and help them grow
• Own code review across the platform domain — ensure quality, share knowledge, and maintain consistency
• Keep platform velocity high — prioritize work, remove blockers, and ensure the team ships reliably
• Mentor and develop the team — create an environment where engineers do their best work
• Support the wider engineering team — be the go‑to person for infrastructure questions, unblock developers, and create self‑service tooling
• Collaborate with product and engineering leadership — translate business needs into infrastructure strategy
• Contribute to hiring — help interview and assess platform engineering candidates as the team grows

Must‑Have Experience

• 7+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles
• Team leadership experience — formally or informally leading a small infrastructure/platform team (mentoring, 1:1s, technical direction)
• Strong cloud infrastructure expertise — compute, networking, identity management, queuing, monitoring, storage (we use AWS primarily)
• Container orchestration in production — cluster operations, package management, debugging, resource management (we use Kubernetes)
• Infrastructure-as-Code at scale — writing, reviewing, and managing IaC with proper state management and modularization (we use Terraform)
• CI/CD pipeline design — deployment automation, testing integration, and deployment strategies (blue‑green, canary)
• Linux systems administration — comfortable debugging at the OS level
• Monitoring and observability — setting up alerting, dashboards, log aggregation, and incident response
• Security mindset — experience with access control best practices, network security, secrets management
• Strong communication — able to explain infrastructure decisions to non‑infra engineers, present technical strategies to leadership, and mentor effectively
• Reliable internet and hardware , able to work ≥35h/week with decent overlap with UTC+8 (Singapore time)

Nice‑to‑Have

• Multi‑cloud experience (GCP, Firebase, or similar alongside AWS)
• GitOps deployment experience (e.g. ArgoCD or similar)
• Event streaming operations and tuning (e.g. Kafka)
• Compliance frameworks — ISO 27001, SOC 2, or similar
• Cost optimization — experience reducing cloud spend without sacrificing reliability
• Pen testing coordination or security audit experience
• Experience at a fintech or financial services company
• Experience with multi‑region or multi‑market infrastructure
• Previous experience growing a platform/infrastructure team (hiring, onboarding, defining team processes)

What We Use Today

Here’s what we work with today — familiarity is a bonus, not a requirement:

• Cloud : AWS (primary) + GCP/Firebase
• Orchestration : Kubernetes (EKS), Helm, ArgoCD
• IaC : Terraform
• CI/CD : GitHub Actions
• Messaging : Kafka, SQS
• Monitoring : Grafana, Sentry, CloudWatch
• Security : Prowler, Trivy, SonarCloud, Cloudflare WAF
• Backend : Node.js/TypeScript, Firebase Cloud Functions
• Frontend : Angular, Ionic/Capacitor

Why Join

• Real ownership — you’ll shape the infrastructure and the team that builds it
• Leadership trajectory — clear path from Platform Lead to Head of Platform/Infrastructure as the company scales
• Small team, big impact — a growing platform team, no layers of bureaucracy
• Growth trajectory — rapidly expanding across Southeast Asia and Africa
• Modern stack — container orchestration, IaC, GitOps, event-driven architecture
• Fully remote — work from anywhere with good overlap to Asia timezones #EMEA #APJ
• Competitive salary + meaningful equity (early-stage package)