Security & Infrastructure Lead for FinTech & Blockchain

Storm2; United States; On-site; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Storm2 partners with a Series A FinTech specializing in payroll products for web3 and blockchain. They seek a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to collaborate with executive leadership to build, secure, and scale critical systems supporting financial transactions and digital asset operations.

You will lead security across cloud, design scalable infrastructure, own platform reliability, and drive incident response, CI/CD, and compliance across the organization.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Infrastructure, Site Reliability, or Security Engineering.
• Strong experience with public cloud platforms and cloud-native architectures.
• Deep understanding of IAM, networking, secrets management, incident response, and infrastructure security.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code.
• Familiarity with distributed systems, databases, observability, and production operations.
• Exposure to blockchain, digital assets, wallets, or cryptocurrency infrastructure.
• Experience within fintech, payments, or other regulated environments is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead security initiatives across cloud, application, and payment platforms.
• Manage incident response, vulnerability management, access controls, and security best practices.
• Design and maintain secure, scalable infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
• Own platform reliability, monitoring, alerting, backups, disaster recovery, and operational excellence.
• Improve CI/CD processes and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Support production operations, troubleshooting, and release management.
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure secure integrations with blockchain and payment systems.
• Drive compliance, audit readiness, and risk management efforts.

Skills

DevOps

Infrastructure

Site Reliability

Security Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

AWS

CI/CD

IAM

Job description

Storm2 partners with a Series A FinTech specializing in payroll products for web3 and blockchain. They seek a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to collaborate with executive leadership to build, secure, and scale critical systems supporting financial transactions and digital asset operations.

You will lead security across cloud, design scalable infrastructure, own platform reliability, and drive incident response, CI/CD, and compliance across the organization.