Senior DevOps Engineer - Fintech Infra Lead (Remote)

Prelim; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

401K

Parental leave

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

Unlimited PTO

Remote work stipend

Lifestyle stipend

Company retreats

Job summary

Prelim is a San Francisco/New York-based startup hiring a dedicated DevOps/SRE engineer to own infrastructure end to end. You will own the build, test, and deploy pipeline, enforce reproducible environments, and drive uptime targets for regulated financial customers.

You will design and implement CI/CD pipelines, instrument systems for observability with defined SLOs, and partner with security on SOC 2 and due-diligence.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps/SRE/platform engineering roles, solo or early infra hire preferred.
• Fluency with AWS and infrastructure-as-code in production environments.
• Built CI/CD pipelines that teams actually love to use.
• Strong observability: instrumented systems, defined SLOs, incident processes.
• Comfort with regulated/compliance-heavy settings (SOC 2, ISO 27001).
• Automate-first approach and thorough documentation.

Responsibilities

• Own build, test, and deploy pipeline with fast and safe shipping practices.
• Ensure infrastructure is fully reproducible via code and standard practices.
• Define uptime targets and implement monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
• Collaborate on SOC 2 and bank due-diligence requirements with security.
• Manage cloud spend and optimize infrastructure cost.

Skills

DevOps/SRE experience

AWS expertise

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD pipelines

Observability and SLOs

Automation & documentation

Regulated/compliance mindset

Tools

AWS

Job description

Prelim is a San Francisco/New York-based startup hiring a dedicated DevOps/SRE engineer to own infrastructure end to end. You will own the build, test, and deploy pipeline, enforce reproducible environments, and drive uptime targets for regulated financial customers.

You will design and implement CI/CD pipelines, instrument systems for observability with defined SLOs, and partner with security on SOC 2 and due-diligence.