Senior DevOps Engineer - Payments Infrastructure

Maxana; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

High-Impact Architecture Project

Executive Visibility

Competitive Contract Compensation

Flexible Remote Structure

Long-Term Engagement

Job summary

A leading fintech company is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to take ownership of the deployment and management of secure cloud infrastructure for a multi-PSP payment architecture. Responsibilities include implementing CI/CD processes, ensuring PCI compliance, and managing monitoring systems. The ideal candidate will have 6+ years of DevOps experience with a focus on AWS and fintech environments. This full-time remote position offers competitive compensation and long-term engagement with executive visibility.

Qualifications

• Minimum 6+ years of DevOps or Cloud engineering experience.
• Proficient in AWS infrastructure services such as VPC, IAM, ECS/EKS.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Design secure infrastructure on cloud platforms, preferably AWS.
• Implement continuous integration and delivery for payment services.
• Manage secrets and token storage in a secure manner.

Skills

DevOps expertise

Cloud infrastructure management

CI/CD implementation

Monitoring and logging tools

High-availability systems

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Datadog

Prometheus

Job description

Location: Remote (U.S. overlap preferred)
Type: Contract (Full-Time Preferred)
Domain: Payments / Fintech / eCommerce Infrastructure

About the Project

We are leading a modernization initiative for a high-growth digital commerce platform focused on payment orchestration, gateway optimization, and API-driven architecture.

Experience with orchestration platforms such as Gr4vy, Stripe, etc. is highly desirable, but not required. Deep payments experience is mandatory.

About the Role

This role will own deployment, infrastructure automation, observability, and security hardening for a multi-PSP payment architecture.

Responsibilities

• Design secure cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
• Implement CI/CD for payments services
• Manage secrets and token storage securely
• Ensure PCI-aligned infrastructure controls
• Implement monitoring and logging (Datadog, Prometheus, etc.)
• Support high-availability architecture

Qualifications

• 6+ years DevOps / Cloud engineering
• AWS infrastructure (VPC, IAM, ECS/EKS, Lambda, etc.)
• Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform preferred)
• Experience supporting payments or fintech environments
• Experience with high-availability, low-latency systems

Benefits

• High-Impact Architecture Project
• Executive Visibility
• Competitive Contract Compensation
• Flexible Remote Structure
• Clear Scope, Clear Timeline
• Long-Term Engagement
• Technical Ownership