Senior DevOps Engineer - Payments Infrastructure

Maxana; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

High-Impact Architecture Project

Executive Visibility

Flexible Remote Structure

Long-Term Engagement

Technical Ownership

Competitive Contract Compensation

Job summary

Maxana is seeking a senior DevOps/Cloud engineer for a fully remote contract role focused on payments and fintech infrastructure. You will own deployment, infrastructure automation, observability, and security hardening for a multi-PSP payment architecture.

The role emphasizes design of secure AWS infrastructure, CI/CD for payments services, secret management, PCI-aligned controls, and robust monitoring with Datadog and Prometheus to ensure high availability.

Qualifications

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

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.

Skills

DevOps experience

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

Observability

Security hardening

Payments experience

Tools

Datadog

Prometheus

ECS/EKS

VPC/IAM

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

Requirements

• 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