Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Lisk is building a new kind of financial platform for businesses, aiming to modernize corporate financial tooling. The Senior DevOps Engineer will own and evolve the cloud infrastructure, ensuring security, reliability, and efficiency as the platform scales.
Responsibilities
- Work as part of a tight-knit platform team. Partner closely with fellow engineers, sharing on-call, reviewing each other's infrastructure changes, and jointly owning the platform roadmap to add depth and resilience to a critical function
- Drive the platform roadmap. As the product and team scale, you'll help prioritize and ship infrastructure improvements across security, reliability, and observability, putting new capabilities in place ahead of demand
- Own our Infrastructure as Code. Extend and harden the Terraform/OpenTofu codebase that manages our AWS infrastructure across multiple isolated environments
- Run production at a fintech bar. Operate and improve highly available services on AWS with meaningful SLOs, alerting, and on-call discipline
- Lead on security. Drive least-privilege access, secrets management, network segmentation, encryption in transit and at rest, and audit logging. Treat every access grant as a reviewed change
- Build safe delivery pipelines. Maintain and improve CI/CD with keyless, short-lived cloud credentials so engineers ship quickly without ever handling long-lived secrets
- Make the platform observable. Own metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and actionable alerting; reduce noise and mean time to detect
- Plan for failure. Backups, restore drills, disaster recovery, and incident response, all tested rather than assumed
- Control cost. Keep AWS spend visible and efficient without compromising reliability or security
- Raise the team's bar. Review infrastructure PRs, write runbooks, and pair with product engineers so good operational practice is the default, not an afterthought
Skills
- 5+ years in DevOps / SRE / SysOps / Platform Engineering, with significant ownership of production AWS environments
- Deep, hands-on AWS. Real depth across IAM, compute, networking, managed databases, storage, secrets, and observability, not just 'I've used the console'
- Expert in Infrastructure as Code, specifically Terraform or OpenTofu, covering modules, remote state, drift management, and managing multiple isolated environments from one codebase
- Strong security instincts. You design least-privilege by default, think in blast radius, and have managed secrets and credentials for systems that matter. You can explain why a permission exists
- CI/CD fluency, ideally GitHub Actions, including OIDC / keyless cloud authentication
- Production operations maturity. Observability, alerting, incident response, backups, and disaster recovery, all as lived experience
- A bias for shipping. You deliver, you don't just advise, bringing a track record of actually shipping hardening, migration, and reliability work, not only designing it
- Self-sufficient in a lean team. Comfortable owning large areas independently on a small platform team, without needing a big platform org around you to be effective
- Remote-first working style. Clear written communication, self-direction, and comfort owning outcomes across time zones
- Experience in FinTech, payments, banking, or another regulated/high-trust environment (SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, or similar compliance exposure)
- Web3 / crypto infrastructure experience running nodes, managing keys and HSMs, and securing systems that touch on-chain assets
- Threat modeling, security audits, or formal incident-response leadership
- Database operations depth (Postgres tuning, zero-downtime migrations)
- Kubernetes, service mesh, or large-scale container orchestration
- Cost-optimization wins you can point to
- Network architecture at scale: multi-account/Transit Gateway or VPC peering, private egress design, or hardening east-west traffic between services
- Exposure to a second cloud (GCP/Azure) or genuine multi-cloud networking, useful as a signal of provider-agnostic IaC and network design, even though our stack is AWS-first today
Benefits
- Flexible work schedule so you can balance life and work on your terms
- 25 days off per year
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