Devops Engineer

About MiFinity:

MiFinity is a dynamic, licensed, and regulated fintech leader offering cost-effective, end-to-end payment solutions for businesses, merchants, and consumers. With over 20 years of experience in online payments, we have built a highly secure technology platform and a growing global network of financial and banking partners. Our core service, the MiFinity eWallet, enables seamless money transfers worldwide through our extensive bank network and local payment options. As we continue to expand across multiple global verticals, we foster a collaborative, inclusive work environment while maintaining a start-up culture that values flexibility, autonomy, and innovation across all of our offices in Dublin, Malta, and Belfast.

We are currently looking for a candidate to join our team to help accelerate our platform migration to AWS ECS using Terraform, GitHub Actions and Datadog. Over the last 6 months, our team has successfully deployed Datadog as our observability platform, achieving 95% monitoring coverage across all services and significantly improving our incident response capabilities. Moving forward, we're focused on completing our ECS migration, implementing advanced GitOps workflows, and building self-service developer platforms to enhance our engineering velocity.

 

Benefits:

• Private Healthcare plan post probation.

• Generous Pension Scheme.

• Remote work allowance post probation beginning at 3 weeks in year 1 and increasing with tenure.

• Additional special leave days such as extra day for birthday/moving home, extra days for marriage, graduation, citizenship ceremony.

• Study and Exam Leave to further support career and educational growth.

• Continuous Development Program sponsoring further education through courses and workshops.

 

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement our Kubernetes (ECS) platform on AWS

• Maintain and optimise our CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions  

• Implement and manage observability using Datadog across our platform

• Support and enhance our AWS cloud infrastructure

• Architect, review, audit, optimise and document our deployment processes

• Follow best practice change management processes aligned with our ISO27001 and PCI-DSS requirements

• Work with development teams to enable self-service capabilities (developer experience)

• Assist with incident response and platform support

• Analyse and optimize cloud costs across our infrastructure

Core Skills:

• 3+ years’ experience in a senior AWS platform/DevOps engineering role

• Experience designing AWS multi-region, highly available architectures

• Strong Kubernetes experience, particularly with AWS ECS

• Strong experience working with AWS ECS docker migrations

• Experience implementing and managing Datadog observability 

• Strong AWS knowledge across compute, database and security services

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform

• Solid understanding of container security and best practices

• Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash)

• Experience working in regulated environments (PCI-DSS preferred)

• Self-motivated individual with strong communication skills

• Ability to work on projects with multiple workstreams and competing deadlines

Good to have:

Experience with

• GitOps workflows and tools

• Service mesh technologies 

• Platform engineering concepts

• AWS cost optimization

• Linux administration

• Database administration 

• Financial services domain

• Agile/SAFe methodologies