Fintua are a rapidly growing company with a strong reputation for innovation and excellence, recognised through numerous prestigious awards including Fintech of the Year, Deloitte Best Managed Company, and the Irish Accountancy Awards for Best Use of Technology and Accounting 2025. These accolades reflect our commitment to delivering cutting-edge solutions, operational excellence, and exceptional value to our clients. As our business continues to scale and our product offerings expand, we are investing further in our future by growing our development team, bringing in talented individuals who are eager to help shape the next phase of our success.
Fintua is transforming its platform into a fully automated, serverless-first AWS environment. This includes the adoption of Lambda, EventBridge, DynamoDB, Aurora Limitless, AWS Glue, automated deployments, and Infrastructure as Code.
We are hiring a DevOps/CloudOps Engineer to support the Cloud Architect in building, maintaining, and evolving this cloud environment.
This role is responsible for operational excellence, environment automation, CI/CD pipelines, IaC, monitoring, and ensuring smooth delivery from development to production.
The successful candidate will be proactive, take ownership, work autonomously, and help enforce strong engineering and operational practices across the organisation.
Location:
Hybrid Kilkenny - must be able to attend the Kilkenny office 2x per week.
Responsibilities
Cloud Infrastructure & Automation
* Build and maintain AWS environments using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or AWS CDK).
* Implement and manage automated deployment processes for both application and infrastructure changes.
* Support the Cloud Architect in implementing serverless and event driven patterns including Lambda, EventBridge, Step Functions, SQS, SNS, API Gateway, DynamoDB, and Glue.
* Maintain and optimise Aurora Limitless clusters, including backups, monitoring, failover testing, schema updates, and connection patterns.
* Design and operate secure networking architectures including VPCs, subnets, NAT, routing, and private integrations.
CI/CD & Tooling
* Build, improve, and support CI/CD pipelines for all engineering teams, ensuring safe and repeatable releases.
* Create automated workflows for testing, linting, security scanning, packaging, and deployment.
* Maintain container build pipelines for any services running in ECS Fargate or similar.
Monitoring, Observability, and Reliability
* Implement CloudWatch dashboards, metrics, logs, alerts, and trace pipelines.
* Support event driven architectures with DLQs, retries, idempotency checks, and failure recovery patterns.
* Provide operational support for production workloads, including on call rotation as the team grows.
* Automate recurring operational tasks, reduce manual processes, and improve system reliability.
Security, Governance, and Compliance
* Manage IAM roles, policies, secrets management, and encryption controls.
* Ensure cloud infrastructure aligns with internal security standards and customer expectations.
* Assist in audit and compliance processes by ensuring accurate logging, monitoring, and configuration tracking.
Collaboration & Ownership
* Work closely with the Cloud Architect to implement the target architecture.
* Partner with engineering squads to ensure cloud resources are used correctly and efficiently.
* Contribute feedback to architectural designs and challenge inefficiencies or legacy practices.
* Take ownership of DevOps and CloudOps processes, driving continuous improvement.
Required Experience
* Strong experience operating production workloads on AWS.
* Hands on expertise with Terraform or AWS CDK for Infrastructure as Code.
* Building and managing CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab, CodePipeline, or similar).
* Experience with serverless technologies such as Lambda, DynamoDB, EventBridge, Step Functions, and SQS.
* Exposure to Glue for ETL workflows or data processing.
* Comfort working with relational and NoSQL databases including Aurora and DynamoDB.
* Good understanding of networking fundamentals, VPC design, security groups, and cross account patterns.
* Experience implementing logging, monitoring, and alerting in CloudWatch or similar tools.
Desirable
* Experience in fintech, compliance platforms, or large multi tenant SaaS environments.
* Familiarity with Aurora Limitless.
* Knowledge of container workloads (ECS Fargate).
* Understanding of rate limiting, high throughput workloads, and event driven architectures.
Personal Attributes
* Self motivated, proactive, and comfortable taking ownership.
* Strong communicator who can work closely with architects, engineers, and product teams.
* Detail oriented with a mindset focused on automation, reliability, and operational excellence.
* Demonstrates pride in running a clean, stable, well monitored production environment.
Recognised as a both a Great Place to Work and Deloitte Best Managed Company, we believe that recognition goes much deeper than just financial rewards. Therefore, in addition to a competitive salary, we also offer an exclusive benefits package that includes:
* Competitive pension
* Flexible Working Policy with a combination of remote and office working and a flexible approach to working hours
* Competitive annual leave and a number of other leaves including IVF, compassion, marriage, maternity and paternity leave
* Employee-led CSR Programme, CluneTech Cares, with one paid Volunteer Day per year
* Death in Service Benefit
* Milestone Recognition Programme
* Professional & Personal Development
* Rewards & Recognition
* Employee Wellbeing Programme, CluneTech Life
Fintua is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.