DevOps Engineer Capital Markets

DevOps Engineer - Capital Markets

United Fintech is building a global platform that connects financial institutions with modern scalable technology solutions. Through acquisitions and partnerships we bring together market-leading fintech products that serve banks exchange groups brokerages and investment firms worldwide.

Within United Fintech the Capital Markets division oversees a number of market leading FinTech products that are central to the success of some of the largest global financial institutions including banks exchange groups brokerages and investment firms. The teams deliver highly resilient secure and performance-critical technology in complex regulated environments.

To support the continued growth of the Capital Markets division and the ongoing harmonisation of our infrastructure and processes we are now seeking a DevOps Engineer to join our growing team in London.

If you are motivated by the intersection of capital markets infrastructure cloud technology and client delivery - and you are ready to take ownership in a fast-growing merit-driven environment - then keep reading. You might be who we are looking for.

The Role

This is a hands-on DevOps role where you will work across multiple products within the Capital Markets division supporting a growing client base and helping to ensure our platforms remain robust secure and scalable.

You will collaborate with colleagues at all levels of the organisation and play a key role in client onboarding platform reliability and operational excellence. As we continue to align infrastructure and surrounding processes across the products within the Capital Market division you will contribute directly to shaping how we operate at scale.

We are a team that prides itself on high standards. You will be recognised both on your results and on your wider contribution to the team and our clients. Responsibilities challenges and opportunities will grow rapidly based on clear objective meritocratic criteria.

Key responsibilities include:

• Managing our estate of AWS cloud assets:
  • IAM
  • Compute - EC2 ECS
  • Storage - S3 RDS DynamoDB
  • Cloudwatch
  • Networking
  • Security
  • Load Balancers & DNS Management
• Managing automated infrastructure delivery via Terraform
• Working with third party partners (platform vendors etc)
• Working with our CTO to manage the continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) pipelines and manage the release process
• Assisting with the onboarding of new customers
• Managing security authorised IPs key rotation etc
• Support documentation/wiki maintenance
• BCP planning and testing
• Continuation of adherence to SOC2/ISO27001 practices

Candidate Profile

We are looking for a DevOps professional who combines strong technical capability with a collaborative execution-focused mindset. You are comfortable working in complex high-availability environments and take ownership of outcomes from design through to delivery.

Essential to succeed:

• 3 years of hands-on AWS experience
• Strong experience with Terraform
• Linux administration experience (AWS Linux / CentOS)
• STEM background
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work across technical and non-technical teams
• High attention to detail and strong operational discipline
• A results-focused mindset with the ability to deliver high-quality work under tight deadlines
• Willingness to learn and adopt new technologies as the platform evolves
• Experience with:
• Ansible
• Prometheus

Helpful if you also bring

• Experience working with financial markets or market infrastructure
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (or similar)
• Microsoft O365 tenant management
• Experience with:
• Packer
• OpenVPN
• NGINX
• Docker
• Kubernetes

Working at United Fintech - London

You will work in an international and collaborative environment that values initiative precision and ownership. You will work alongside experienced colleagues across engineering product and leadership gaining exposure to global financial markets infrastructure and client delivery at scale.

We are a small highly collaborative team where every individual matters. Your contribution will be visible and valued and you will play an active role in delivering a first-class service to our clients.

We value independent thinking and flexibility and we support you in developing your skills while contributing to platforms that matter to the global financial community.

Location & Working Arrangements

The team primarily works from our office in London with flexible working arrangements. Once in a while we meet up but working mainly remotely from elsewhere in the UK also fits well to the way the team operates.

Remuneration & Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Pension
• Private Medical Insurance

About United Fintech

Founded in 2020 and backed by the industry United Fintech is a Digital Transformation Platform where global Financial Institutions and cutting-edge technology providers come together to unleash their full potential and enable the future of finance. United Fintech remains on the frontier of innovation by acquiring engineering-led fintechs within Capital Markets Wholesale Banking and Wealth Management under a central just over four years the company has acquired six fintechs. United Fintech has received strategic investments from Barclays BNP Paribas Citi Danske Bank and Standard Chartered and Danish Growth Capital.