DevOps Engineer (Platform & Deployment Architecture)

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About Us

At South Geeks, we connect top LATAM engineering talent with innovative companies building impactful products worldwide. We focus on long-term partnerships, strong technical environments, and creating spaces where professionals can grow, contribute and thrive.

About the Client

Our client is a financial technology company that provides secure payment and prepaid card solutions for public sector organizations. Their platform powers critical payment workflows for government agencies, replacing cash and paper-based processes with reliable digital systems.

Operating in a highly sensitive and regulated domain, their infrastructure must prioritize reliability, recoverability and transparency, ensuring that financial operations remain stable and traceable at all times.

About the Role

We’re looking for a DevOps Engineer to design and build a new deployment platform from the ground up. Today, deployments rely on a functional but outdated, homegrown PHP-based system. While it offers strong recoverability, it lacks the flexibility needed to support modern workloads — particularly the introduction of Rust-based services.

Your mission will be to design and implement a containerized deployment system that enables reliable, observable, and maintainable releases across the platform. This is a high-impact role where you will define the tooling, architecture, and best practices working closely with engineers who are not DevOps specialists.

This is ideal for someone who enjoys building simple, durable systems rather than over-engineered pipelines, and who values clarity, recoverability, and long-term maintainability.

What You Need to Succeed in This Role

• Strong experience designing and implementing containerized deployment systems.

• Solid experience working with Linux-based environments (Debian, Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, etc.).

• Experience with container technologies (Docker, Podman or similar).

• Understanding of CI/CD principles and deployment pipeline design.

• Experience building systems with observability, logging and recoverability in mind.

• Experience working with backend engineers and guiding infrastructure decisions.

• Pragmatic mindset: preference for simple, maintainable solutions over complex architectures.

If You Get the Job, You Will Have To

• Design and implement a new containerized deployment platform to replace a legacy system.

• Enable deployment of Rust-based services and support future architecture evolution.

• Potentially unify deployment workflows across different technologies (PHP and Rust).

• Ensure systems are recoverable, observable and easy to debug when failures occur.

• Define deployment standards, tooling and best practices for the engineering team.

• Provide guidance and support as the system is adopted and stabilized.

• Background in fintech or other reliability-critical systems.

Our Team

We strive to create an inspiring and growth-oriented environment where everyone feels valued, heard and empowered. We promote both personal and professional development, with individualized support for your needs and goals. We aim to build a space where everyone can thrive.

What We Offer

• 100% remote work

• Payment in USD

• Paid Time Off (PTO)

• Work-from-home & training reimbursement

• English lessons

• Technical training

• Career coaching