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:

Convenient medical support with company doctor  

Private Healthcare plan post probation 

Free parking (first come first serve basis) 

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 and citizenship ceremony.  

Complimentary eye test. 

Discounted gym membership. 

Study and Exam leave to further support career and educational growth.  

Company sponsored further education through top up on the Get Qualified Scheme.  

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