You'll be one of our first platform engineers building the foundation for our fintech engineering organization as we scale from startup to enterprise-grade operations.
Build & Automate: Design self-service infrastructure using AWS (ECS, RDS, S3, Lambda, IAM) and Pulumi/TypeScript, create automation that eliminates manual work, build and optimize CI/CD pipelines for fast, safe deployments.
Enable & Scale: Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability systems, build documentation and runbooks that empower teams to self-serve, work with product teams to understand friction points.
Improve & Secure: Balance fintech compliance requirements with developer experience, participate in incident response and postmortems, optimize system performance, scalability, and cost, implement security controls that satisfy regulatory requirements.
Collaborate: Treat platform as product, gather feedback, measure adoption, drive improvements, partner with engineers and stakeholders to set technical strategy, explain technical decisions clearly to non-technical audiences.
Requirements
5+ years infrastructure, platform, or DevOps engineering
Production AWS (EC2, ECS/Fargate, RDS, S3, Lambda, VPC, IAM)
Infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi or Terraform- we use Pulumi/TypeScript)
CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar)
Containers (Docker, ECS, or Kubernetes)
Monitoring tools (Datadog, Prometheus, CloudWatch, or similar)
Strong coding skills in Ruby, Python, Go, TypeScript, or similar
Track record building platforms that teams actually adopted.
Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision coverage - Kikoff covers the full cost of health insurance for the employee!
Visa sponsorship available: Kikoff is willing to provide sponsorship for H1-B visas and U.S. green cards for exceptional talent.
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