Senior DevOps Engineer – Cloud Infrastructure
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer – Cloud Infrastructure based in Brazil.
This is a high-impact senior infrastructure role within a fast-scaling, cloud-native environment operating at global scale in the fintech and digital assets space. You will be responsible for designing, building, and evolving highly available and secure cloud systems that power mission-critical financial services across multiple regions. Working in a production-driven culture, you will ensure infrastructure reliability, scalability, and compliance while collaborating closely with engineering, security, and compliance teams. The role requires strong ownership and the ability to operate in complex distributed systems environments, where performance, resilience, and security are essential. You will also contribute to architectural decisions, incident response strategies, and long-term platform evolution. This is a hands-on engineering position with significant influence over infrastructure standards and engineering practices.
Accountabilities:
- Design, build, and maintain scalable AWS cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), ensuring high availability, security, and maintainability across multi-region environments.
- Manage and optimize Kubernetes (EKS) clusters, supporting containerized workloads with strong focus on resilience, performance, and autoscaling strategies.
- Develop, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, secure, and reliable software delivery across engineering teams.
- Administer and evolve core AWS services including networking, compute, storage, IAM, and databases (RDS), ensuring robust and compliant cloud architecture.
- Implement observability solutions using tools such as Grafana and CloudWatch, including monitoring, alerting, and incident detection systems.
- Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident improvements to ensure long-term system stability and reliability.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support compliance requirements (e.g., SOC 2, GDPR) and maintain strong security posture across infrastructure.
- Contribute to architecture design, disaster recovery planning, capacity forecasting, and cost optimization initiatives.
- Maintain technical documentation, infrastructure standards, and operational runbooks to support scalable engineering practices.
- Mentor junior engineers and actively contribute to building a strong DevOps and SRE culture.
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or infrastructure-focused roles.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS in production-grade, multi-region environments.
- Advanced expertise with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices.
- Deep knowledge of Kubernetes (EKS), container orchestration, and cloud-native architectures.
- Proven experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in modern DevOps environments.
- Strong understanding of observability practices, including monitoring, logging, and alerting systems.
- Experience with GitLab or similar DevOps platforms for repository management and automation workflows.
- Solid knowledge of networking concepts, IAM, VPC design, and cloud security best practices.
- Experience working in regulated environments or industries with compliance requirements.
- Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or similar.
- Strong incident management experience with the ability to troubleshoot and resolve production issues under pressure.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, security, and product teams.
- Experience in fintech, payments, or crypto-related infrastructure environments.
- Familiarity with FinOps practices and cloud cost optimization strategies.
- Understanding of blockchain systems or digital asset platforms.
- Competitive monthly compensation in USD, aligned with LATAM market and experience level
- Fully remote work environment, with flexibility to work from anywhere in Latin America
- Full-time engagement (40 hours per week, Monday to Friday)
- Opportunity to work on large-scale, multi-region cloud infrastructure in a high-growth environment
- High autonomy and ownership over critical infrastructure and engineering decisions
- Collaborative engineering culture with strong technical leadership and knowledge sharing
- Exposure to complex, high-impact systems in fintech and digital asset infrastructure
- Independent contractor arrangement (please note this role does not include paid time off or traditional employee benefits).
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DevOps pay context
Based on 1,191 disclosed DevOps salaries on RoleSuite, the role pays a median of $142K/year, with most offers between $115K and $173K (10th–90th percentile: $101K–$210K).
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