Lead DevOps Engineer (AWS)

London – Hybrid, 1 day per week in the office

We are looking for a Lead DevOps Engineerto join the team as we continue to develop new products and features for our clients. You will be responsible for managing the team, continuing our AWS migration and driving platform strategy across the business.

What you’ll be working on:

• Being the go-to expert for everything AWS-related, owning our AWS platform and staying up to date with new AWS features

• Support the migration of remaining elements to AWS

• Development of infrastructure through reusable code with automated tooling and tests, while being an expert on the toolset

• Use of metrics and monitoring information to ensure performance and reliability

• Understand the complexities of working with multi-tier applications, capacity testing and scaling of distributed systems

• Delivery of new features and tooling for both business and technical stakeholders

• Collaboration with technical teams to help define a platform for the future

• Responsible for managing and overseeing the DevOps team, ensuring smooth delivery of infrastructure and deployment processes

About the team:

• You will join a technical team of approximately 40 technologists with a key purpose of continuously and reliably collecting large amounts of financial data describing cross-border payments, then processing the data, verifying its quality and serving it to our users so that they can make informed business decisions

• The DevOps team consists of a core team with three Engineers, supporting the wider business

• We follow Agile methodologies and collaborate closely with product and other technical teams, so you will be interacting with various stakeholders across the business in addition to your immediate team

You should apply if you have:

• Strong AWS experience (including going through an AWS migration process)

• A passion for automation and continuous improvement

• You understand how applications and services run in real-world production environments, keeping them running smoothly

• You know how to configure the infrastructure to cope with demand while still delivering maximum resilience

• Experience utilising AI to increase productivity and efficiency across the team

• Experience of and desire to do people management

• A love for learning and improving your skills

It’d be great (but not essential) if you also have experience with:

• Kubernetes

• Terraform

• Good monitoring and alerting/service management experience

Tech Stack:

• AWS, Terragrunt, Terraform, EKS, Helm, ArgoCD, Docker, Gitlab SaaS, Gitlab CI, Victoria Metrics (Prometheus compatible), Vault, Clickhouse, PostgreSQL, MariaDB/MySQL, MongoDB, KeyCloak, ELK logging, Grafana

• Legacy (migrating from): Kubernetes (Bare Metal), Ceph, Jenkins, Gitlab On-Premises

AI Usage Disclaimer:

At FXC Intelligence, we are enthusiastic about the use of AI tools and value candidates with experience or interest in AI technologies. However, we kindly ask that candidates refrain from using AI tools during interviews or for technical tasks unless explicitly instructed by us. This is because we want to understand your thought process and approach to tasks. If AI assistance is used in tasks or interviews where it was not permitted and is detected, the submission may be discounted.

About us:

FXC Intelligence is a leading provider of cross-border payments data and intelligence, providing some of the world's biggest companies, central banks and non-governmental organisations with the strategic insights, expertise and awareness to effectively compete in their chosen markets. By joining us, you will be diving into a world of data-driven exploration and innovation, revolutionising financial insights through cutting-edge technologies, machine learning and predictive analytics.

Your contributions will shape the future of cross-border finance, helping clients to uncover better paths to growth and profitability, as well as being a trusted reference and source for many of the leading international publications.

We are proud to produce industry-changing data and intelligence, aided by our company values of being customer-focused, taking ownership, knowledge, communication and leadership.

We’re an innovative company that strives to look after its team, and we take pride in providing a positive company culture. Feel free to check out our blog, Instagram, and Glassdoor pages to learn more about our culture and hear directly from our team about what it's really like to work with us!

What’s in it for you?

• 25 days holiday per annum (plus bank holidays), increasing to 26 days after 2 years of service

• Healthcare for you and your family with AXA

• Annual bonus/option scheme

• Pension scheme

• Enhanced maternity and paternity policy

• After four years of employment, you are entitled to a fully paid6-week sabbatical

• After one year of employment, you can work abroad for up to three months of the year, with approval from your manager

• Quarterly external one-to-one coaching sessions

• £1,000 annual learning budget for courses, books and conferences

• Annual salary reviews with your manager

• A chance to work with a vibrant, friendly team in a relaxed but committed culture

• Monthly London-based socials paid for by the company, from mini golf to cooking challenges to escape rooms!

• We operate in a hybrid working environment, trusting employees to work where they work best, with the expectation that you come into our London Liverpool Street office each month for company update meetings and for ad-hoc team sessions

• The opportunity to join our LGBTQIA+ and Women in Fintech employee networks

• We have recently been recognised as one of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work in 2025! Read our blog here on “Five reasons FXC Intelligence was chosen as a Sunday Times Best Place to Work in 2025!

At FXC Intelligence, we believe in embracing diversity in all forms and fostering an inclusive environment. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran status, neurodiversity status or disability status.