AWS Cloud Operations / DevOps Engineer (Financial Services)

We’re looking for an AWS Cloud Ops/DevOps Engineer to design, secure, and operate a multi-account AWS environment supporting regulated financial workloads. You’ll automate infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and security controls across a stack that includes EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, CloudFront, API Gateway, CloudWatch, WAF/Shield, and more. You will building and maintaining the infrastructure that supports our 400k+ end customers and 5 product development teams as well as external suppliers - ensuring reliability, cost efficiency, and compliance in a highly regulated environment.

Core Responsibilities

Infrastructure & Platform:

• Manage Amazon EC2, ECS, and EKS clusters for containerized workloads.
• Implement Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon VPC, and Route 53 for networking and traffic routing, including secure VPC connectivity to RDS, Redis/ElastiCache, and other services.
• Operate Amazon RDS, DynamoDB, and ElastiCache for data services.
• Optimize Amazon S3 for storage and CloudFront for CDN delivery.
• Ensure uptime and availability of base infrastructure (firewalls, load balancers) and application workloads.

Automation & IaC:

• Build reproducible infrastructure using AWS CloudFormation and Terraform/OpenTofu, including reusable templates/modules to standardize App Runner and other service deployments across teams.
• Define and maintain CI/CD pipelines with AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, AWS CDK and GitHub Actions/GitLab CI, enabling consistent delivery and compliance enforcement.
• Automate tagging, encryption, and policy enforcement to meet compliance/security requirements.

Observability & Reliability:

• Configure Amazon CloudWatch (metrics, logs, alarms) and X-Ray for tracing, ensuring visibility across all workloads.
• Define and track SLIs/SLOs, uptime targets, and cost-per-user/session metrics to drive operational excellence.
• Establish alerting, runbooks, and escalation paths to ensure a stable and available service for end users.

Security & Compliance:

• Set up IAM roles, permissions, and guardrails to enforce least-privilege access.
• Enforce least-privilege with IAM Access Analyzer, KMS, and Secrets Manager.
• Implement AWS WAF, Shield, GuardDuty, Security Hub, and Config for security posture.
• Maintain audit readiness with AWS CloudTrail and compliance mapping (BaFin, DORA).

Data & Integration:

• Support API Gateway for microservices and SQS/SNS for messaging.
• Manage Database Migration Service (DMS) for data migrations.
• Knowledge of AWS End User Messaging

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, VPC, Route 53, CloudFront.
• Proficiency in CloudFormation and Terraform for IaC.
• CI/CD with CodePipeline, CodeBuild, GitHub/GitLab.
• Observability: CloudWatch, X-Ray, log aggregation, and operational metrics.
• Security: IAM, KMS, WAF, Shield, GuardDuty, Security Hub, Config, and compliance policy enforcement.
• Scripting in Python/Bash and Linux administration.

Nice to Have

• Experience with OpenSearch, Kinesis, Redshift, ElastiCache.
• Familiarity with AWS DevOps Guru, Step Functions, and Backup.
• Knowledge of BaFin cloud outsourcing and DORA compliance.

What's in it for you

• Work-Life Balance: Flexible working hours, extensive mobile office options
• Workation in European countries
• Training & Development: Participation in seminars and trainings, attendance at conferences and conventions, network of professional exchange partners
• Team Events: Regular rooftop barbecues, company outings, summer party, Christmas party, ice cream truck, as well as regular internal team events supported by dedicated team budgets
• Health: Free fruit, participation in the B2Run corporate run
• Additional Benefits: Company pension scheme, capital-forming benefits, public transport subsidy, discounted employee parking, and much more
• Dog-friendly workplace

At the Finanzen.net Group, we’re shaping the future of digital finance. Our group includes three fast-moving companies – Finanzen.net, Finanzen.net Zero, and TraderFox – each a leader in its space, yet all united by shared technical and product synergies. Together, we reach millions of users with platforms that inform, empower, and inspire smarter financial decisions.