Senior DevOps Engineer

Crown Agents Bank is a vastly growing and regulated UK bank that connects emerging and frontier markets to the rest of the world, using FX and payments technology. We are transforming the way payments and FX move through emerging markets, reducing friction so that more money gets to those who need it. Emerging markets payments are usually challenging, expensive, unreliable and opaque. Our solutions help fix these pain points. Ultimately, we connect traditionally hard-to-reach regions to global financial infrastructure, giving access to the best prices and the fastest, most reliable settlement.

FX and cross-border payments are often complex and expensive, especially when operating in emerging markets. Crown Agents Bank (CAB) wraps its deep and trusted relationships and strength of network around innovative digital capabilities, and cross-border transaction banking solutions to enable fintech, corporates, governments, development organisations and banks to move money to, from, and across often hard-to-reach markets.

Role Purpose:

Crown Agents Bank (CAB) is hiring developers that are looking to engineer state-of-the-art financial systems. CAB is currently investing in technology growth and change driven by business growth. This is leading to new revenue streams and product capabilities including new integrations to support greater volume and changes to the platforming in AWS. This dictates an interesting and varied pipeline of work. Successful candidates will be working at the cutting edge of software and financial engineering. We look for people with excellent collaboration skills and up to date technical skills.

You’ll be part of a software engineering team within the FX and cross-border payments business working closely with architects, Business Analysts, and Product Managers. The teams provide software engineering and product development building out platforms using Java, Kotlin and Python using a range of event processing and message flow technologies. Microservices hosted in AWS provide a range of interfaces with payments direct to banks or over Swift protocols. Datastores use PostgreSQL with a React UI. New technologies, techniques and AWS services will be required as we adapt.

Role Responsibilities:

• Maintain a resilient, scalable, secure, and highly automated platform
• Ensure teams follow our platform engineering standards for code and design
• Own and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation (GitHub Actions), using modern DevOps and GitOps practices
• Build and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform and scripting, with an automation-first approach
• Support application teams with releases, troubleshooting, and day-to-day platform support
• Continuously analyse and optimize system performance and cost, provide data, insights, and recommendations to inform capacity planning
• Support security best practices through hands-on vulnerability remediation and threat mitigation
• Enhance observability, logging, and operational tooling
  
  

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering field involving software programming or systems engineering (nice to have but not required)
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps engineering

Experience Essential Criteria:

• Strong experience with design, build, and run scalable AWS infrastructure
• Apply strong DevOps practices, with a focus on automation, reliability, and continuous improvement
• Experience with container platforms and serverless technologies (Currently we use AWS Fargate and want to move Kubernetes in the future)
• Strong experience of building infrastructure as code with Terraform
• Strong experience of building and improving CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
• Support and troubleshoot Linux-based systems
• Use security tools such as SAST, DAST, and SCA
• Administer GitHub (repos, permissions, and workflows)
• Experience of writing scripts in Bash, Python, or TypeScript
• Communicate clearly and solve problems in a practical way Desirable Criteria

• Hybrid working
• Contributory personal pension plan: - Minimum: Employee 2% and Employer 7%. Employer matches contributions in 1% increments to a maximum of: Employee 5% and Employer 10%
• Life Assurance – 4 times annual salary
• Group Income Protection
• Private Medical Insurance – this may include cover for partner and or children at company cost. Cover includes Optical, Dental and Audiology
• Discretionary Bonus
• Competitive Annual Leave
• 2 Volunteering Days
• Benefit Hub