DevOps Engineer in an International Financial Holding – remote friendly (EMEA)

About the Company :

SmartCore is a fintech holding building infrastructure for the next generation of payments. Our solutions cover the entire financial operations cycle — from core banking and processing to cards, wallets, and anti-fraud systems.

Our core area is card acquiring , ensuring high-speed and secure payment processing. Over the past five years, we have built a reliable infrastructure across the EU and CIS , launched our own payment solutions , and continue to grow actively.

We are now looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our team.

The team includes : CTO, CEO, backend and frontend developers, ML specialist, data analyst, QA, and project manager.

Our ideal candidate has the following skills :

Must-have skills :

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) :

Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.

Ability to write, test, and maintain Terraform modules.

Understanding of CI / CD approaches for infrastructure management.

Monitoring and Logging :

Knowledge of AWS CloudWatch (alerts, dashboards, metrics, logs).

Experience integrating with external tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).

Setting up service performance monitoring, including tracing (AWS X-Ray or equivalents).

Optimization and Performance :

Ability to analyze and optimize cloud costs (AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets, Trusted Advisor).

Experience with Auto Scaling (ECS, EKS, EC2).

Experience configuring Spot and Reserved Instances for cost optimization.

Networking :

Experience with NAT Gateway, Internet Gateway, VPC Peering, and PrivateLink.

Experience configuring and optimizing API Gateway and Application Load Balancer (ALB / ELB).

Containerization and Orchestration :

Experience with Docker.

Strong understanding of EKS / ECS (including Fargate).

Skills in setting up network policies and security in Kubernetes.

CI / CD :

Knowledge of AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy.

Experience with alternatives (Jenkins, GitLab CI / CD, GitHub Actions).

Ability to build end-to-end pipelines for deploying backend and frontend applications.

Databases :

Experience with RDS (Aurora, MySQL, PostgreSQL) and DynamoDB.

Setup of read replicas, multi-AZ deployments, and backup (snapshot-based recovery).

Automation and Scripting :

Experience with Python, Bash, or other scripting languages.

Ability to automate routine tasks (e.g., via AWS Lambda or Step Functions).

Security :

Deep understanding of IAM (users, roles, policies).

Experience configuring KMS (data encryption for S3, RDS).

Skills in configuring AWS WAF and Shield for web application protection.

Configuration Management :

Experience with Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or similar tools.

Knowledge of AWS Systems Manager (Session Manager, Parameter Store, Run Command).

Soft Skills :

Incident Management :

Ability to troubleshoot production issues and conduct post-mortems.

Root cause analysis skills.

Team Collaboration :

Experience mentoring junior engineers.

Ability to collaborate with developers to optimize CI / CD pipelines.

Architectural Thinking :

Ability to design fault-tolerant and scalable solutions.

Understanding of AWS Well-Architected Framework best practices.

Language :

Fluent in Russian (B2 or higher) — required for daily communication within the team.

What we offer :

• Opportunity to gain experience in a large holding with its own infrastructure;
• Support and assistance with relocation ( EU — Spain, Barcelona );
• Freedom in decision-making;
• Scrum-like project organization;
• Full-time , flexible schedule, remote work;
• Chance to be part of a project from its early stages ;

Lots of architecture design and new development.

Feel free to apply directly via LinkedIn or by sending your CV to stanislav.pavlov[@]smartcore.pro — if you’re ready for serious architectural challenges and want to build a product you can be proud of!