Position: AWS Cloud DevOps Engineer (Payments Domain)
Location: Hybrid- Toronto, ON
Job type: Full-time/Permanent hiring
We are seeking an experienced AWS Cloud DevOps Engineer with deep expertise in serverless architectures and the financial/payments domain. In this role, you will own the infrastructure reliability, optimization, and deployment pipelines for high-throughput, mission-critical systems. You will bridge cloud networking, serverless engineering, and containerization using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) to ensure secure, highly scalable production operations.
Core Responsibilities
- Production Troubleshooting: Perform root-cause analysis and operational monitoring across a highly technical AWS serverless and containerized ecosystem.
- Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC): Design, construct, and maintain secure infrastructure architectures leveraging AWS CDK as the primary framework (CloudFormation as secondary).
- Network & Security Management: Secure and configure advanced AWS networking layouts, including VPCs, Load Balancers, Route 53 Hosted Zones, Direct Connect, Virtual Interfaces, and VPC Flow Logs.
- CI/CD Pipeline Automation: Standardize and optimize deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions for containerized and serverless application lifecycles.
- Platform Optimization: Lead cloud migration initiatives, compute/storage cost optimization reviews, and continuous security compliance standardizations.
Required Technical Skills
- AWS Serverless Ecosystem: Extensive production experience with Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Cognito, SNS, SQS, Kinesis, and EventBridge.
- AWS Core & Networking: Deep proficiency in EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, NACLs, Security Groups, and CloudWatch.
- Infrastructure-as-Code: Strong hands-on proficiency with AWS CDK using TypeScript or Node.js.
- Containerization: Practical operational management of containerized environments utilizing Docker and Kubernetes (ECS/ECR).
- CI/CD Automation: Proven mastery configuring and maintaining workflows inside GitHub Actions.
- Domain Expertise: Prior hands-on experience navigating the strict compliance, high availability, and structural requirements of the Payments / FinTech domain.
