MoneyHash is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to own the reliability, security, and scalability of our mission-critical payment platform. You will be responsible for building, maintaining, and scaling our cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines from the ground up, ensuring high availability and empowering development teams to deploy with confidence.
What You'll Do
- Design and build complete CI/CD pipelines from scratch using industry best practices.
- Architect and maintain highly available, scalable AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
- Manage Kubernetes clusters and containerized applications with a focus on security and performance.
- Serve as a site reliability engineer, ensuring system uptime, monitoring, and incident response.
- Implement comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions.
- Automate deployment processes and infrastructure provisioning.
- Collaborate closely with development teams to optimize application performance and deployment workflows.
- Establish and maintain security best practices across all infrastructure components.
- Design disaster recovery and backup strategies for critical payment systems.
- Optimize cloud costs while maintaining performance and reliability standards.
- Take ownership of production incidents and lead root cause analysis.
- Mentor development teams on DevOps best practices and cloud-native architectures.
- Implement GitOps workflows and manage configuration management.
- Ensure compliance with security standards and payment industry regulations like PCI DSS.
- Create and maintain comprehensive infrastructure documentation.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps or SRE roles.
- Proven experience building complete CI/CD pipelines from ground zero.
- Strong understanding of site reliability engineering principles and practices.
- Experience with incident management, on-call responsibilities, and production support.
- Hands-on experience with core AWS services (EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, etc.).
- Infrastructure as Code expertise (Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi).
- Experience with cloud cost optimization and resource management.
- Extensive experience with Kubernetes cluster management and operations.
- Proficiency with container technologies (Docker, containerd).
- Expert-level experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline).
- Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash, PowerShell).
- Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet).
- Experience with monitoring solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, New Relic).
- Log management and analysis (ELK Stack, Splunk, AWS CloudWatch).
- Understanding of security best practices in cloud environments.
- Experience with secrets management (AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault).
- Network security and VPC configuration expertise.
- Experience with SLA/SLO/SLI definition and monitoring.
- Capacity planning and performance optimization.
- Disaster recovery planning and implementation.
- Incident response and post-mortem processes.
Nice to Have
- AWS certification highly preferred (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or SysOps Administrator).
- Kubernetes certification is a huge plus (CKA, CKAD, or CKS).
- Experience with Helm charts and Kubernetes package management.
- Knowledge of service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd).
- GitOps implementation experience (ArgoCD, Flux).
- Application Performance Monitoring (APM) implementation.
- Distributed tracing and observability best practices.
- Knowledge of compliance frameworks relevant to payment systems.
- Experience in fintech, payment processing, or financial services industry.
- Multiple AWS certifications (Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional).
- Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD, CKS).
- Experience with database operations and management (PostgreSQL, Redis).
- Knowledge of payment gateway integrations and PCI compliance requirements.
- Experience with chaos engineering and reliability testing.
- Familiarity with service mesh architectures.
- Background in network engineering and security.
- Experience with multi-region and multi-cloud deployments.
Technical Stack
- Cloud: AWS
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi
- Orchestration & Containers: Kubernetes, Docker, containerd, Helm, Istio, Linkerd
- CI/CD: Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline
- Scripting: Python, Bash, PowerShell
- Configuration Management: Ansible, Chef, Puppet
- GitOps: ArgoCD, Flux
- Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, New Relic, ELK Stack, Splunk, AWS CloudWatch
- Security: AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault
- Databases: PostgreSQL, Redis
Team & Environment
You will be part of the Infrastructure team, collaborating closely with development teams to build and maintain a secure, high-performance platform.
Benefits & Compensation
- Very competitive salary + equity: Stock options
- Health insurance
- Professional development stipend
- Wellness stipend
Work Mode
This is a remote position open to candidates in the EMEA region, including Cairo, Egypt.
We are a global team that values respect, humility, flexibility, and a willingness to learn. We expect you to be empathetic, ego-free, and thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment where growth is celebrated.
