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Lisk

Senior DevOps Engineer

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Role
DevOps
Experience
Senior
Employment
Full-time
Company size
Startup
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Senior DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineer with 5+ years of experience in production AWS environments. Requires deep AWS knowledge, expertise in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/OpenTofu), strong security instincts, and CI/CD fluency. Experience in FinTech or regulated environments is a plus. Must be comfortable working remotely and have significant overlap with European business hours.

Core skills

AWSTerraformOpenTofu

Required skills

IAMcomputenetworkingmanaged databasesstoragesecrets managementobservabilitymodulesremote statedrift managementCI/CDOIDCkeyless cloud authenticationmetricslogstracesdashboardsalertingbackupsrestore drillsdisaster recoveryincident response

Optional skills

FinTechpaymentsbankingregulated/high-trust environmentSOC 2ISO 27001PCI-DSScompliance

Required languages

English

What you'll do

  • Own and evolve the cloud infrastructure behind Lisk's financial platform.
  • Keep money-handling systems secure, reliable, and changed only through reviewed, auditable, repeatable processes.
  • Raise the bar continuously and set the standard for how we run production at a fintech level.
  • Drive the platform roadmap, prioritizing and shipping infrastructure improvements across security, reliability, and observability.
  • Extend and harden the Terraform/OpenTofu codebase that manages our AWS infrastructure across multiple isolated environments.
  • Operate and improve highly available services on AWS with meaningful SLOs, alerting, and on-call discipline.
  • Drive least-privilege access, secrets management, network segmentation, encryption in transit and at rest, and audit logging.
  • Treat every access grant as a reviewed change.
  • Maintain and improve CI/CD with keyless, short-lived cloud credentials.
  • Own metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and actionable alerting; reduce noise and mean time to detect.
  • Manage backups, restore drills, disaster recovery, and incident response.
  • Keep AWS spend visible and efficient without compromising reliability or security.
  • Review infrastructure PRs, write runbooks, and pair with product engineers.
  • Share on-call duties.
  • Review each other's infrastructure changes.
  • Jointly own the platform roadmap.

What they require

  • 5+ years in DevOps / SRE / SysOps / Platform Engineering, with significant ownership of production AWS environments.
  • Deep, hands-on AWS. Real depth across IAM, compute, networking, managed databases, storage, secrets, and observability, not just "I've used the console."
  • Expert in Infrastructure as Code, specifically Terraform or OpenTofu, covering modules, remote state, drift management, and managing multiple isolated environments from one codebase.
  • Strong security instincts. You design least-privilege by default, think in blast radius, and have managed secrets and credentials for systems that matter. You can explain why a permission exists.
  • CI/CD fluency, ideally GitHub Actions, including OIDC / keyless cloud authentication.
  • Production operations maturity. Observability, alerting, incident response, backups, and disaster recovery, all as lived experience.
  • A bias for shipping. You deliver, you don't just advise, bringing a track record of actually shipping hardening, migration, and reliability work, not only designing it.
  • Self-sufficient in a lean team. Comfortable owning large areas independently on a small platform team, without needing a big platform org around you to be effective.
  • Remote-first working style. Clear written communication, self-direction, and comfort owning outcomes across time zones
  • Ability to work with significant overlap (at least 4–6 hours) with European business hours to collaborate effectively with the team.
  • Experience in FinTech, payments, banking, or another regulated/high-trust environment (SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, or similar compliance exposure).
  • Web3 / crypto infrastructure experience running nodes, managing keys and HSMs, and securing systems that touch on-chain assets.
  • Threat modeling, security audits, or formal incident-response leadership.
  • Database operations depth (Postgres tuning, zero-downtime migrations).
  • Kubernetes, service mesh, or large-scale container orchestration.
  • Cost-optimization wins you can point to.
  • Network architecture at scale: multi-account/Transit Gateway or VPC peering, private egress design, or hardening east-west traffic between services.
  • Exposure to a second cloud (GCP/Azure) or genuine multi-cloud networking, useful as a signal of provider-agnostic IaC and network design, even though our stack is AWS-first today.

Benefits

  • Flexible work schedule so you can balance life and work on your terms
  • 25 days off per year
  • You'll be building at the frontier of business finance.
  • You'll own your craft from the ground up and help define how businesses interact with money.
  • If you want massive upside and the chance to help create a category that reshapes global finance, this is the place to be.

Lisk is building a new financial platform for businesses, bringing crypto infrastructure into a modern, simple workspace across web and mobile.

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