Senior Infrastructure Engineer

First Circle is one of the fastest-growing FinTech companies in South-east Asia , providing financial services to under-served SMEs. We've already transformed access to credit for thousands of businesses, and now we're building a full-stack neobank offering multi-currency bank accounts, payments, FX, corporate credit cards, and payroll. As we enter this next phase of growth, we're hiring exceptional talent with a track record of excellence to join us in shaping the next chapter.

We are hiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join our growing fintech company as we continue to expand our operations. In this role you will help us shape our cloud strategy, security, and scalability , ensuring our systems remain robust and reliable.

With your expertise in cloud infrastructure, automation, and DevOps practices, you will be responsible for the development and maintenance of our cloud environment across multiple providers. Your focus on security and compliance will be essential as we navigate the complex regulatory landscape of financial services.

This is a unique opportunity to join a fast-growing fintech company and make a significant impact on our technology strategy. If you are passionate about cloud infrastructure, security, and innovation, and have a strong desire to work in a dynamic and challenging environment, we encourage you to apply.

Responsibilities

Adopt a Security First approach in everything you do; take ownership of Cloud Security

Build, maintain and assist with the Cloud deployments for the company (Azure; Digital Ocean)

Architect our Cloud and Network infrastructure, maintaining a good balance between current needs and future scaling requirements

Maintain and build developer tooling and CI/CD pipelines

Optimise our Cloud and Tooling spend, to ensure our funds are efficiently allocated and to maximise developer productivity

Support the engineering team with deploying and maintaining our live workloads

Collaborate with the IT and security team to manage requirements for the engineering team

Communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders on all matters related to Cloud create a smooth experience for all stakeholders

Build and maintain monitoring solution for our deployed services across the stack

Be an expert for everything Cloud, automation and DevOps best practices

Requirements

Extensive knowledge of Cloud provider (Azure Cloud Services)

Experience with Kubernetes

Expertise in Infrastructure as Code tooling (Terraform)

Expertise in Github Workflows

Good knowledge of monitoring and alerting solutions (Sentry, Datadog)

Good understanding of containerisation technologies and serverless platforms (Docker, Azure Container Apps)

Good understanding of Linux

Excellent knowledge of security best practices, with a focus on Cloud and Networking

Proactive and flexible mindset- achieve objectives independently whilst adjusting priorities according to need

Excellent communication skills with the ability to work across departments

Preferred Qualifications

Exposure to Data Engineering (Airflow, Snowflake..) and database management

Experience working in regulated environments, particularly financial institutions

Experience in incident management and setting

Passion for DevEx and building efficient tooling for Developers. Experience with measuring and reporting DORA metrics is a plus

Benefits

We don't have a fixed budget for the role. When we find the right person, we will pay them competitively vs their market rate.

Flexibility around working hours and location. The role can be worked remotely within South-east Asia or Serbia, with the option to work from one of our offices. We have offices in Hong Kong, Singapore & Belgrade where other senior engineers are based.

Macbooks, private health insurance, training budgets and more!

Opportunity for travel

Originally posted on Himalayas