At Finastra, we’re a global leader in financial services software, dedicated to expanding access to financial services and shaping what’s next for the industry. Our technology powers mission‑critical solutions across Lending, Payments and Universal Banking, supporting over 7,000 customers, including 80% of the world’s top 50 banks, in more than 110 countries.
Senior DevOps Engineer – AI Center of Excellence (AICoE)
What will you contribute?
As part of Finastra’s AI Center of Excellence (AICoE), you will play a critical role in designing, building, and operating the cloud-native platform that powers our AI and product engineering initiatives.
This role goes beyond traditional DevOps. We are looking for a strong platform engineer with deep architectural understanding, capable of designing scalable, secure, and observable systems across environments. You will work closely with architects, AI engineers, and product teams to enable reliable and efficient delivery of modern applications and agentic AI platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Platform & Infrastructure Engineering
- Design and operate cloud-native platforms across dev, test, and production environments
- Define and implement secure-by-design architectures including networking, identity, and access
- Build reusable infrastructure patterns and platform abstractions for engineering teams
- Cloud Networking & Security (Core Expectation)
- Design and implement load balancing strategies, ingress/egress controls, and traffic routing
- Architect and manage private connectivity (Private Endpoints, VNet/VPC, Service Endpoints)
- Implement secure connectivity patterns (VPN, ExpressRoute, hybrid networking)
- Infrastructure as Code & Automation
- Build and maintain infrastructure using Terraform, Bicep, or equivalent
- Establish standardized, modular, reusable IaC patterns (not one-off scripts)
- Automate environment provisioning and configuration end-to-end
- CI/CD & DevSecOps
- Design and manage scalable CI/CD pipelines (build, test, deploy, rollback)
- Integrate security, compliance, and quality gates into pipelines
- Enable progressive delivery models (blue-green, canary, feature flags)
- Reliability, Observability & Performance
- Define SLOs/SLIs, monitoring, alerting, and incident management practices
- Implement observability using OpenTelemetry, logging, metrics, and tracing
- Drive resiliency patterns (failover, autoscaling, chaos testing)
- Architecture & Engineering Excellence
- Identify and eliminate DevOps and infrastructure anti-patterns
- Promote best practices in scalability, reliability, and cost optimization (FinOps)
- Collaborate with architects on reference architectures and platform standards
Required Skills & Experience
- Experience: 6–10+ years in DevOps / Platform Engineering / Cloud Engineering
Core Technical Skills
- Strong experience with Azure (Must and Should ), AWS, or GCP
- Deep understanding of:
- Load balancers, API gateways, WAF
- Private endpoints, VNet/VPC design, subnetting, routing
- Identity & access models (RBAC, IAM)
- Hands-on expertise in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, Pulumi, etc.)
- Strong experience with CI/CD platforms (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
Platform & Cloud Engineering
- Experience with Kubernetes / container platforms (AKS/EKS/GKE) or VM-based architectures where appropriate
- Strong understanding of multi-environment and landing zone design
- Knowledge of cloud security and governance patterns
Scripting & Automation
- Proficiency in at least one: Python, Bash, PowerShell
- Ability to build automation beyond basic scripting (tooling + orchestration mindset)
Observability & Reliability
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, OpenTelemetry)
- Understanding of SRE principles (incident management, SLOs, SLIs)
We are proud to offer a range of incentives to our employees worldwide. These benefits are available to everyone, regardless of grade, and reflect the values we stand for:
Flexibility: Enjoy unlimited vacation, subject to local regulations and business priorities. Benefit from hybrid working arrangements and inclusive policies such as paid time off for voting, bereavement, and sick leave.
Well‑being: Access confidential one‑to‑one support through our Employee Assistance Program, connect with our network of Wellbeing Champions and Gather Groups, and take part in monthly events and initiatives designed to help you thrive—inside and outside of work.
Health & Financial Security: Medical, life and disability insurance, retirement plans, lifestyle, and other benefits.*
Sustainability: Paid time off for volunteering and donation‑matching opportunities to support causes that matter to you.
Inclusion: Get involved in our inclusion communities, such as Count Me In, Culture@Finastra, Proud@Finastra, Disabilities@Finastra, and Women@Finastra—open to everyone who wants to participate and contribute.
Career Development: Access online learning and accredited courses through our Skills & Career Navigator tool.
Recognition: Take part in our global recognition program, Finastra Celebrates, and share your voice through regular employee surveys that help shape our culture and ways of working.
*Specific benefits may vary by location.
At Finastra, each individual is unique—bringing their own ideas, perspectives, cultural backgrounds, and experiences. We learn from one another, value what makes us different, and create an environment where everyone feels included, supported, and able to be their authentic selves.
Be unique. Be exceptional. Help us make a difference at Finastra.
Skills Required
- 6-10+ years in DevOps / Platform Engineering / Cloud Engineering
- Strong experience with Azure
- Experience with AWS or GCP
- Design and implement load balancers, API gateways, WAF
- Design private endpoints, VNet/VPC, subnetting, and routing
- Identity and access models (RBAC, IAM)
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, Pulumi)
- CI/CD platforms (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
- Kubernetes / container platforms (AKS, EKS, GKE) or VM-based architectures
- Scripting and automation (Python, Bash, PowerShell)
- Monitoring and observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, OpenTelemetry)
- SRE principles including SLOs/SLIs, incident management, reliability engineering
- Design secure-by-design architectures and secure connectivity patterns (VPN, ExpressRoute, hybrid networking)
- Experience with multi-environment and landing zone design and FinOps/cost optimization
Finastra Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Finastra and has not been reviewed or approved by Finastra.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave is positioned as flexible/“unlimited” in many roles, which can support work-life balance when team norms allow it. Hybrid/flexible working is also framed as a core part of the overall rewards experience.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is described as relatively generous in the US, with multiple references to roughly three months (or around 12 weeks) fully paid and equal leave for mothers and fathers. This is repeatedly highlighted as a meaningful component of the benefits package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing support is emphasized through offerings like an Employee Assistance Program and TaskHuman coaching, alongside volunteering time off and employee networks. These programs broaden total rewards beyond cash compensation.
Finastra Insights
What We Do
At Finastra our purpose is to unlock the power of finance for everyone & redefine finance for good. We’re the orchestrator of open finance; building and delivering innovative, next-generation technology on our open Fusion software architecture and cloud ecosystem. We’re one of the world’s largest FinTechs, working with over 9,000 customers including 90 of the top 100 banks globally. We’re creating a pioneering open platform that’s disrupting the financial industry, changing how financial software is developed and used. We believe in collaboration for innovation, to unlock the potential of people, businesses and communities. We have an unmatched portfolio of financial software and deliver mission critical solutions for financial institutions of all sizes, on premises or in the cloud. Our open architecture and platform approach embrace a wide ecosystem of partners and co innovators. Together we're leading the way in which applications are written, deployed and consumed in the world of financial services. Our people mission is to be the most loved and inclusive fintech company in the world; a mission we take seriously. DE&I factors into everything we do and every decision we make as a business. When you join Finastra, you open up a world of possibilities. With us, you can supercharge financial institutions, big tech and fintech while also building a more inclusive finance industry. We believe our people thrive when given the opportunity to be their authentic selves and we trust our people to work how, when and where they want; this is OPENworking. Our 2+ policy provides the perfect mix of focused work at home, coupled with the meaningful connection that comes from in person collaboration, coaching and community. We're rolling out a new programme where our people take as much leave as they need; we do not count vacation days and we trust our people to work in a way that suits them, when it suits them. Come join the future of Fintech, and make your world. OPEN.
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