IT infrastructure engineer

DelfinGroup is a Latvian fintech company offering accessible, straightforward, and customer-oriented financial and circular economy services. We create added value by integrating financial and circular retail services, making them easily accessible both in person and online.

We are looking for an experienced IT Infrastructure Engineer who will help maintain, improve, and develop our infrastructure while ensuring the reliable operation of business-critical systems. This is a hands-on role for someone who is comfortable taking ownership of complex infrastructure, solving problems independently, and working closely with development, architecture, security, and data teams.

Mission

Maintain, improve, and continuously develop DelfinGroup’s IT infrastructure, ensuring reliable operation of business-critical systems and strengthening the infrastructure team’s capacity and continuity.

Expected Outcomes

First 3 Months

• Develop a strong understanding of the existing infrastructure, architecture, systems, and operational processes

• Take ownership of assigned infrastructure tasks and contribute effectively to day-to-day operations

• Build a strong understanding of the company’s critical systems and infrastructure dependencies

Within 6 Months

• Independently handle most of assigned infrastructure tasks

• Identify and assess technical issues independently and propose practical solutions

• Contribute to infrastructure maintenance, troubleshooting, deployment, and system reliability

• Work effectively with Development, Architecture, Security, Data, and other technical teams

Within 12 Months

• Independently manage assigned infrastructure responsibilities end-to-end

• Proactively identify infrastructure risks, problems, and improvement opportunities

• Initiate and implement improvements to infrastructure and systems

• Contribute to ensuring the continuous operation of business-critical systems and the infrastructure team’s ability to support growing business needs

Experience & Technical Skills

We are looking for a highly experienced, hands-on infrastructure professional with:

• Solid experience in Linux administration

• Several years of experience with Kubernetes, Helm, and GitOps tools such as ArgoCD

• Experience with self-managed monitoring, alerting, and logging

• Experience maintaining and configuring Jenkins CI/CD pipelines

• Hands-on experience with GCP, Terraform, and Ansible

• Hands-on experience with self-managed PostgreSQL clusters

• Solid understanding of networking principles

• Proficiency in shell scripting, Python or Go

What You Will Work On

• Maintain and continuously improve infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code

• Install, upgrade, maintain, and test disaster recovery and backups for self-managed PostgreSQL clusters

• Oversee and optimize Kubernetes cluster operations and deployment pipelines

• Build, maintain, and troubleshoot Jenkins CI/CD pipelines and build automation

• Work closely with development teams to support feature releases and ensure technology supports business goals

• Create clear technical documentation and keep system architecture documentation up to date

Cultural Fit

You will succeed in this role if you:

• Enjoy taking ownership of complex technical environments

• Are comfortable working independently and making practical technical decisions

• Proactively identify problems rather than waiting for tasks to be assigned

• Care about stability, maintainability, and continuous infrastructure improvement

• Communicate openly and effectively with both technical colleagues and other stakeholders

• Enjoy collaborating across Development, Architecture, Security, Data, and other teams

You may struggle in this role if you:

• Prefer narrowly defined tasks with limited ownership

• Wait for detailed instructions before addressing technical problems

• Avoid working with existing or complex infrastructure

• Find cross-team communication difficult

• Prefer maintaining the status quo rather than continuously improving systems

• Strong communication is particularly important for success in this role, as the position requires extensive cooperation across technical teams.

Offered salary for this position isstarting from 4500 EUR gross

What We Offer

• The opportunity to grow and develop with DelfinGroup, a Nasdaq Riga-listed company with ambitious expansion plans

• A hands-on role with direct impact on the reliability and development of business-critical infrastructure

• The opportunity to work with Kubernetes, GCP, Terraform, Ansible, PostgreSQL, Jenkins, and modern infrastructure practices

• Close collaboration with experienced Development, Architecture, Security, and Data professionals

• A results-driven culture with trust, ownership, and the freedom to improve how we work

• Hybrid working model

• Health insurance after the probation period

• Employer contributions to the INDEXO 3rd Pension Pillar after the probation period

• Paid parking next to the office

• Regular office snacks, genuinely optional team-building activities, and professional development opportunities

Recruitment Process

• Screening call

• Technical interview

• Predictive Index assessment

• Potential practical task

• Culture Fit interview

• Reference check

We aim to provide a transparent candidate experience, giving you a clear view of the role, our technical environment, and the team so that both sides can make an informed decision.

If you have deep hands-on infrastructure experience, enjoy solving complex technical problems, and want to take real ownership of systems that are critical to the business, we would like to hear from you.