DevOps Architect

We're looking for a deeply technical, hands-on DevOps Architect operating at a Staff/Principal level as an Individual Contributor. As Snapmint scales from 10x to 100x, you'll architect and build the infrastructure required to support exponential growth in scale, reliability, security and performance. You'll work across engineering, Security, Data, Product, leadership and founders to solve complex infrastructure challenges, drive technical decisions, and execute hands-on.

Responsibilities:

• Architect and evolve Snapmint's cloud infrastructure to support a 10x-100x scale journey: capacity planning, cost optimisation, and resilience built in from day one.
• Design and own CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies (blue-green, canary), and release engineering practices across all engineering teams.
• Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/Pulumi/CloudFormation) as the single source of truth for our environments.
• Own container orchestration (Kubernetes/ECS) cluster architecture, autoscaling, multi-tenancy, and cost efficiency.
• Define and implement an observability strategy for logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting so we detect and resolve issues before customers do.
• Drive security and compliance posture in infrastructure (critical for a fintech handling financial data): secrets management, network segmentation, audit trails, DR/BCP.
• Lead incident response for high-severity infra issues and drive blameless postmortems that prevent recurrence.
• Act as a technical mentor and force-multiplier for the broader engineering org on infra best practices, without direct reporting authority.
• Partner directly with engineering leadership and founders on infra roadmap, budget, and vendor decisions.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering, with a track record of owning systems independently at senior IC level.
• Proven experience scaling infrastructure for high-growth, high-transaction-volume companies (fintech/BNPL/payments experience is a strong plus).
• Deep hands-on expertise with a major cloud provider (AWS preferred), Kubernetes, Terraform, and modern CI/CD tooling.
• Strong systems thinking: you can reason about failure modes, cost curves, and scaling bottlenecks before they happen, not just after.
• Experience building observability and incident management practices from scratch.
• Comfort operating in a regulated, security-conscious environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; you'll influence without formal authority.
• A builder's mindset: you'd rather write the Terraform module yourself than write a ticket for someone else to do it.

Good to Have:

• Experience scaling infrastructure for high-growth fintech, consumer tech, or high-transaction platforms from 10x to 100x scale.
• Experience driving large-scale infrastructure transformations independently, from architecture and strategy through hands-on implementation.