Staff DevOps Engineer (Ingeniero DevOps Staff) - Hybrid

We are looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer who:

Responsibilities:

• Platform Leadership: Lead the design, adoption, and continuous improvement of the Internal Developer Platform (IDP), driving CI/CD pipeline standardization to increase deployment frequency and reduce Cycle Time.
• FinOps Strategy: Design and implement engineering FinOps strategy across AWS and other tooling, identifying cost-saving opportunities without compromising reliability.
• Container Orchestration: Operate and evolve our Kubernetes platform on Amazon EKS, supporting multi-country production workloads (MX/CO/BR).
• Event-Driven Infrastructure: Support and troubleshoot our Kafka/MSK-based event-driven architecture, used extensively across our microservices for async processing, notifications, and cross-service communication.
• Applied AI/Automation: Build and integrate MCP-based (Model Context Protocol) or other applied-AI solutions to automate log analysis and accelerate Root Cause Analysis (RCA) during incidents.
• Technical Advisory: Advise development teams on scalable, secure infrastructure design; identify and mitigate technical debt in legacy systems; support cross-team architectural reviews.
• Security & Access: Implement and maintain Least Privilege Access (IAM) models for both human and non-human identities, including peer review of policies.
• SSDLC: Strengthen the Secure Software Development Lifecycle through container standardization, secure base images, and pipeline hardening.
• Compliance & Audits: Lead technical compliance initiatives for audits, certifications (e.g., ISO 27001), local fintech regulations, and enterprise integration RFPs.
• Resilience: Design and implement multi-account, multi-region backup and recovery systems.
• Infrastructure as Code: Define and implement IaC for environment provisioning and management.
• Operations: Participate in on-call rotations, continuously improving MTTD/MTTR through effective monitoring and alerting.
• Mentorship: Provide technical support and mentorship to development teams adopting internal tooling (CLIs, container platforms, etc.).

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience:
  • 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE roles, ideally in fintech or regulated environments.
  • Strong experience with multi-account, multi-region AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM, or equivalent services).
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes on Amazon EKS (cluster operations, scaling, networking, workload troubleshooting) in production.
  • Experience with Apache Kafka / Amazon MSK in production: topic design, consumer group management, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
  • Experience leading or contributing to the build of Internal Developer Platforms (IDP) and CI/CD standardization (GitHub Actions, self-hosted runners, or similar).
  • Experience in observability and incident management (Datadog or similar) and DORA metrics (Cycle Time, CFR, MTTR).
  • Practical knowledge of cloud security: Least Privilege, SSDLC, and compliance frameworks (ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, or regional fintech regulations).
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code.
• Technical Skills: Ruby, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java; PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis; experience with our core stack of Java/Spring Boot microservices on Kubernetes (EKS) with Kafka/MSK for event-driven communication; familiarity with applying AI/LLMs to operational tasks (automated log analysis, MCPs, agents) is a plus.

Additional Skills & Pluses

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a strategic mindset.
• Quick learner, adaptable to changes and willing to shift directions as needed.
• Innate curiosity and an ability to thrive in an ambiguous and rapidly changing environment.
• Organizational skills to produce clear documentation and present to stakeholders.
• Native Spanish; intermediate-advanced English.