Senior DevOps Engineer, Equals
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Payments, cards, and expenses, made simple
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Payments, cards, and expenses, made simple
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make money management as simple as possible for their customers.
Role
Who you are
- Collaborative team player who fits into an existing engineering team - shares knowledge, asks questions, and helps peers
- Takes ownership for services they touch; pragmatic about shipping improvements incrementally
- Comfortable learning on the job and seeking mentorship when needed
- Communicates clearly and respectfully during incidents and in day-to-day work
- Security- and reliability-minded: prefers small, testable changes that reduce risk
- 4-8 years working with AWS services, ideally including Lambda, Fargate (or ECS), Aurora (or RDS), VPC and IAM
- Hands-on experience with Terraform and/or Serverless Framework for infrastructure as code
- Practical experience building CI/CD pipelines - GitHub Actions plus familiarity with CodeBuild/CodeDeploy or equivalents
- Good debugging and scripting skills (Bash, Python, or similar) and comfort with containers/Docker
- Familiarity with monitoring/observability tools (CloudWatch, X-Ray, or comparable) and writing meaningful alerts
- Solid understanding of networking basics (subnets, security groups, routing, NAT) and security principles
- Experience with incident response, postmortems and maintaining runbooks
- Nice to have: AWS certifications (eg. AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or Solutions Architect) and experience with cost optimisation and database ops for Aurora
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join and existing team who will be hands-on running and improving our AWS platform, supporting engineering teams, and helping make our systems more secure and reliable
- You’ll work primarily with Lambda, Fargate, Aurora, VPC and Security Hub, maintain IaC (Terraform, Serverless), and support CI/CD (GitHub Actions, CodeBuild/CodeDeploy). This is a practical, collaborative role — you’ll be solving day-to-day operational problems while helping plan and deliver longer-term improvements
- Operate and troubleshoot production and staging systems in AWS (Lambda, Fargate, Aurora, VPC)
- Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and AWS CodeBuild/CodeDeploy
- Author and update Terraform and Serverless configs; review pull requests for infrastructure changes
- Respond to incidents, follow runbooks, participate in root-cause analysis and implement fixes
- Work with engineers to onboard services to the platform and provide practical guidance on deployments, observability and cost
- Implement security best practices: IAM hygiene, Security Hub findings, secrets management and least-privilege changes
- Build and tune monitoring, alerts, logging and tracing to reduce noise and catch real issues early
- Automate repetitive tasks (backups, health checks, tidyups) and keep runbooks and docs current
Our take
Born in 2005 out of a desire to use technology to give customers a better deal, Equals' mission is to make money simple for everyone. Founded under the name "FairFX", Equals has been helping customers move and manage their money for years. The company consists of three brands, all working together to provide financial solutions for personal and business customers alike.
Having started as a foreign exchange platform, Equals is evolving into a broader money management platform, moving from originally international payments and travel money towards integrated money management solutions for consumers and businesses. The company covers a number of elements: travel, business expenses, personal finance, and payroll.
Equals has built great customer loyalty, strengthening its position in launching new products and helping it become a dominant force in the payments market. Looking to expand its financial services options for customers and secure its future, Equals agreed to an acquisition by embedded finance platform Railsr, which will be completed in the first half of 2025.
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Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Contributory pension
- Life assurance
- Health insurance through BUPA
- Our Employee Assistance Programme offers a 24/7 confidential advice line for health, bereavement and other areas of support
- 25 days holiday per year + your birthday off
- We are members of the cycle to work scheme
- We offer Season Ticket Loans
- Free onsite Nuffield Health gym & pool (London) and discounted gym membership elsewhere
- Interbank currency rates on travel money and international transfers
- Opportunities for progression, development and learning new skills
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Leadership
Ian Strafford-Taylor
(CEO)Before launching Equals, Ian was one of the founders of FairFX and was appointed a Director in 2007, Ian has also held a number of senior banking roles at Morgan Stanley and UBS.
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