Senior DevOps Engineer, Railsr
Office located in City of London
Banking-as-a-Service platform
Open for applications
Banking-as-a-Service platform
101-200 employees
Open for applications
Office located in City of London
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make finance an amazing experience everywhere in the world.
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
- 2–5 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-level 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
- You'll 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
Salary benchmarks
Our take
As the digital economy has grown, so too has the market for 'Banking-as-a-Service' - the process of ensuring the overall execution of financial services over the web. As businesses expand online, they have opportunities to be able to build and sell various financial services or add fintech features to their existing products. Railsr (formerly Railsbank) facilitates companies doing this easily, where it would previously have been a huge undertaking.
Essentially, Railsr is making financial services more inclusive. Previously, the complexities of legacy technology, managing global compliance and ancient bank processes have created a slow, complex and costly experience for customers. Now, through Railsr's Open Banking Platform and APIs, financial innovators have the means of creating the financial services, products and experiences their clients want.
In 2022, shortly after becoming Railsr, the company benefitted from the embedded finance boom and raised a large funding round to support its ongoing expansion efforts. Early in 2023, however, the company had to undertake an emergency sale and shift of control - though it seems to have remained positive throughout, citing the sale as a "pivotal moment" that will enable it to "rebuild momentum, drive change and return Railsr to growth."
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Oct 2023
$24m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Oct 2022
$26m
SERIES C
Total funding: $171.3m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
Leadership
Philippe Morel
(CEO, not founder)Was the CEO of SETL for four years. Previously Principal Investment Leader (EMEA) at Boston Consulting Group.
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