Infrastructure Engineer

Your Mission

Your mission is to build and scale the infrastructure that powers fast, reliable and secure global payments ’ll help create resilient systems, developer platforms and cloud foundations that enable engineering teams to ship confidently at high velocity.

• Build and improve the cloud infrastructure powering NALA and Rafiki, ensuring high availability, scalability and security across our systems.
• Improve developer experience through automation, self‑serve tooling and infrastructure‑as‑code practices that increase engineering velocity.
• Own and evolve our observability, incident response and reliability practices to minimise downtime and improve system performance.
• Partner closely with product and engineering teams to support new services, migrations and platform improvements across the business.
• Strengthen our security posture by implementing best practices across networking, access controls, secrets management and production environments.
• Continuously improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows to enable safe, fast and reliable releases.

• Experience building and operating production infrastructure on AWS (preferably), GCP or similar cloud platforms.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
• Experience managing containerised workloads using ECS and Docker in production environments.
• Strong hands‑on experience operating and scaling infrastructure components such as Kafka, Redis and managed relational databases like RDS.
• Strong understanding of networking, security, observability and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Experience improving CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation in fast‑moving engineering teams.
• Comfortable debugging production issues and participating in incident response in high‑availability environments.
• Clear communication skills and the ability to work closely with software engineers across multiple teams.

• Experience working in fintech, payments or other regulated environments.
• Experience building internal developer platforms or self‑serve infrastructure tooling.
• Experience supporting SOC2, ISO
  27001 or similar compliance initiatives.

• Successfully onboarded into NALA’s infrastructure stack, deployment workflows and engineering processes.
• Delivered meaningful improvements to infrastructure reliability, deployment speed or observability tooling.
• Built strong working relationships with engineering teams and actively supported platform and production needs.

• Reduced operational bottlenecks through automation and infrastructure improvements that measurably improve developer velocity.
• Improved platform reliability, monitoring coverage and incident response processes across critical systems.
• Played a key role in scaling infrastructure to support increasing transaction volumes and product expansion.

• 27 Days Off Plus UK Bank Holidays
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  Take the time to decompress. Working at a startup is hard!
• Birthday Leave
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  Celebrate your special day with a bonus day off to take off in that month.
• Enhanced Parental Leave
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  We offer 16 weeks of full pay for the primary caregiver and 4 weeks of full pay for the secondary caregiver (After a 6-month probationary period)
• Enhanced Pension
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  Salary sacrifice pension scheme via Penfold giving you flexibility and control on how you save for your future!
• Global Workspace
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  Get access to WeWork locations worldwide.
• Learning Budget
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  Fuel your growth with $1000 annually for learning and development.
• Sarabi
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  Themed snacks and Friday lunch focused on building great working relationships with the team.
• Monthly Socials
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  Join fun social events every month for great times.
• Free Coffee
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  Enjoy barista-style coffee at your fingertips.