Senior DevOps & Back-end Engineer
Essex Junction, Chittenden County, Vermont, 05452, USA
Listed on 2026-06-02
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IT/Tech
Cloud Computing, Systems Engineer, Data Engineer
Senior Dev Ops & Back-end Engineer – Strategy & Corporate Finance
Contract Length - 12 months (with potential extension)
Rate - Flexible – Dependent on Experience (DOE)
About the RoleWe are working with a world-leading strategy and corporate finance organisation that builds advanced financial intelligence and analytics platforms used by senior decision-makers globally.
You will join a high-impact engineering and analytics team responsible for designing, scaling, and operating cloud-native systems that process large volumes of complex data. The environment is fast-paced, technically strong, and encourages ownership, autonomy, and engineering excellence
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This role offers a strong balance of Dev Ops leadership (≈80%) combined with hands-on backend development (≈20%).
Key Responsibilities- Design, build, and maintain AWS-based cloud infrastructure supporting data-intensive platforms
- Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters (EKS preferred) for microservice orchestration
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using modern Dev Ops best practices
- Configure, manage, and optimize databases and messaging systems including:
Mongo
DB Kafka - Ensure high standards around:
System reliability and performance Disaster recovery and resilience - Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting to ensure platform stability
- Contribute to backend development using Scala (preferred) and Python
- Build and maintain APIs, microservices, and data processing pipelines
- Work closely with other engineers to ensure clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
- Support product, analytics, and business teams by delivering scalable technical solutions
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS
, Terraform
, and Kubernetes - Solid experience with Docker and Linux-based systems
- Experience managing Postgre
SQL, Mongo
DB, and Kafka - CI/CD experience (Git Hub Actions preferred)
- Strong understanding of monitoring, logging, and system observability
- Experience developing and debugging Scala/JVM-based applications and Python services
- Good understanding of: RESTful APIs, Microservices architecture, Data-intensive backend systems
- Work with a globally recognised strategy & finance organisation
- High ownership role with real technical impact
- Strong mix of Dev Ops leadership and backend engineering
- Fully remote contract with competitive rates
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