Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer

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Who are we?
At Finastra, we are a dynamic global provider of open finance software solutions, dedicated to expanding access to financial services. Our innovative applications span Lending, Payments, Treasury and Capital Markets, and Universal Banking. Proudly serving over 8,000 customers, including 45 of the world's top 50 banks, we aim to boost financial inclusion for all. Join us and be part of a vibrant company that embraces diverse perspectives, and is committed to doing well by doing good.

Role Overview
Finastra is seeking a seasoned, levelheaded Full Stack Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our Cloud Delivery & Service Management team. You'll be part of a global technology organization responsible for delivering highly reliable, secure, and modernized cloud services for our US mid-markets region, hosted in Microsoft Azure.
This role demands deep expertise across Azure, Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub Actions, Kubernetes, Terraform, and scripting, with a strong understanding of banking and digital application workflows. You'll collaborate with top-tier developers, architects, and support engineers to drive service reliability, automation, and modernization across our cloud platforms.
Job Accountabilities:
As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will be part of the Global Technology organization and work closely other product engineers, architects and developers to build highly reliable products. The Cloud Delivery & Service Management Group manage the Microsoft Azure Cloud environment for US mid markets region and owns the uptime of respective products in the region. We will rely on your experience to help us build out the automated, shining beacon of best-practice infrastructure that we need, and your role will be supported by the teams of top-notch developers, support engineers and the entire Finastra organization to deliver the best of breed products and services to our clients.

Key Responsibilities    Service Reliability
Ensure  99.99% uptime  across all critical cloud services.

Strengthen  disaster recovery (DR)  posture to minimize service disruption.

Implement  proactive incident prevention  and rapid recovery strategies.

Enhance system resilience through  automation  and architectural improvements.

Security & Compliance
Maintain infrastructure compliance within defined  risk thresholds .

Minimize vulnerabilities and enforce  secure coding and deployment practices .

Strengthen  Privileged Access Management (PAM)  and support  audit readiness  (SOC, FBA, NACHA, RCSA).

Modernization & Automation
Reduce  technical debt  and contribute to modernization roadmaps.

Adopt and apply  modern architectures  and  AI-driven automation .

Continuously upskill to stay aligned with evolving tech and customer needs.

Dev Ops & Cloud-Ops
Manage CI/CD pipelines using Azure Dev Ops and Git Hub Actions.

Architect and maintain infrastructure using Terraform and Azure best practices.

Operate and optimize Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads.

Drive build and release engineering excellence across environments.

App Ops & Workflow Optimization
Collaborate with application teams to ensure seamless deployment and monitoring.

Understand and optimize banking and digital application workflows.

Implement observability and telemetry solutions for business-critical apps.

Required Skills & Experience   As technologies move around us, we need a team of people who grow and adapt to new best practices. We look for people with:
Cloud Expertise:  Azure Cloud Architecture, Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub Actions

Infrastructure as Code:  Terraform, ARM templates

Containerization:  Kubernetes, Helm, Docker

Configuration Management:  Puppet, Ansible

Scripting:  Power Shell, Bash, Python (strong acumen required)

OS Administration:  Linux (Advanced), Windows (Basic/Intermediate)

Monitoring & Observability:  Prometheus, New Relic, Grafana, Azure Monitor, App Insights

Service Operations:  Incident Management, On-call App Ops, Application Uptime

Security & Compliance:  Jump Cloud, PAM, vulnerability management, audit support

Domain Knowledge:  Banking workflows, digital application lifecycle

Soft Skills:

Problem-solving, collaboration, communication, ownership mindset

At least 6+ years  of computing experience, knowledge and excitement about the terrain and  2+ years of direct Azure experience

A solid grasp of the programming tools (Vibe coding) at their disposal, and knowledge of the time and place to use each one.

Strong security/audit awareness.

Vulnerability and patch management

Performance Testing:
Load Runner (Open Text), Gatling (good to have).

We are proud to offer a range of incentives to our employees worldwide. These benefits are available to everyone, regardless of grade, and reflect the values we uphold:

· Flexibility:
Enjoy unlimited vacation, based on your location and business priorities. Hybrid…