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Modulr is a payments automation platform processing over 200 million transactions and £180 billion in annual payment value. The company serves 6,000+ businesses from SMEs to enterprises, automating payroll, supplier payments, spend management, and payment collection through a single platform integrated with accounting and payroll systems. Modulr is a regulated payments provider backed by PayPal, FIS, General Atlantic, and other leading investors, with 400+ employees across London, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Mumbai, and Pune.
You will lead the design, delivery, and operation of secure, scalable, and highly available cloud infrastructure. This role is 60% hands-on engineering and 40% team leadership. You will remain actively involved in architecture, automation, implementation, troubleshooting, and operational support while mentoring engineers, setting technical standards, and coordinating team delivery.
Hands-on responsibilities include: designing and implementing secure, scalable, resilient cloud and hybrid environments primarily on AWS; owning and evolving AWS architecture across networking, compute, storage, identity, security, containers, and managed services; building and maintaining automated CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, Argo CD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar tools; implementing GitOps practices and automating application deployment, configuration, testing, and release processes; provisioning and managing infrastructure using Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation; designing, deploying, and operating containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes (preferably Amazon EKS); improving Kubernetes resilience through effective workload configuration, autoscaling, resource management, health checks, ingress, secrets management, and disaster-recovery practices; developing automation and operational tooling using Python, Bash, or PowerShell; implementing comprehensive observability using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, centralized logging, distributed tracing, alerting, and service-level indicators; embedding security throughout the software delivery lifecycle; troubleshooting complex infrastructure, deployment, performance, and production reliability issues; participating in incident response, root-cause analysis, capacity planning, and continuous service improvement; and identifying opportunities to improve reliability, security, developer productivity, performance, and cloud cost efficiency.
Leadership responsibilities include: leading, mentoring, and developing DevOps, cloud, and platform engineers through coaching, technical guidance, and regular feedback; establishing and maintaining engineering standards for cloud architecture, automation, CI/CD, security, reliability, and operational readiness; planning and prioritizing team work in partnership with engineering, product, security, and business stakeholders; providing technical direction while balancing delivery timelines, operational risk, scalability, security, and cost; reviewing architectural proposals, infrastructure code, automation, and operational processes; promoting a culture of ownership, collaboration, documentation, continuous improvement, and blameless learning; coordinating incident response and ensuring corrective actions are documented, prioritized, and completed; supporting recruitment, onboarding, performance management, career development, and capability planning; communicating technical risks, dependencies, progress, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders; and championing DevSecOps, Site Reliability Engineering, and cloud governance practices across the organization.
REQUIREMENTS:
Essential:
- At least 8+ years of experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, platform engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or a related field
- Previous experience leading, mentoring, or managing engineers
- Strong, recent, hands-on expertise in AWS, including production cloud architecture and operations
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure and/or GCP and understanding of multi-cloud concepts
- Strong experience with CI/CD platforms, preferably GitLab CI, plus familiarity with Argo CD, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions
- Advanced experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform or AWS CloudFormation
- Strong practical experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Amazon EKS in production environments
- Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language, such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell
- Experience implementing monitoring, logging, alerting, and tracing using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch, or equivalent platforms
- Strong understanding of cloud networking, DNS, load balancing, identity and access management, secrets management, and security controls
- Experience designing highly available systems and implementing backup, disaster-recovery, and business-continuity strategies
- Experience supporting ISO 27001 and PCI DSS compliance audits, with hands-on expertise in implementing CIS Benchmarks and supporting penetration testing and remediation activities
- Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, documentation, stakeholder-management, and communication skills
Desired:
- AWS certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or Security - Specialty
- Kubernetes certification such as CKA, CKAD, or CKS
- Experience operating hybrid or multi-cloud environments
- Experience with service meshes, policy-as-code, FinOps, or cloud cost-optimization practices
- Familiarity with SRE practices, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident management, and post-incident reviews
- Experience supporting regulated, security-sensitive, or high-availability environments
