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Clara is the leading spend management platform in Latin America, serving 40,000+ businesses with corporate cards, bill pay, financing, and B2B payments. The company is ~400 people, backed by top-tier VCs including Kaszek, Coatue, DST Global, and Goldman Sachs, and was named the fastest-growing company in Latin America by the Financial Times in 2025.
We are seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to lead platform infrastructure and drive technical excellence across our multi-country operations (Mexico, Colombia, Brazil). This is a high-impact individual contributor role with significant technical leadership scope.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the design, adoption, and continuous improvement of the Internal Developer Platform (IDP), standardizing CI/CD pipelines to increase deployment frequency and reduce cycle time.
- Design and implement FinOps strategy across AWS and related tooling, identifying cost-saving opportunities without compromising reliability.
- Operate and evolve the Kubernetes platform on Amazon EKS, supporting multi-country production workloads.
- Support and troubleshoot Kafka/MSK-based event-driven architecture used extensively across microservices for async processing, notifications, and cross-service communication.
- Build and integrate MCP-based or other applied-AI solutions to automate log analysis and accelerate Root Cause Analysis during incidents.
- Advise development teams on scalable, secure infrastructure design; identify and mitigate technical debt; support cross-team architectural reviews.
- Implement and maintain Least Privilege Access (IAM) models for human and non-human identities, including peer review of policies.
- Strengthen the Secure Software Development Lifecycle through container standardization, secure base images, and pipeline hardening.
- Lead technical compliance initiatives for audits, certifications (ISO 27001), local fintech regulations, and enterprise integration RFPs.
- Design and implement multi-account, multi-region backup and recovery systems.
- Define and implement Infrastructure as Code for environment provisioning and management.
- Participate in on-call rotations, continuously improving MTTD/MTTR through effective monitoring and alerting.
- Provide technical support and mentorship to development teams adopting internal tooling.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE roles, ideally in fintech or regulated environments.
- Strong experience with multi-account, multi-region AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM, or equivalent services).
- Hands-on production experience with Kubernetes on Amazon EKS (cluster operations, scaling, networking, workload troubleshooting).
- Production experience with Apache Kafka / Amazon MSK: topic design, consumer group management, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
- Experience leading or contributing to the build of Internal Developer Platforms (IDP) and CI/CD standardization (GitHub Actions, self-hosted runners, or similar).
- Experience with observability and incident management (Datadog or similar) and DORA metrics (Cycle Time, CFR, MTTR).
- Practical knowledge of cloud security: Least Privilege, SSDLC, and compliance frameworks (ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, or regional fintech regulations).
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code.
- Technical skills: Ruby, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java; PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis; experience with Java/Spring Boot microservices on Kubernetes (EKS) with Kafka/MSK for event-driven communication.
- Native Spanish; intermediate-advanced English.
- Plus: Familiarity with applying AI/LLMs to operational tasks (automated log analysis, MCPs, agents).
