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DevOps Engineer - Paynest
Hiire
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Small team. Real ownership. Visible impact. You'll shape how a regulated fintech designs, secures, and operates its cloud infrastructure - end to end - from day one. Sound like you? Apply now. Hiire is helping Paynest find the right DevOps Engineer for this crucial mission. You'll be their first hire whose only job is infrastructure. Not one project among many - the whole platform, yours. Company Overview Paynest is a fintech on a mission: corporate cards, supplier payments, and employee expenses that give finance teams real-time control, 0% FX, cashback, fraud detection, and automated accounting. Behind it all is AWS and Kubernetes - and they need someone to own it. Sick of huge teams where impact and ownership get watered down? Here, your work is visible. When deployments are smooth, that's you. When monitoring catches a problem before customers notice, that's you. You'll set the standards - for observability, for reliability, for security - instead of simply inheriting someone else's. What you'll do • Own the platform. AWS infrastructure and Kubernetes across multiple regions, managed as code so every environment is reproducible and reviewed. • Make shipping boring. CI/CD pipelines that let engineers deploy small changes often with safe rollouts and easy rollbacks. • See everything. Build monitoring, logging, and alerting from the ground up. Respond to incidents, run blameless post-mortems, define disaster recovery and actually test it. • Keep us safe. Least-privilege IAM, secrets management, KMS encryption, network hardening. Produce evidence for ISO 27001 and DORA - Paynest is a regulated fintech, and that's part of the craft, not an obstacle. • Run the data. Databases with backups, cross-region replication, and restore drills that prove they work. What You'll Bring • 3+ years running production infrastructure , hands-on with Terraform and core AWS services (networking, compute, IAM, databases, storage, monitoring, etc.) • Comfortable on Linux, with Python or Bash at your fingertips • Thrive in early-stage startup ambiguity - no fully defined specs, evolving requirements, small team, real stakes • Curious about how systems fail, and driven to make them reliable and secure • You write things down: runbooks, decisions, post-incident notes Bonus points: Kubernetes, Docker, GitLab, monitoring tools, mobile release pipelines (Expo EAS, App Store, Google Play), comfortable with Portuguese and English, with Spanish being a plus. But honestly, learning ability and easy to work with mindset matter more than any specific tool. What we offer Small team. Real ownership. Visible impact. You'll shape how a regulated fintech designs, secures, and operates its cloud infrastructure - end to end - from day one. • Competitive salary package • Health insurance • Flexible Hybrid work in Lisbon or Porto (once per week) • No middle-management Seems interesting? Apply now and let's have a chat. Department Cloud, Infrastructure & Security Role DevOps Locations Lisbon, Porto Remote status Hybrid About Hiire We are based in Estonia and Cyprus, and we operate globally. We love to work remotely and travel the world. Having freedom, ownership and passion for recruitment are key for us. We hire amazing tech talent for great companies We coach highly motivated Professionals to get better careers We empower recruiters to hire more and better Talent. Do you want to help us to grow? Founded in 2022 Co-workers 9