Lead DevOps

Hamsa is building the operating system for global finance. Through our AI-enabled Unified Ledger, we connect the world's largest financial institutions while solving critical challenges in interoperability, privacy, and speed. With $400B on platform in 2025 and $1T projected for 2026, we're scaling rapidly and reshaping how the world's financial system operates. Backed by top-tier investors, our global team operates across the US, APAC, EU, and LATAM.

About the role

We are seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to collaborate on the design, automation, and management of our cloud-based infrastructure on AWS. You will work closely with our engineering teams to streamline software compilation, delivery, and operational processes—ensuring a secure, scalable, and reliable environment that supports millions of transactions per day.

Responsibilities

• Automate and manage cloud environments, with a primary focus on AWS.
• Lead the International DevOps team by setting priorities, coaching engineers, and aligning delivery practices with product and engineering goals.
• Design, deploy, and maintain systems for metrics, logging, and monitoring.
• Manage CI/CD pipelines and optimize release engineering workflows.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure and system issues across environments.
• Be part of the on-call rotation for infrastructure alerts and escalations.
• Design and enforce Disaster Recovery (DR) and High Availability (HA) strategies using cloud-native services.
• Implement system hardening and security configurations across services and operating systems.
• Maintain and evolve infrastructure-as-code practices, automating operational processes.
• Continuously assess and improve systems performance, scalability, and security.
• Contribute to internal documentation, knowledge sharing, and team development.

Requirements

• Proven experience building, deploying, and operating highly scalable infrastructure in a security-conscious cloud environment.
• Experience supporting Tier 1 financial institutions with high transaction volumes is a strong plus.
• This is a remote position but does require you to work on East Coast hours.
• 3–5+ years in a senior or lead capacity (mentoring, owning delivery, setting standards).
• Expertise using CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Bitbucket pipeline, Jenkins, Spinnaker) in distributed environments.
• Expertise in Kubernetes (preferably CKA certified) for service orchestration and deployment.
• Strong scripting or programming skills in tools such as Terraform, Python, Bash, or YAML.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services.
• Proficiency with source control systems like Bitbucket or GitHub and tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Experience with monitoring and logging frameworks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog).
• Solid understanding of DevSecOps, including implementation of "shift-left security" and integration of security scanners into CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Good written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to present ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language.
• Highly self-motivated and directed.
• Team-oriented and skilled in working within a collaborative environment.
• Able to work with different cultures and communicate with international teams.