Senior DevOps Engineer - AWS - Remote

Novatus is a Series B scale-up RegTech SaaS provider and boutique advisory practice, enabling financial services firms to solve complex challenges and redefine what’s possible through expert-led technology and consulting. Our SaaS platform, En ACT (short for Ensuring Accurate, Complete and Timely reporting), is a market-leading solution for regulatory transaction reporting and reconciliation, providing real-time, independent oversight of transaction reporting across all global regulatory regimes.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will scope and deliver complex infrastructure projects end-to-end, building and maintaining scalable, secure, and performant systems. This role requires a strong technical background and a proven track record of building and scaling systems in complex environments. You'll be joining as we have begun actively modernizing our infrastructure from traditional deployments to automation and cloud-native systems with AWS, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Databricks, Snowflake and Grafana.

• Design and implement AWS cloud infrastructure, writing clean and maintainable Infrastructure as Code for repeatable, auditable deployments across environments.
• Drive reliability, scalability, security, observability and cost efficiency of AWS infrastructure.
• Provide mentorship to other DevOps engineers, sharing expertise and raising engineering quality across the team.
• Partner with Data Engineering to support platform infrastructure (AWS, Databricks, Snowflake).
• Strong hands-on AWS infrastructure experience, including IAM, VPCs, compute, containers, load balancing, storage, security, resilience, and cost optimization.
• Hands-on experience deploying and operating applications on Kubernetes in production, including Helm/manifests, ingress, configuration/secrets, observability, and troubleshooting live workloads.
• Proficient with Infrastructure as Code, especially Terraform, with experience building maintainable, reusable modules and environment patterns.
• Solid production networking knowledge: TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, BGP, routing, subnets, NAT, firewalls/security groups, VPN/private connectivity, load balancers, and practical troubleshooting.
• Experience designing observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions for distributed systems.
• Strong software engineering ability beyond basic scripting.
• Ideally someone who has contributed to larger software projects or built maintainable platform/backend tooling in a language such as Python, Go, Java, TypeScript, or similar.
• Comfortable using modern AI-assisted engineering workflows, including agentic coding tools and LLM-based automation.
• Familiarity with concepts such as MCP servers, tool-calling, RAG/vector search, embeddings, and AI-assisted platform operations.
• Working knowledge of databases and data platforms, including SQL databases such as PostgreSQL/MySQL and exposure to NoSQL or distributed data stores.
• Track record of independently scoping and delivering complex infrastructure projects end-to-end.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Security, or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer.
• FinTech, RegTech, or financial services background.

If you are driven to add value and help grow our business, you will enjoy a rewarding experience that recognises your contributions.

Benefits include:

• Private Medical Insurance (via AXA): includes mental health, dental, vision, and private GP access.
• Life Insurance - 4× salary (via Unum): includes GP access, medical second opinions, physiotherapy, lifestyle coaching, savings and discounts, mental health support, bereavement counselling, and cancer support services for you, your partner, and your child(ren).
• Salary sacrifice childcare and nursery scheme (via YellowNest).
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Enhanced parental leave (maternity & paternity).
• Accelerated career progression based on readiness and performance, not tenure or time spent in role.
• Holiday entitlement increases with tenure.
• Flexible hours with core collaboration time.
• Paid volunteering leave.
• Gym & fitness discounts.
• Bi-annual socials.
• Office snacks and drinks.

All employment decisions are made based on business needs, role requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, age, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, socioeconomic background, disability, or any other characteristic protected under the Equality Act 2010. We maintain a workplace culture that is inclusive, respectful, and supportive.