AWS Cloud Operations / DevOps Engineer
Unternehmensbeschreibung
At the Finanzen.net Group, we’re shaping the future of digital finance. Our group includes three fast-moving companies – Finanzen.net, Finanzen.net Zero, and TraderFox – each a leader in its space, yet all united by shared technical and product synergies. Together, we reach millions of users with platforms that inform, empower, and inspire smarter financial decisions.
StellenbeschreibungWe’re looking for an AWS Cloud Ops/DevOps Engineer to design, secure, and operate a multi-account AWS environment supporting regulated financial workloads. You’ll automate infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and security controls across a stack that includes EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, CloudFront, API Gateway, CloudWatch, WAF/Shield, and more. You will building and maintaining the infrastructure that supports our 400k+ end customers and 5 product development teams as well as external suppliers - ensuring reliability, cost efficiency, and compliance in a highly regulated environment.
Core Responsibilities
Infrastructure & Platform
- Manage Amazon EC2, ECS for containerized workloads.
- Implement Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon VPC, and Route 53 for networking and traffic routing, including secure VPC connectivity to RDS, Redis/ElastiCache, and other services.
- Operate Amazon RDS, DynamoDB, and ElastiCache for data services.
- Optimize Amazon S3 for storage and CloudFront for CDN delivery.
- Ensure uptime and availability of base infrastructure (firewalls, load balancers) and application workloads.
Automation & IaC
- Build reproducible infrastructure using AWS CloudFormation, including reusable templates/modules to standardize App Runner and other service deployments across teams.
- Define and maintain CI/CD pipelines with AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, AWS CDK and GitHub Actions/GitLab CI, enabling consistent delivery and compliance enforcement.
- Automate tagging, encryption, and policy enforcement to meet compliance/security requirements.
Observability & Reliability
- Configure Amazon CloudWatch (metrics, logs, alarms) and X-Ray for tracing, ensuring visibility across all workloads.
- Define and track SLIs/SLOs, uptime targets, and cost-per-user/session metrics to drive operational excellence.
- Establish alerting, runbooks, and escalation paths to ensure a stable and available service for end users.
Security & Compliance
- Set up IAM roles, permissions, and guardrails to enforce least-privilege access.
- Enforce least-privilege with IAM Access Analyzer, KMS, and Secrets Manager.
- Implement AWS WAF, Shield, GuardDuty, Security Hub, and Config for security posture.
- Maintain audit readiness with AWS CloudTrail and compliance mapping (BaFin, DORA).
Data & Integration
- Support API Gateway for microservices and SQS/SNS for messaging.
- Manage Database Migration Service (DMS) for data migrations.
- Knowledge of AWS End User Messaging
Required Skills
- Strong hands-on experience with VPC, Route 53, API Gateway, WAF, CloudFront, EC2, ECS, RDS, S3.
- Proficiency in CloudFormation and CDK for IaC.
- Observability: CloudWatch, X-Ray, log aggregation, and operational metrics.
- Security: IAM, KMS, WAF, Shield, GuardDuty, Security Hub, Config, and compliance policy enforcement.
- Scripting in Python/Bash and Linux administration.
Nice to Have
- Experience with OpenSearch, Kinesis, Redshift, ElastiCache.
- Define and maintain CI/CD pipelines with AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, AWS CDK and GitHub Actions, enabling consistent delivery and compliance enforcement
- Familiarity with AWS DevOps Guru, Step Functions, and Backup.
- Knowledge of BaFin cloud outsourcing and DORA compliance.
What's in it for you
- Work-Life Balance: Flexible working hours, extensive mobile office options
- Workation in European countries
- Training & Development: Participation in seminars and trainings, attendance at conferences and conventions, network of professional exchange partners
- Team Events: Regular rooftop barbecues, company outings, summer party, Christmas party, ice cream truck, as well as regular internal team events supported by dedicated team budgets
- Health: Free fruit, participation in the B2Run corporate run
- Additional Benefits: Company pension scheme, capital-forming benefits, public transport subsidy, discounted employee parking, and much more
- Dog-friendly workplace