Who We Are

Provenir is a global fintech company with offices across North America, the UK, Latin America, India and Singapore. Recognized by the Global BankTech Awards as the the 2023 “Best Credit and Risk Solution by a Vendor”, we help fintechs, financial institutions, and payment providers make smarter decisions, faster. We are passionate about technology and empowering businesses to become industry leaders. As a leading provider of decisioning, and analytics products for financial services and other industries, we empower businesses to create digital-first decisioning solutions that drive business growth. If you’d like to work at an innovative fintech with a global footprint that is redefining the industry, then we want you!

Job Description

We are seeking a visionary Head of DevOps to lead the transformation of our DevOps strategy, driving innovation, automation, and cloud excellence with a strong focus on AWS technologies. This role is critical in reimagining our cloud infrastructure to be more resilient, scalable, and future-proof. You will spearhead initiatives to modernize our CI/CD pipelines, cloud security, and observability, ensuring a seamless and efficient development lifecycle. Working closely with engineering, security, and operations teams, you will be at the forefront of building a DevOps culture that accelerates business growth and technological excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, and evolve a cutting-edge AWS infrastructure that is highly scalable, secure, and efficient.
• Lead a team of DevOps engineers to drive a transformation from traditional operations to a fully automated, cloud-native approach.
• Develop and enforce Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices using Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK to achieve full automation.
• Establish a self-service DevOps culture, enabling development teams to deploy and manage applications seamlessly.
• Overhaul and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, and other modern automation tools.
• Champion a cloud-first, serverless-first approach leveraging AWS Lambda, Step Functions, and event-driven architectures.
• Lead the adoption of container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS, ECS) and microservices infrastructure for greater agility and resilience.
• Drive innovation in observability and monitoring, leveraging AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and AI-driven analytics.
• Implement and advocate for DevSecOps strategies, embedding security controls into CI/CD workflows and AWS environments.
• Spearhead a robust disaster recovery and business continuity strategy for high availability and fault tolerance.
• Optimize AWS costs through FinOps principles, ensuring cost efficiency while maintaining high performance.
• Build and manage AI/ML pipelines at scale, leveraging technologies like Apache Spark, Kafka, Apache Druid, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Kubernetes for ML (Kubeflow), MLflow, Airflow, and AWS SageMaker for real-time data processing, model training, and deployment.
• Stay ahead of industry trends, bringing forward emerging technologies and best practices that elevate DevOps maturity.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), with a proven track record of transformation initiatives.
• 6+ years of deep, hands-on expertise with AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, Route 53, CloudFront, etc.).
• Advanced proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK.
• Strong experience in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or Go.
• Mastery of Kubernetes (EKS or self-managed clusters), Docker, and microservices architecture.
• Extensive experience in CI/CD pipeline automation with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, AWS CodePipeline.
• Deep understanding of observability, logging, and proactive monitoring solutions (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack).
• Expertise in cloud security, IAM governance, and compliance frameworks.
• Proven leadership in driving cultural and technological DevOps transformations.
• Hands-on experience in building and managing AI/ML pipelines at scale, utilizing Apache Spark, Kafka, Apache Druid, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Kubeflow, MLflow, Airflow, and AWS SageMaker.

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional Or AWS Solutions Architect – Professional.
• Experience implementing serverless architectures at scale.
• Strong grasp of FinOps strategies for AWS cost optimization.
• Background in SRE principles and driving high-reliability engineering practices.
• Experience in building AI-driven automation and self-healing infrastructures.

Our employees are our top priority, we offer comprehensive health and wellness plans. You will enjoy paid time off and company holidays, flexible and remote-friendly opportunities, and maternity/paternity leave along with retirement benefits to plan for your future.

At Provenir, we recognize that diversity and inclusion make our teams stronger. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and welcome everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, domestic partner status, citizenship, or veteran status or medical condition. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.