Senior Software Engineer - DevOps

About the Company 

At Redpin, we simplify life’s most important payments. Buying a property overseas can be stressful—especially when it comes to moving money. Through our Currencies Direct and TorFX brands, we’ve been helping customers do exactly that for over 25 years.

With recent investment, we are building a new generation of digital products and services that make international real estate payments simpler, faster, and more transparent.

As part of Redpin 2.0, we are transforming from a horizontal FX platform into a verticalized, embedded software company, positioning ourselves as the global solution for real estate payments.

About the Role

At Redpin, this role is not just about managing infrastructure, it's about building intelligent, scalable, reliable, and developer-first platforms that power our next-generation digital products.

As a Senior Software Engineer – DevOps - Database Engineering, you will play a hands-on role in designing, building, and operating cloud-native infrastructure, DevOps platforms, and database services, with a strong emphasis on automation, reliability, security, performance, and cost efficiency.

We are looking for an experienced DevOps - Database Engineer with strong expertise across cloud and on-premises environments, including database migrations, cloud modernization, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, observability, and platform operations. The role will work closely with application and engineering teams to build scalable, secure, and highly available platforms while continuously improving developer experience and operational efficiency.

What You'll Do

Database & Cloud Technologies

• Strong hands-on experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, or MS SQL Server; NoSQL experience is a plus.
• Experience managing on-premises database infrastructure, including configuration, performance, backup/restore, HA, DR, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with cloud-managed databases such as AWS RDS/Aurora etc.
• Strong understanding of cloud and on-premises database architecture, networking, security, IAM, and hybrid environments.
• Hands-on experience with database migrations, particularly on-premises to cloud, using tools such as AWS DMS or equivalent.

Cloud Infrastructure (AWS)

• Design and implement solutions for DevOps and platform engineering use cases
• Design, provision, and operate secure, scalable AWS infrastructure
• Work across compute, networking, storage, and IAM
• Support multi-account AWS environments and apply governance guardrails
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and/or CloudFormation
• Troubleshoot and resolve cloud infrastructure issues

CI/CD & DevOps Automation

• Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for application and microservices teams (preferably using GitLab or GitHub)
• Automate build, test, security scanning, and deployments

Cloud Security & Governance (Execution Focus)

• Implement AWS security best practices including IAM, VPC security, encryption, and secrets management
• Enforce tagging standards, access controls, and policy guardrails
• Support audit and compliance requirements

Reliability & Observability

• Implement and manage monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions
• Build dashboards for system health, availability, and performance
• Improve system reliability through automation and proactive monitoring

DevOps Best Practices

• Apply and promote DevOps principles such as automation, CI/CD, and IaC
• Reduce operational toil through tooling and automation
• Support teams in adopting cloud-native and DevOps best practices

Collaboration & Mentorship

• Work closely with application, SRE, and security teams
• Mentor junior DevOps engineers through code reviews and hands-on guidance
• Contribute to documentation, runbooks, and operational standards

What You’ll Need

• 6 + years of experience leading or independently executing enterprise database migration and modernization projects, including minimal or near-zero downtime migrations.
• Hands-on experience with AWS DMS or equivalent migration technologies, database replication, and Change Data Capture (CDC).
• Experience working across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid-cloud environments.
• Experience with DR drills, RTO/RPO implementation, backup/recovery, and database resilience testing.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS, including EC2, EKS, ECS, VPC, IAM, RDS, S3, and CloudWatch.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform, and configuration/automation tools.
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes/EKS.
• Strong scripting skills using Python or Bash.
• Solid understanding of Linux, networking, cloud security, monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Strong troubleshooting, automation, and problem-solving skills.
• Familiarity with FinOps practices and cloud cost optimization.
• Experience with databases running in containerized/Kubernetes environments is a plus.

Bonus Points

•  AWS Config, CloudTrail, GuardDuty
• Observability tools (Corologix, ELK, Datadog)
• GitOps tools (ArgoCD, Flux)
• Scripting skills in Python, Go, or Bash
• Exposure to FinOps practices
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional

We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where we connect the dots for international property payments. If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let’s move the world of PropTech forward together.

Redpin, Currencies Direct and TorFX are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, colour, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.