Company Description

SBS is a global financial technology company that's helping banks and the financial services industry to reimagine how to operate in an increasingly digital world. SBS is a trusted partner of more than 1,500 financial institutions and large-scale lenders in 80 countries worldwide, including Santander, Societ Generale, KCB Bank, Kensington Mortgages, Mercedes-Benz, and Toyota FS. Its cloud platform offers clients a composable architecture to digitize operations, ranging from banking, lending, compliance, to payments, and consumer and asset finance. With 3,400 employees in 50 offices, SBS is recognized as a Top 10 European Fintech company by IDC and as a leader in Omdia's Universe: Digital Banking Platforms.

Job Description

What You'll Do (Responsibilities)

Architect Enterprise DevOps Solutions: Design and implement large-scale DevOps architectures across hybrid and multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) with a focus on scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
Drive CI/CD Excellence: Build, optimize, and standardize CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD, etc.) to enable secure, high-availability releases with zero-downtime deployments.
Automate Infrastructure: Lead infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, and Helm, ensuring infrastructure-as-code practices are consistently applied.
Champion DevOps Governance: Define and enforce DevOps governance, standards, and best practices across development and operations teams. Establish guardrails for compliance (PCI DSS, GDPR, PSD2) and operational security.
Embed Security & Resilience: Collaborate with architects, developers, and security teams to integrate DevSecOps practices, ensuring systems are hardened, compliant, and resilient to failures.
Lead Containerization & Orchestration: Drive adoption of Docker and Kubernetes for containerization, orchestration, and workload scaling. Define strategies for microservices deployments and service discovery.
Implement Observability & Reliability: Build and enhance monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks (Prometheus, ELK, Grafana, CloudWatch). Apply SRE principles to track SLIs/SLOs/SLAs and improve reliability.
Evaluate Emerging Tech: Continuously assess new DevOps tools and technologies (service mesh, GitOps, AI-driven automation) and integrate them where they add value.
Mentor & Influence: Guide and coach DevOps engineers, fostering a culture of automation, learning, and operational excellence. Act as a thought leader for DevOps across the organization.

Technologies You'll Work With

Cloud & Infra: AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, Ansible, Helm, CloudFormation.
CI/CD & DevOps: GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Docker, Kubernetes.
Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, ELK stack, Grafana, CloudWatch.
Security & Governance: DevSecOps practices, compliance (GDPR, PCI DSS, PSD2).
Collaboration Tools: Jira, Confluence, Git-based workflows (GitLab/GitHub).

Total Experience Expected: 14-18 years

Qualifications

Extensive DevOps & IT Experience: 15+ years in IT, including 8+ years in DevOps and 3+ years in an architect-level role. Proven success in designing DevOps solutions for complex, distributed systems.
Cloud Platform Mastery: Deep expertise in AWS, Azure, and GCP, with hands-on experience in hybrid and multi-cloud architectures.
Infrastructure-as-Code Skills: Strong proficiency in Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible, with experience in Helm charts for Kubernetes workloads.
CI/CD Expertise: Solid track record with Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, and other modern CI/CD tools. You can design and optimize pipelines for security, speed, and reliability.
Containerization & Orchestration: Expert in Docker and Kubernetes, with a deep understanding of scaling, clustering, and workload distribution.
Security & Networking Knowledge: Solid foundation in networking, system administration, and security hardening across cloud-native platforms.
Agile & DevSecOps Mindset: Experience working in Agile environments, embedding DevOps practices into development lifecycles, and adopting DevSecOps approaches.
Leadership & Collaboration: Strong communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills. Capable of influencing teams, driving alignment, and mentoring engineers.
Cloud and DevOps certifications (AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Azure DevOps Expert, CKA/CKAD).
Proven experience deploying and managing microservices on Kubernetes, including Helm-based packaging and rollout.
Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd) and microservices-based deployments.
Familiarity with SRE practices incident response, error budgets, chaos testing.
Knowledge of scripting and programming languages (Python, Go, Bash) for automation and tooling

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