Senior DevOps Engineer

About us
Over the last 18 years, we have helped over a million satisfied customers move and manage their money. Our award-winning product portfolio allows our customers to make low-cost multi-currency payments across various payment products. From travel money to transfers, currency hedging, to expense management, we are focused on a single goal of making it easy for our customers to manage and move their money.

As a business, we are committed to delivering value to our customers through the combination of advanced payments technology and personal expert service. We’re doing this by hiring exceptional people and are now looking for a Quality Engineer to join our team.

Within our offices in London, Chester and Los Angeles and Europe, Equals comprises of three business lines and brands - Equals Money, FairFX and CardOneMoney. You will join a very close-knit, talented and supportive team from various backgrounds who believe that bringing different perspectives together helps us understand our customers' needs. United, by one thing, making money management straightforward and cost-effective for our customers.

About the role

We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join and existing team who will be hands-on running and  improving our AWS platform, supporting engineering teams, and helping make our systems more  secure and reliable. You’ll work primarily with Lambda, Fargate, Aurora, VPC and Security Hub,  maintain IaC (Terraform, Serverless), and support CI/CD (GitHub Actions, CodeBuild/CodeDeploy).  This is a practical, collaborative role — you’ll be solving day-to-day operational problems while  helping plan and deliver longer-term improvements. 

Your Responsibilities: 

• Operate and troubleshoot production and staging systems in AWS (Lambda, Fargate, Aurora,  VPC). 

• Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and AWS CodeBuild/CodeDeploy. 

• Author and update Terraform and Serverless configs; review pull requests for infrastructure  changes. 

• Respond to incidents, follow runbooks, participate in root-cause analysis and implement  fixes. 

• Work with engineers to onboard services to the platform and provide practical guidance on  deployments, observability and cost. 

• Implement security best practices: IAM hygiene, Security Hub findings, secrets management  and least-privilege changes. 

• Build and tune monitoring, alerts, logging and tracing to reduce noise and catch real issues  early. 

• Automate repetitive tasks (backups, health checks, tidyups) and keep runbooks and docs  current.
  

Your Profile 

Attitude & Behaviours 

• Collaborative team player who fits into an existing engineering team - shares knowledge, asks questions, and helps peers. 

• Takes ownership for services they touch; pragmatic about shipping improvements  incrementally. 

• Comfortable learning on the job and seeking mentorship when needed. 

• Communicates clearly and respectfully during incidents and in day-to-day work.

• Security- and reliability-minded: prefers small, testable changes that reduce risk. 

Skills & Experience 

• 4-8 years working with AWS services, ideally including Lambda, Fargate (or ECS), Aurora (or  RDS), VPC and IAM. 

• Hands-on experience with Terraform and/or Serverless Framework for infrastructure as  code. 

• Practical experience building CI/CD pipelines - GitHub Actions plus familiarity with  CodeBuild/CodeDeploy or equivalents. 

• Good debugging and scripting skills (Bash, Python, or similar) and comfort with  containers/Docker. 

• Familiarity with monitoring/observability tools (CloudWatch, X-Ray, or comparable) and  writing meaningful alerts. 

• Solid understanding of networking basics (subnets, security groups, routing, NAT) and  security principles. 

• Experience with incident response, postmortems and maintaining runbooks.

• Nice to have: AWS certifications (eg. AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or Solutions Architect)  and experience with cost optimisation and database ops for Aurora.

Our investment in you
We welcome people into Equals and desire to grow and develop our talented teams. We believe in teamwork and celebrating our successes. We strive to embrace our values. We want to put you in the driving seat of your career and achieve your full potential through growth opportunities and developmental support.

When you join Equals, we aim to help you to get more out of your career. We will also offer you the following benefits;

Benefits

1. A competitive salary benchmarked against a peer group.

2. 25 days holiday per year + your birthday off

3. Opportunities for progression, development and learning new skills - £250 towards the cost of learning & development. 

4. Free onsite Nuffield Health gym & pool (London) and discounted gym membership elsewhere

5. GetActive with Aviva - Health and Wellbeing discounts on services and products

6. Interbank currency rates on travel money and international transfers.

7. Bupa Private Healthcare

8. Free Eye Test and £50 up to the cost of glasses

9. EAP Service - Mental Health Services

10. Life Assurance Policy - x3 annual salary

11. Contributory pension scheme

12. Cycle to Work Scheme

13. Season Ticket Loans

14. Enhanced Parental Policies

15. Complimentary tea, coffee, soft drinks and fruit

16. We operate a hybrid working arrangement where possible
    

Where possible we offer the opportunity to work flexibly and the opportunity to balance some remote working with time in the office collaborating, taking part in events and developing the social connections that make working with us rewarding.

Equals strives to create a workplace where we can all be ourselves. We believe in inclusion, equality and the power of diversity, so you'll be encouraged to bring your unique perspectives and experiences, and help us understand what you need to do your best work.