Lead DevOps Engineer

London – Hybrid, 1 day a week in the London office

Reporting to VP Tech

We are looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer to lead our Platform Team as we continue to build a secure and resilient high-performance platform for our clients. You will be responsible for managing the team and driving platform strategy across the business.

What success looks like in this role:

• Taking responsibility for the quality of the changes delivered by the Platform Team

• Influencing, coaching and line-managing Platform Team engineers

• Aligning your team on goals, outcomes and timelines

• Being the go-to expert for AWS, owning our platform in AWS and staying up to date with new features

• Creating and maintaining our platform using Terraform

• Using metrics and monitoring to improve platform performance, security, reliability and cost control

• Improving the quality of life of your team and the business, through automation, process improvement or new technologies

About the team:

You will join a technical team of approximately 40 technologists with a key purpose of continuously and reliably collecting large amounts of financial data describing cross-border payments, then processing the data, verifying its quality and serving it to our users so that they can make informed business decisions

The Platform team consists of a core team with three Engineers, supporting the wider business

We follow Agile methodologies and collaborate closely with product and other technical teams, so you will be interacting with various stakeholders across the business in addition to your immediate team

You should apply if you can confidently:

• Line manage a team, coaching them to reach your level of expertise

• Write Terraform and configure Kubernetes

• Build a secure, resilient and reliable platform on AWS

• Architect and build a platform for data-centric applications and services in a real-world production environment

• Describe your opinions on what a good platform looks like, from networking, compute and storage to monitoring

• Talk about how you learn and improve your skills

These skills will help, but aren’t essential:

• Experience utilising AI to increase productivity and efficiency across the team

• Building CI/CD pipelines, especially with GitLab CI

• Configuring and using observability tools (e.g. Prometheus and Grafana)

Tech Stack:

AWS, Terragrunt, Terraform, EKS, Helm, ArgoCD, Docker, GitLab, Gitlab CI, Victoria Metrics (Prometheus compatible), Vault, Clickhouse, PostgreSQL, MariaDB/MySQL, MongoDB, KeyCloak, ELK, Grafana

About us:

FXC Intelligence is a leading provider of cross-border payments data and intelligence, providing some of the world's biggest companies, central banks and non-governmental organisations with the strategic insights, expertise and awareness to effectively compete in their chosen markets. By joining us, you will be diving into a world of data-driven exploration and innovation, revolutionising financial insights through cutting-edge technologies, machine learning and predictive analytics.

Your contributions will shape the future of cross-border finance, helping clients to uncover better paths to growth and profitability, as well as being a trusted reference and source for many of the leading international publications.

We are proud to produce industry-changing data and intelligence, aided by our company values of being customer-focused, taking ownership, knowledge, communication and leadership.

What’s in it for you?

Time off and Flexibility

• 25 days holiday per annum (plus bank holidays), increasing to 26 days after two years of service

• After one year of employment, you can work abroad for up to three months of the year, with approval from your manager

• After four years of employment, you are entitled to a fully paid six-week sabbatical

Health and Wellbeing

• Healthcare for you and your family with AXA

• Quarterly external one-to-one wellbeing coach sessions

Financial

• Annual bonus/option scheme

• Pension scheme

• Enhanced maternity and paternity policy

• Annual salary reviews with your manager

Learning and Development

• Quarterly external one-to-one career coaching sessions

• £1,000 annual learning budget for courses, books and conferences

Culture

• A chance to work with a vibrant, friendly team in a relaxed but committed culture

• Monthly London-based socials paid for by the company, from mini golf to cooking challenges to escape rooms!

• We operate in a hybrid working environment, trusting employees to work where they work best, with the expectation that you come into our London Liverpool Street office each month for company update meetings and for ad-hoc team sessions

• The opportunity to join our LGBTQIA+ and Women in Fintech employee networks

• We have been recognised as one of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work in 2025! Read our blog here on “Five reasons FXC Intelligence was chosen as a Sunday Times Best Place to Work in 2025!”

We’re an innovative company that strives to look after its team, and we take pride in providing a positive company culture. Feel free to check out our blog, Instagram and Glassdoor pages to learn more about our culture and hear directly from our team about what it's really like to work with us!

At FXC Intelligence, we believe in embracing diversity in all forms and fostering an inclusive environment. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran status, neurodiversity status or disability status.

AI Usage Disclaimer:

At FXC Intelligence, we are enthusiastic about the use of AI tools and value candidates with experience or interest in AI technologies. However, we kindly ask that candidates refrain from using AI tools during interviews or for technical tasks unless explicitly instructed by us. This is because we want to understand your thought process and approach to tasks. If AI assistance is used in tasks or interviews where it was not permitted and is detected, the submission may be discounted.