About the Role

Fence Finance is seeking a mid-senior DevOps Engineer to implement several improvements across our deployment pipelines, infrastructure, observability, and developer experience. You will own the infrastructure roadmap, lead incident response, and be hands-on modernizing our systems-reducing operational friction while enabling the engineering team to ship quickly and safely.

Key Responsibilities

• Modernize CI/CD & Deployment Workflows
• Improve CI/CD to streamline build, test, and deploy processes.
• Remove cross-service deployment dependencies and improve build efficiency.
• Support for testing in isolated environments.
• Implement deployment strategies such as blue/green or canary releases where appropriate.
• Build a Comprehensive Observability Stack
• Configure a unified monitoring, logging, and tracing system.
• Operationalize alerting practices aligned with engineering needs.
• Introduce standardized dashboards and improve incident response workflows.
• Strengthen Operational Practices
• Implement reliable rollback mechanisms for all services.
• Ensure proper backup, restore, and general disaster-recovery procedures.
• Improve auditability, reproducibility, and visibility in deployment operations.
• Refine runbooks and operational processes.
• Improve Reliability and Resilience
• Review and enhance infrastructure redundancy, replication, and fault tolerance.
• Follow clear reliability practices to support scaling and growth.
• Overhaul Infrastructure-as-Code & Cloud Architecture
• Continue the assessment of current IaC usage
• Bring manual infrastructure into code to reduce drift and increase consistency.
• Improve cross-account governance and cloud resource organization.
• Enhance Security & Governance
• Implement secure container build processes and vulnerability scanning.
• Strengthen IAM practices, certificate management, and secrets handling.
• Follow foundational security baselines and ensure compliance with best practices.
• Improve Developer Experience
• Configure centralized configuration and secrets management.
• Reduce reliance on local scripts and manual .env coordination.
• Build tools and workflows that simplify development and testing.

Requirements

• Experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Platform Engineering.
• Strong AWS expertise across compute, networking, IAM, and monitoring services.
• Proficiency with Docker and modern container workflows.Deep familiarity with IaC tools (CDK, Terraform, or similar).
• Experience building or integrating observability systems. Comfort with automating infrastructure and operational processes.
• Strong scripting ability (e.g., Bash, Python, Node.js).
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions preferred).

Bonus Skills

• High ownership mindset and ability to work autonomously.
• Strong communication and collaboration with engineering teams.
• Pragmatic approach to trade-offs and technical decision-making