Senior AWS Platform Engineer

Introduction Here at Fnality, we are powering the future of finance, together: combining best in class technology with free-flowing creativity, and expertise that can make business better for everyone. With you on our side, we’ll be setting new ones every day.
Fnality Services is central to each Fnality Payment System’s (FnPS) effective and resilient operation and provides an efficient common service platform for the secure global delivery of settlement operations.

The Senior Platform Engineer will play a key role in the strategic design, hands-on delivery, and oversight of workstreams relating to Cloud Platform, DevOps, Security and Network support for the Fnality Payment System. As the SME, this person will be tasked with auditing the current technology ecosystem and making recommendations which future-proof the Platform model to support long term business growth. Having worked in a similar industry, the Senior Platform Engineer will have the knowledge and experience, basing their decision making around considerations relating to the storage of highly sensitive data.
Develops and enhances the platform using Infrastructure-as-Code principles, with a strong emphasis on maintainability, reusability, and simplicity in design and implementation Deploy and support Fnality highly resilient and scalable technology products and platforms to customers.
Demonstrates strong security awareness, with the ability to identify potential vulnerabilities and proactively remediate security risks.
Using your extensive experience working on infrastructure and CI/CD using Cloud Native best practices to help Fnality build platforms and systems that are operable, reliable and scalable.
Deploy and support platforms to defined security architectural technology principles, standards, blueprints, and building blocks.
Ensure IT compliance certifications and standards are gained, rolled out, adhered to, and upheld.
Application performance monitoring and event management.
Working closely with customers (Tier 1 Banks, Central Banks) on operational support issues and ensuring 24x7 availability of Fnality platforms.
Experience working as a Cloud/DevOps/Platform/Infrastructure Senior or Lead Engineer as it relates to the seniority and complexity of the role.
Experience of successfully delivering secure, large-scale projects as cloud solutions.
Experience managing best practise standards, administrating and troubleshooting cloud computing platforms, using AWS Experience in supporting the development of DevOps pipelines.
Knowledge of scripting languages to support automation.
Strong understanding of network and security concepts.
Experience working with the AWS platform and tooling; including but not limited to AWS Security Hub, Inspector, Guard Duty, Config, WAF, SSM/SSM Docs, CloudHSM, and Landing Zone architecture.
AWS multi-account structure
AWS – EC2, ELB, S3, Security Hub, Config etc
AWS EKS
Java and Golang
Experience in a Senior Platform Engineer role adhering to regulatory compliance and information security management frameworks (e.g. IS027001, NIST, etc) and as of late had chances to flex your competency, ideally in an agile, fast growing scale-up.
Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), System Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP).
Platform Engineering expertise (e.g. service, design, engineering) coupled with an understanding of financial services and relevant regulations and laws.
Knowledge of and/or interest in blockchain, security operations, financial services back-office processes, systems and products.
You will be vigilantly outcomes-focussed and fully agile in your approach to working. Digital transformation is changing our lives, work and businesses. While other sectors evolve however, financial markets remain slow, fragmented and siloed. What the world needs now is a future-facing financial system for the digital age.
At Fnality, we have been speaking – and listening – to the real users of today’s financial systems. From businesses to banks, there is a clear, collective ambition for a simpler, faster, safer and more resilient payment system; one that can move and settle money quickly and efficiently, with minimised risk and much more transparency.

We are building a new payment system that will enable tokenised, peer-to-peer markets.
In each payment system, a Fnality settlement asset will act as the settlement/payment asset for any Payment (P), Delivery v, Payment (DvP) or payment vs. FnGP are underpinned by Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT). Allow for immediate settlement
Reduced counter-party and credit risk
Reduced operational risk
An ability to move resources from risk mitigation to business growth

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