Senior DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer

About the Role:
As a
Senior DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer at Thndr, you'll be part of our fast-growing fintech team
. We are looking for someone who can bring deep expertise and hands-on experience in
cloud infrastructure, containerization, networking, and DevOps best practices
. The ideal candidate will be a strategic thinker, capable of
designing, implementing, and guiding a robust DevOps and infrastructure roadmap
across both cloud and on-premise environments. You will play a critical role in building
scalable, resilient, and secure systems
that support our mission-critical financial applications.

What You'll Do:

• Architect, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure across AWS and on-premise environments.
• Lead containerization and orchestration strategy using Docker and Kubernetes, ensuring deployment, scaling, and security best practices.
• Design and manage complex networking solutions, including VPCs, subnets, routing, firewalls, VPNs, load balancers, PrivateLinks, Direct Connect, and AWS Secure VPN setup, as well as hybrid cloud connectivity.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for applications and infrastructure, including automated testing and deployment.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code for scalable, multi-region infrastructures using multilevel Terraform and Terragrunt, ensuring modularity, version control, and automation.
• Implement monitoring, observability, and alerting for all infrastructure components, with a mindset of proactive issue detection and response.
• Collaborate with development, security, data teams to ensure smooth production releases.
• Mentor and guide junior DevOps engineers on best practices across cloud, networking, DevOps, and monitoring disciplines.
• Ability to build deep context across multiple domains (Infrastructure, development, security, operations) to design cohesive, scalable DevOps solutions.
• Drive DevOps initiatives by connecting technical, business, and operational perspectives to ensure scalable, secure, and efficient infrastructure delivery.

What You'll need:

• Strong hands-on expertise in AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM, CloudFormation, networking services).
• Deep knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes (EKS or equivalent) for containerized applications.
• Solid understanding of networking concepts (TCP/IP, routing, DNS, firewalls, VPNs, load balancing) in cloud and on-prem environments.
• Proven experience in designing and implementing DevOps strategies and infrastructure roadmaps.
• Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, or equivalent) for automation.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
• Knowledge of security best practices and fintech compliance standards

Who Are We?
Thndr was founded with the dream to democratize access to investing through smart tech and human design, which is just a fancy way of saying giving anyone with a smartphone easy access to preserve and grow their wealth. At the same time, we're promoting local investment products to propel the economies that we serveHistory has shown that investing is the single greatest way to build long term wealth - but before Thndr, only a very small percentage of people had access to investing due to:

• High barriers to entry - In the form of minimum account balances, brick and mortar onboarding and low financial literacy.
• Irrelevant experience - Catered towards traders and financial experts, therefore alienating the majority of the population.
• Fragmented offering - Investment products are not gathered in a single outlet.

On our short journey we've validated that there is a need for our solution, as illustrated by these key figures:

• 3 million app downloads
• $8.8bn in annualized traded value
• 1 platform in terms of traded value
  
• 84% of our users are investing for the first time
• 65% of our users come from outside of capital cities and have previously had limited access to financial institutions

Building on our success with Thndr, we are continuing to change culture and break down barriers by launching Rumble, the first-of-its-kind subscription-based investment recommendations platform.

Rumble was born with the vision to empower everyday individuals to build wealth confidently and intelligently through access to timely and in-depth advice from the industry's top experts.You can consider Rumble your new financial advisor.

Going beyond traditional investment advice, offering long- and short-term investment recommendations and financial content through engaging articles and videos that can guide users on their financial journey and maximize their returns.

We're proud of how far we've come and the size of our impact in just a few years - but we're just getting started and are excited for what's to come.It'll take a lot of passion, bold risks, and hard work to fulfill our mission of democratizing investing in MENA and giving everyone an equal opportunity to generate and grow their wealth.At Thndr, we're looking for people invigorated by our mission, not just those who simply check off all the boxes. We're looking for people who are hungry to become agents of change and who understand the huge responsibility associated with dealing with people's money.