Payment Gateway Infrastructure Engineer

About the role

We are a fast‑growing fintech company looking for a senior Infrastructure Engineer to own the reliability, scalability and security of our payment gateway. As the first infrastructure hire, you will design the foundation and later help build the team that supports it.

Key responsibilities

• Maintain uptime and performance of the payment gateway infrastructure.
• Design and implement failover, disaster‑recovery and capacity‑planning strategies.
• Document architecture, runbooks and compliance evidence.
• Load‑test systems and proactively resolve performance bottlenecks.
• Ensure alignment with PCI‑DSS Level 1 and national cybersecurity standards.
• Support compliance audits and provide accurate infrastructure evidence.
• Monitor system health, respond to incidents within SLAs and conduct post‑incident reviews.
• Establish on‑call processes as the infrastructure function expands.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.
• 5–8 years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps or SRE roles.
• At least 2 years supporting PCI‑DSS Level 1 environments.
• Direct experience with payments or fintech infrastructure.
• Comfort being the first or founding member of an infrastructure function.

Required skills

• Strong command of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Platform.
• Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes and Terraform.
• Knowledge of load balancing, monitoring and incident‑response processes.
• Ability to translate compliance requirements into infrastructure controls.
• Familiarity with monitoring tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
• Experience using Jira and Confluence for documentation and delivery.