--- title: Senior DevOps Engineer (FinTech/PSP) – remote friendly (EMEA) at SMARTCORE AG description: Location : Remote (Europe) / Relocation to Barcelona (Hybrid) Project : FinTech Holding (Payment Processing) Salary : Competitive (negotiable based on level) SmartCore is a fintech holding building in --- # Senior DevOps Engineer (FinTech/PSP) – remote friendly (EMEA) **Company:** SMARTCORE AG **Location:** Tbilisi, Georgia **Posted:** 2026-09-14 **Apply by:** 2026-10-29 **Tags:** devops [Apply / View original posting](https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4467086125) ## Job description Location : Remote (Europe) / Relocation to Barcelona (Hybrid) Project : FinTech Holding (Payment Processing) Salary : Competitive (negotiable based on level) SmartCore is a fintech holding building infrastructure for the next generation of payments. Our solutions cover the entire financial operations cycle — from core banking and processing to cards, wallets, and anti-fraud systems. Our core area is card acquiring , ensuring high-speed and secure payment processing. Over the past five years, we have built a reliable infrastructure across the EU and CIS, launched our own payment solutions , and continue to grow actively. We are looking for a Strong Middle / Senior DevOps Engineer to support and develop our cloud infrastructure. In this role, you will work across stage and prod environments, focusing on existing services, new environments, automation, monitoring, and security. Our team consists of: CTO, CEO, 6 backend developers, Senior DevOps, an ML engineer and 2 PMs. 🛠 Technical Landscape AWS: VPC, IAM, EKS, ECS/Fargate, ALB, ECR, RDS, ElastiCache, MSK, S3, Route53, ACM, Secrets Manager, KMS. Kubernetes: EKS, Deployments, Services, Ingress, IRSA, Helm, Kustomize, ArgoCD, Karpenter, External Secrets. IaC: Terraform, Terragrunt. CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Docker, AWS CodeBuild / CodePipeline, ECR. Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry / ADOT, CloudWatch, alerts. Data & Queues: PostgreSQL (RDS/Aurora), Redis, Kafka / MSK, MongoDB, ClickHouse. Cloudflare: DNS, CDN, WAF, SSL / TLS, traffic proxying. Security: IAM / IRSA, secrets outside of Git, TLS, PCI / ISO compliance. Base: Linux, bash, git, networking (DNS, load balancing, security groups). 🎯 Your Responsibilities Supporting infrastructure in AWS: network, compute, databases, queues, and secrets. Adding new services, environments, and components to Kubernetes and ECS. Keeping IaC (Terraform / Terragrunt) and GitOps (ArgoCD) up to date. Setting up and troubleshooting CI/CD: image building, deployments, and pipelines. Monitoring logs and alerts (Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch). Investigating incidents (on-call) and assisting the development team with deployments and environments. Managing Cloudflare: DNS, CDN, WAF, and certificates. Maintaining ClickHouse and the rest of the data layer (PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, MongoDB). Ensuring security compliance: accesses, secrets, network, and PCI / ISO requirements. 📋 Expectations (Must have) AWS: 4+ years of production experience (VPC, IAM, EKS, ECS, RDS, load balancing, secrets). Kubernetes: Practical experience with EKS, deployments, debugging, Ingress, IRSA. Infrastructure & CI/CD: Strong skills in Terraform (modules, state), Terragrunt, Helm + GitOps (ArgoCD), Docker, and CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions / CodeBuild). Tech Stack: Experience with ECS Fargate, Kafka / MSK, ClickHouse, Cloudflare (DNS, CDN, WAF), Grafana + Prometheus / AMP, CloudWatch, External Secrets, and Karpenter. Domain & Operations: FinTech or PCI experience is required. Must be ready for on-call duties and production debugging (e.g., pod not starting, no traffic, missing metrics). Languages: Russian and English (sufficient for documentation and AWS). 🎁 We Offer Impact: Opportunity to join at the origins of the project with a lot of new design and development. Direct access to technical decision-making and no bureaucracy. Environment: Agile processes based on Scrum without unnecessary bureaucracy. Location: Full-time, flexible schedule, comfortable remote work in a European time zone, or relocation assistance to Barcelona, Spain. Culture: We invest in engineering quality (modern tools, documentation, clear processes) and provide experience working in a large holding with its own infrastructure. If you are ready to build a reliable foundation for a financial product — feel free to apply directly via LinkedIn or by sending your CV to stanislav.pavlov[@]smartcore.pro --- 🔔 [Monitor similar jobs on Gurify](https://gurify.com/?utm_source=techgeo&utm_medium=jobboard&utm_campaign=monitor_similar&role=Senior+DevOps+Engineer+%28FinTech%2FPSP%29+%E2%80%93+remote+friendly+%28EMEA%29) — get alerted when matching roles are posted in Georgia. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org/","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Senior DevOps Engineer (FinTech/PSP) – remote friendly (EMEA)","description":"

Location : Remote (Europe) / Relocation to Barcelona (Hybrid) Project : FinTech Holding (Payment Processing) Salary : Competitive (negotiable based on level) SmartCore is a fintech holding building infrastructure for the next generation of payments. Our solutions cover the entire financial operations cycle — from core banking and processing to cards, wallets, and anti-fraud systems. Our core area is card acquiring , ensuring high-speed and secure payment processing. Over the past five years, we have built a reliable infrastructure across the EU and CIS, launched our own payment solutions , and continue to grow actively. We are looking for a Strong Middle / Senior DevOps Engineer to support and develop our cloud infrastructure. In this role, you will work across stage and prod environments, focusing on existing services, new environments, automation, monitoring, and security. Our team consists of: CTO, CEO, 6 backend developers, Senior DevOps, an ML engineer and 2 PMs. 🛠 Technical Landscape AWS: VPC, IAM, EKS, ECS/Fargate, ALB, ECR, RDS, ElastiCache, MSK, S3, Route53, ACM, Secrets Manager, KMS. Kubernetes: EKS, Deployments, Services, Ingress, IRSA, Helm, Kustomize, ArgoCD, Karpenter, External Secrets. IaC: Terraform, Terragrunt. CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Docker, AWS CodeBuild / CodePipeline, ECR. Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry / ADOT, CloudWatch, alerts. Data & Queues: PostgreSQL (RDS/Aurora), Redis, Kafka / MSK, MongoDB, ClickHouse. Cloudflare: DNS, CDN, WAF, SSL / TLS, traffic proxying. Security: IAM / IRSA, secrets outside of Git, TLS, PCI / ISO compliance. Base: Linux, bash, git, networking (DNS, load balancing, security groups). 🎯 Your Responsibilities Supporting infrastructure in AWS: network, compute, databases, queues, and secrets. Adding new services, environments, and components to Kubernetes and ECS. Keeping IaC (Terraform / Terragrunt) and GitOps (ArgoCD) up to date. Setting up and troubleshooting CI/CD: image building, deployments, and pipelines. Monitoring logs and alerts (Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch). Investigating incidents (on-call) and assisting the development team with deployments and environments. Managing Cloudflare: DNS, CDN, WAF, and certificates. Maintaining ClickHouse and the rest of the data layer (PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, MongoDB). Ensuring security compliance: accesses, secrets, network, and PCI / ISO requirements. 📋 Expectations (Must have) AWS: 4+ years of production experience (VPC, IAM, EKS, ECS, RDS, load balancing, secrets). Kubernetes: Practical experience with EKS, deployments, debugging, Ingress, IRSA. Infrastructure & CI/CD: Strong skills in Terraform (modules, state), Terragrunt, Helm + GitOps (ArgoCD), Docker, and CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions / CodeBuild). Tech Stack: Experience with ECS Fargate, Kafka / MSK, ClickHouse, Cloudflare (DNS, CDN, WAF), Grafana + Prometheus / AMP, CloudWatch, External Secrets, and Karpenter. Domain & Operations: FinTech or PCI experience is required. Must be ready for on-call duties and production debugging (e.g., pod not starting, no traffic, missing metrics). Languages: Russian and English (sufficient for documentation and AWS). 🎁 We Offer Impact: Opportunity to join at the origins of the project with a lot of new design and development. Direct access to technical decision-making and no bureaucracy. Environment: Agile processes based on Scrum without unnecessary bureaucracy. Location: Full-time, flexible schedule, comfortable remote work in a European time zone, or relocation assistance to Barcelona, Spain. Culture: We invest in engineering quality (modern tools, documentation, clear processes) and provide experience working in a large holding with its own infrastructure. If you are ready to build a reliable foundation for a financial product — feel free to apply directly via LinkedIn or by sending your CV to stanislav.pavlov[@]smartcore.pro

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