Infrastructure Engineer

About us:

Airtm is a financial-infrastructure company building the future of the online-work economy. We are on a mission to empower the world's growing number of Digital Entrepreneurs in the Global South, giving them the financial freedom to thrive.

The problem is clear: in emerging markets, accessing the dollar economy is difficult. Cross-border payments are slow, expensive, and often lose value to inflation. This limits the potential of millions of talented individuals.

Airtm’s solution is a swift and comprehensive financial platform that facilitates low-value cross-border payments and local cash-outs. As pioneers in stablecoin-payment infrastructure, Airtm has built the most advanced cross-border payment system available on the market.

As a company married to the world of online work, Airtm will go beyond payments to build the necessary infrastructure the online-work economy needs to thrive. We are fostering an entirely new economy, giving individuals, communities, and countries the tools to take control of their financial destinies. 

About the Role

We're looking for a Mid-Level Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and maintain our cloud infrastructure and platform systems. You'll work closely with development teams to create scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure that powers our products.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage AWS cloud infrastructure including VPCs, EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, Lambda, and other services

• Develop and maintain Terraform modules to provision and manage infrastructure in a repeatable, version-controlled manner

• Deploy, manage, and optimize Kubernetes clusters (EKS) including workload orchestration, autoscaling, and resource management

• Build and improve continuous integration and deployment pipelines to enable fast, safe releases

• Implement logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions to ensure system health and rapid incident response

• Apply infrastructure security best practices, manage secrets, and ensure compliance with security policies

• Write scripts and tools to automate operational tasks and improve developer experience

• Create and maintain runbooks, architecture diagrams, and technical documentation

• Partner with development teams to improve platform reliability and streamline deployments

• Participate in an on-call rotation schedule to respond to production incidents and ensure system reliability

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering

• Strong proficiency with AWS services and architecture patterns

• Hands-on experience with Terraform for infrastructure as code

• Solid understanding of Kubernetes concepts: deployments, services, ingress, RBAC, Helm charts

• Experience with containerization with Docker and container registries

• Proficiency in TypeScript and Bash scripting

• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD)

• Understanding of networking fundamentals (DNS, load balancing, firewalls, VPNs)

• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

• Good communication skills and ability to work collaboratively

Nice to Have

• Experience with Golang

• Knowledge of GitOps practices and tools (ArgoCD, Flux)

• Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK)

• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer)

• CKA/CKAD certification

• Experience with service mesh (Istio, Linkerd)

• Background in cost optimization and FinOps practices