About the role
Platform Lead (DevOps / Infrastructure)
About Us
Are you ready to shape the financial future of a rapidly growing fintech that's transforming lives across Southeast Asia and beyond?
We're not your typical company — we're a rocketship! At FINN, established in 2022 by experienced serial founders, we're on a mission to transform financial well-being for underbanked employees. Our product provides early wage access, financial education, budgeting tools, part-time job opportunities, and micro-insurances. We've hit product-market fit and are scaling aggressively across multiple markets.
The Role
We need a true Platform Lead who stays deep in infrastructure but also guides a small, growing Platform team.
This is a heavily hands-on role (70–80% technical) with people leadership (20–30% — 1:1s, code-review ownership, tech direction, mentoring, team velocity). If you love architecting production-grade cloud infrastructure yourself and helping engineers around you level up, this is for you.
You'll own the infrastructure that powers a high-growth fintech with high-throughput production systems, serving hundreds of thousands of users across Southeast Asia and Africa. We're in the middle of a major infrastructure maturity push: closing IaC gaps, hardening CI/CD, improving observability, and preparing our platform for rapid expansion across multiple markets.
This isn't a role where you manage dashboards or sit in meetings all day. You'll architect, build, and operate critical cloud infrastructure — while setting the technical direction for the Platform squad and growing the team. Future growth into Head of Platform / Infrastructure is realistic for the right person.
What You'll Do
Technical (70–80%)
* Own and operate cloud infrastructure — compute, networking, identity, and security controls — using Infrastructure-as-Code * Manage container orchestration workloads, including cluster upgrades, deployment management, and autoscaling * Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines — automated testing, deployment automation, and quality gates * Drive observability — implement and improve monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing across all services * Harden security posture — cloud security posture management, automated scanning in CI, access policies, network security, and contributing toward industry security certifications * Manage multi-cloud infrastructure — we run workloads across multiple cloud providers * Operate messaging infrastructure — event-driven architectures, including retry strategies and dead-letter queue management * Standardize market launches — build repeatable infrastructure provisioning so new markets can go live in days, not weeks * Participate in on-call rotation — respond to production incidents and drive root-cause analysis and prevention
Leadership (20–30%)
* Set technical direction for the Platform squad — define the infrastructure roadmap, make build-vs-buy decisions, and establish engineering standards * Run weekly 1:1s with platform engineers — coach, unblock, and help them grow * Own code review across the platform domain — ensure quality, share knowledge, and maintain consistency * Keep platform velocity high — prioritize work, remove blockers, and ensure the team ships reliably * Mentor and develop the team — create an environment where engineers do their best work * Support the wider engineering team — be the go-to person for infrastructure questions, unblock developers, and create self-service tooling * Collaborate with product and engineering leadership — translate business needs into infrastructure strategy * Contribute to hiring — help interview and assess platform engineering candidates as the team grows
Must-Have Experience
* 7+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles * Team leadership experience — formally or informally leading a small infrastructure/platform team (mentoring, 1:1s, technical direction) * Strong cloud infrastructure expertise — compute, networking, identity management, queuing, monitoring, storage (we use AWS primarily) * Container orchestration in production — cluster operations, package management, debugging, resource management (we use Kubernetes) * Infrastructure-as-Code at scale — writing, reviewing, and managing IaC with proper state management and modularization (we use Terraform) * CI/CD pipeline design — deployment automation, testing integration, and deployment strategies (blue-green, canary) * Linux systems administration — comfortable debugging at the OS level * Monitoring and observability — setting up alerting, dashboards, log aggregation, and incident response * Security mindset — experience with access control best practices, network security, secrets management * Strong communication — able to explain infrastructure decisions to non-infra engineers, present technical strategies to leadership, and mentor effectively * Reliable internet and hardware, able to work ≥35h/week with decent overlap with UTC+8 (Singapore time)
Nice-to-Have
* Multi-cloud experience (GCP, Firebase, or similar alongside AWS) * GitOps deployment experience (e.g. ArgoCD or similar) * Event streaming operations and tuning (e.g. Kafka) * Compliance frameworks — ISO 27001, SOC 2, or similar * Cost optimization — experience reducing cloud spend without sacrificing reliability * Pen testing coordination or security audit experience * Experience at a fintech or financial services company * Experience with multi-region or multi-market infrastructure * Previous experience growing a platform/infrastructure team (hiring, onboarding, defining team processes)
What We Use Today
Here's what we work with today — familiarity is a bonus, not a requirement:
* Cloud: AWS (primary) + GCP/Firebase * Orchestration: Kubernetes (EKS), Helm, ArgoCD * IaC: Terraform * CI/CD: GitHub Actions * Messaging: Kafka, SQS * Monitoring: Grafana, Sentry, CloudWatch * Security: Prowler, Trivy, SonarCloud, Cloudflare WAF * Backend: Node.js/TypeScript, Firebase Cloud Functions * Frontend: Angular, Ionic/Capacitor
Why Join
* Real ownership — you'll shape the infrastructure and the team that builds it * Leadership trajectory — clear path from Platform Lead to Head of Platform/Infrastructure as the company scales * Small team, big impact — a growing platform team, no layers of bureaucracy * Growth trajectory — rapidly expanding across Southeast Asia and Africa * Modern stack — container orchestration, IaC, GitOps, event-driven architecture * Fully remote — work from anywhere with good overlap to Asia timezones #EMEA #APJ * Competitive salary + meaningful equity (early-stage package)
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