About the Company
At Redpin, we simplify life’s most important payments. Buying property overseas can be stressful—especially when it comes to moving money. Through our Currencies Direct and TorFX brands, we’ve been helping customers do exactly that for over 25 years.
With recent investment, we are building a new generation of digital products and services that make international real estate payments simpler, faster, and more transparent.
As part of Redpin 2.0, we are transforming from a horizontal FX platform into a verticalized, embedded software company, positioning ourselves as the global solution for real estate payments.
About the Role
We are seeking a Staff Engineer – Cloud to provide senior technical leadership in building and operating scalable cloud platforms. This role focuses on AWS infrastructure, CI/CD platforms, cloud governance, cost optimization (FinOps), and observability, ensuring platforms are secure, reliable, compliant, and cost-efficient at scale.
What You'll Do
Cloud Architecture & Infrastructure
Design, build, and operate highly available, secure, and scalable AWS infrastructure
Own cloud architecture across compute, networking, storage, identity, and security
Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and/or CloudFormation
Define reference architectures, standards, and reusable infrastructure modules
AWS Governance & Compliance
Design and enforce AWS governance frameworks using AWS Organizations and multi-account strategies
Implement and manage Landing Zones, AWS Control Tower, SCPs, IAM guardrails, and account baselines
Ensure compliance with security, regulatory, and organizational policies
Define tagging standards, naming conventions, and account-level controls
Partner with security and compliance teams to maintain audit-ready cloud environments
CI/CD & Platform Engineering
Architect and standardize CI/CD pipelines for cloud-native and microservices workloads (preferably using GitLab or GitHub)
Embed security, compliance, and quality gates (SAST, DAST, container scanning, policy-as-code)
Enable modern deployment strategies such as blue-green, canary, and rolling deployments
Improve pipeline performance, reliability, and developer experience
Cloud Cost Optimization (FinOps)
Drive AWS cost optimization and FinOps practices across platforms
Implement cost visibility, allocation, and chargeback/showback models
Optimize cloud spend using right-sizing, autoscaling, Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, and storage lifecycle policies
Define and monitor budgets, alerts, and cost KPIs
Promote cost-aware architecture and engineering practices
Observability & Reliability
Design and implement end-to-end observability using metrics, logs, and distributed tracing
Standardize monitoring, alerting, and dashboards across services
Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
Improve system resilience through automation, self-healing, and proactive alerting
Lead incident response, post-incident reviews, and continuous reliability improvements
DevOps & SRE Practices
Promote DevOps and SRE best practices across engineering teams
Reduce operational toil through automation and platform improvements
Ensure systems meet availability, performance, and reliability objectives
Technical Leadership
Act as a technical leader and mentor across teams
Review architecture, infrastructure, and CI/CD designs
Influence platform, governance, and cloud strategy without direct authority
Collaborate closely with product, security, and enterprise architecture teams
What You’ll Need
Strong hands-on experience with AWS (EC2, EKS, ECS, VPC, IAM, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, Route53)
Deep expertise in AWS governance and multi-account strategies
Proven experience with CI/CD tools (GitLab, GitHub Actions, etc.)
Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS)
Solid understanding of cloud security, networking, and IAM
Experience driving FinOps and cloud cost optimization
Strong background in observability and reliability engineering
AWS Control Tower, SCPs, AWS Config, CloudTrail, Guard Duty
Policy-as-code tools (OPA, Sentinel, AWS Config Rules)
Observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, Open Telemetry, ELK, Datadog)
Service mesh, API gateways, and advanced AWS networking
Programming or scripting skills in Python, Go, or Bash
Bonus Points
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional
Familiarity with AI/ML concepts and cloud-native AI services
Exposure to AWS AI/ML services such as Bedrock, SageMaker, Textract, or Comprehend
Collaboration & Organization-Level Expectations
Cross-Team Collaboration
Partner with application, platform, security, data, and SRE teams to deliver scalable cloud solutions
Act as a trusted technical advisor across multiple engineering teams
Collaborate with product, architecture, and compliance stakeholders to align cloud platforms with business goals
Influence architectural and platform decisions without direct authority
Align cloud initiatives with organizational priorities and roadmaps
Contribute to long-term cloud strategy, including governance, cost optimization, and platform evolution
Advocate for developer productivity and operational excellence
What Success Looks Like
Secure, compliant, and well-governed AWS environments
Measurable cloud cost reduction with strong cost visibility
Highly observable, reliable, and resilient platforms
Fast, secure, and standardized CI/CD pipelines
Strong technical influence across engineering teams
We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where we connect the dots for international property payments. If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let’s move the world of PropTech forward, together.
Redpin, Currencies Direct and TorFX are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, colour, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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