cloud engineer in fintech

Checkout.com provides payment infrastructure that powers digital experiences for businesses worldwide. Its platform processes over 10 billion transactions annually for more than one billion global shoppers, supporting online purchases, subscriptions, bookings, and other digital services.

• Take ownership of large-scale platform projects from architecture through Terraform implementation and production delivery;
• Design scalable, secure, and cost-optimised platform solutions;
• Build platform primitives that product teams use to deliver secure services;
• Refine requirements and shape the platform’s technical direction with Engineering Managers and architects;
• Document significant technical decisions as ADRs;
• Act as the Subject Matter Expert for team-owned services;
• Provide advanced operational support and ensure high availability for global payment systems;
• Produce exemplary code and documentation;
• Spread engineering best practices and standards across the group;
• Manage technical dependencies inside and outside the team’s pillar;
• Optimise delivery speed and business outcomes;
• Help shape the group’s culture through efficiency and professional excellence;
• Explore and implement AI-driven automation for infrastructure efficiency and team productivity.

• 5+ Years of experience in cloud engineering roles with significant AWS expertise;
• Advanced hands-on experience designing and operating enterprise-scale AWS production infrastructure;
• Experience with multi-account AWS architectures, Control Tower, Organizations, SCPs, IAM, KMS, compute, storage, and security services;
• Proven experience delivering resilient multi-region architectures;
• Production experience with Azure, including landing zones, VNet architectures, Entra ID, resource management, and governance;
• Expert-level Terraform skills, including reusable modules, secure state management, and disciplined code review;
• Experience with Git-based workflows and CI/CD, including Spacelift;
• Ability to use Python or similar languages for automation;
• Strong cloud networking skills, including VPC and VNet design, hub-and-spoke, Transit Gateway or Cloud WAN, DNS, PrivateLink, routing, and private connectivity;
• Experience running containerised workloads in production, ideally with EKS or AKS;
• Understanding of Kubernetes cluster lifecycle, workload deployment patterns, and production operations at scale;
• Experience operating in regulated environments with change control, least privilege, and auditability;
• Experience with observability and operational measurement;
• Ability to mentor peers, clarify ambiguous problems, create technical plans, and improve code and review standards;
• Strong incident resolution and root-cause analysis skills;
• A degree in Computer Science or a related field is not required;
• Nice to have: PCI DSS familiarity.

• Hybrid working model with three days per week in the office;
• Work in London, England, United Kingdom;
• The company has 20 offices across six continents, with London as its headquarters;
• No conditions specified.