Hiire is helping Paynest find the right DevOps Engineer for this crucial mission.
You'll be their first hire whose only job is infrastructure. Not one project among many - the whole platform, yours.
Company Overview
Paynest is a fintech on a mission: corporate cards, supplier payments, and employee expenses that give finance teams real-time control, 0% FX, cashback, fraud detection, and automated accounting. Behind it all is AWS and Kubernetes - and they need someone to own it.
Sick of huge teams where impact and ownership get watered down? Here, your work is visible. When deployments are smooth, that's you. When monitoring catches a problem before customers notice, that's you. You'll set the standards - for observability, for reliability, for security - instead of simply inheriting someone else's.
What you'll do
Own the platform. AWS infrastructure and Kubernetes across multiple regions, managed as code so every environment is reproducible and reviewed.
Make shipping boring. CI/CD pipelines that let engineers deploy small changes often with safe rollouts and easy rollbacks.
See everything. Build monitoring, logging, and alerting from the ground up. Respond to incidents, run blameless post-mortems, define disaster recovery and actually test it.
Keep us safe. Least-privilege IAM, secrets management, KMS encryption, network hardening. Produce evidence for ISO 27001 and DORA - Paynest is a regulated fintech, and that's part of the craft, not an obstacle.
Run the data. Databases with backups, cross-region replication, and restore drills that prove they work.
What You'll Bring
3+ years running production infrastructure, hands-on with Terraform and core AWS services (networking, compute, IAM, databases, storage, monitoring, etc.)
Comfortable on Linux, with Python or Bash at your fingertips
Thrive in early-stage startup ambiguity - no fully defined specs, evolving requirements, small team, real stakes
Curious about how systems fail, and driven to make them reliable and secure
You write things down: runbooks, decisions, post-incident notes
Bonus points: Kubernetes, Docker, GitLab, monitoring tools, mobile release pipelines (Expo EAS, App Store, Google Play), comfortable with Portuguese and English, with Spanish being a plus. But honestly, learning ability and easy to work with mindset matter more than any specific tool.
What we offer
Small team. Real ownership. Visible impact. You'll shape how a regulated fintech designs, secures, and operates its cloud infrastructure - end to end - from day one.
Competitive salary package
Health insurance
Flexible Hybrid work in Lisbon or Porto (once per week)
No middle-management
Seems interesting? Apply now and let's have a chat.