DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer 

Location: London or New York - in office 4 days a week

About Lorum

Global payments are not broken. Incentives are. Clearing has been deprioritized inside balance sheet driven institutions whose models rely on lending and interest. When liquidity takes priority over settlement, payments slow and certainty drops. The same financial institutions that distort clearing as providers are disadvantaged as users. They are forced into fragmented setups, inconsistent rails, duplicated compliance, and unpredictable timelines. Stablecoin shortcuts and treasury pooling treat symptoms at the surface, but almost no one is rebuilding the underlying infrastructure in each market. 

Rebuilding clearing from the ground up

We are rebuilding clearing as its own specialist function. We act as a clearing and transaction banking partner for regulated institutions, with treasury built into the core so liquidity, settlement, and reconciliation sit in one controlled system.

Our platform unifies global and local licenses, direct central bank clearing, and access to domestic rails. We allow clients to open named customer accounts in every market we operate, collecting funds and paying out through a single network while retaining full ownership of their customer relationships. Market expansion becomes as simple as one correspondent relationship, not hundreds.

Why Lorum

Joining Lorum means contributing to one of the most ambitious clearing infrastructure projects in global finance. You will help shape settlement systems that perform under real regulatory standards and institutional volumes. You will build for regulated institutions that rely on precision, predictable timelines, and regulatory integrity. It is about working across currencies, markets, and supervisory frameworks to deliver reliable, final settlement.

Role purpose

Build, operate and improve the cloud infrastructure and CI/CD systems that power Lorum’s clearing platform. Partner with backend, security, and product teams to deliver secure, observable, and reliable production services with strong automation and ownership.

Key Responsibilities

• Infrastructure as Code

  • Design, implement and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform. Manage Terraform workflows and state best practices.

  • Operate and maintain Atlantis or other Git-driven Terraform automation for safe, auditable infra changes.

• CI/CD & developer workflows

  • Build and maintain GitHub Workflows / Actions pipelines for build, test, release and infra deployments.

  • Improve developer DX: fast, reliable pipelines, automated testing, pre-merge checks, and environment provisioning.

• Reliability, observability & operations

  • Run production services: participate in on-call, incident response, postmortems and capacity planning.

  • Instrument systems (metrics, logs, tracing) and use telemetry to drive reliability improvements.

• Security & compliance

  • Work with Security and GRC to meet SOC 2 / ISO 27001 and similar requirements: secure deployments, secrets management, IAM policies, and encryption at rest/in transit.

• Automation & tooling

  • Automate repetitive operational tasks, build self-service platforms for developers, and contribute internal tooling and runbooks.

• Collaboration & delivery

  • Partner with backend engineers (see pages 1–3 for team expectations) to define deployment boundaries, APIs, and operational responsibilities.

  • Review infra changes, mentor peers, and help maintain high engineering standards.

Ideal candidate

Must-Haves 

• 3+ years experience operating cloud infrastructure (AWS).

• Strong Terraform experience: writing modules, state management, workspaces.

• Practical experience with Atlantis (or equivalent) for Git-driven Terraform automation.

• Hands-on experience building CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Workflows / Actions.

• Solid Linux, networking, and container fundamentals (Docker); familiarity with Kubernetes or ECS.

• Strong testing and automation mindset: automated infra tests, integration tests, and pre-deploy checks.

• Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus/Grafana, Datadog, ELK, or similar).

• Clear communicator; comfortable driving cross-functional operational work and incidents.

• Security and compliance awareness (IAM, VPC, KMS, secrets management).

  Nice-to-Haves 

• Experience in fintech, payments, or regulated environments (mentioned as desirable on pages 2–3).

• Experience with PostgreSQL operations, stream processing, or event-driven architectures.

• Familiarity with policy-as-code (OPA, Sentinel) and IaC security scanning.

• Experience with Terraform Cloud/Enterprise, Terragrunt, or similar.

• Prior SRE or platform engineering experience building developer self-service portals.

Benefits

• Opportunity to travel (if applicable)

• Flexible vacation policy

• Private Healthcare

• Employee stock ownership (ESOP)

• Flexible working and autonomy

• Pay it forward days - we offer 2 annual pay it forward days where you can take time to volunteer for a charitable cause that is important to you.

• Wellness days - we believe you can only work your best when you feel your best, and we know working at Lorum is intense, so we offer 3 wellness days every quarter where you can take time to re-energise.