Dev‑Ops Engineer

About Saaf Finance

Saaf Finance is building the AI workforce for the mortgage industry , reimagining how loans are underwritten and processed. Backed by leading financial institutions, we’re scaling fast and hiring a Dev‑Ops Engineer to build and run the infrastructure behind one of the most data‑ and automation‑intensive platforms in fintech.

What you’ll do

• Provision & manage AWS : Design, deploy, and maintain VPCs, Lambda, RDS, S3, IAM using IaC (Terraform or CloudFormation).
• CI/CD at scale : Build and optimize GitHub Actions pipelines for backend and frontend; enable zero‑downtime releases.
• Containers & serverless : Operate ECS/Fargate and Lambda workloads with safe rollout strategies.
• Observability : Implement production‑grade monitoring, logging, and alerting (CloudWatch, Prometheus, ELK or similar).
• Automation : Script infra tasks, feature flagging, and environment provisioning.
• Security : Enforce cloud security best practices across IAM, network segmentation, and secrets (SSM / Secrets Manager).
• Data platform support : Support ETL jobs, Snowflake , and dbt workflows used by data/analytics.
• Collaboration : Work with Engineering, Data, and QA; ship reliably using Notion and Linear for coordination.

Requirements

• 4+ years in DevOps/SRE or similar.
• Deep AWS experience and strong IaC (Terraform preferred).
• Strong CI/CD expertise with GitHub Actions .
• Hands‑on with containers and serverless architectures.
• Monitoring/logging/incident management experience.
• Scripting in Bash/Python/Node.js .
• Solid grasp of cloud security (least privilege, segmentation, secrets).
• Experience with Snowflake and data engineering workflows (ETL, dbt).
• Exposure to Kubernetes and orchestration tools; understanding of event‑driven pipelines (Step Functions, Temporal).

Bonus skills

• Event‑driven workflow orchestration ( Step Functions, Temporal, Airflow, Prefect ).
• Familiarity with agentic workflow patterns (API‑based decisions, async tasks, dynamic routing).
• Infra for AI‑powered automation (latency, autoscaling, cost‑efficient compute for high throughput).
• Secure secrets/config systems for agentic processes (API keys, model tokens, external creds).
• Observability for multi‑step workflows (distributed tracing, structured logging, audit‑friendly pipelines).

Why Saaf Finance

• Competitive salary. High ownership from day one; direct impact on core systems and products.
• Remote‑first with flexibility on hours and location; fast decisions, minimal bureaucracy.
• Work closely with founders and cross‑functional teams; clear expectations, regular feedback, strong growth support.
• Solve real problems in a complex, high‑impact industry.

Location: Remote (India)