DevOps Engineer

Wittix is a fast-growing fintech company developing a unified platform for payments, acquiring, and financial tools for businesses. Together with our sister company PayPlus, we build complex, high-performance systems used by thousands of businesses in Israel and across Europe. We are looking for an experienced, hands-on DevOps Engineer to manage, optimize, and scale our cloud infrastructure. You will work with AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, cloud security, and microservices observability, helping us build scalable, reliable, and secure systems in a PCI-DSS-regulated environment. Working closely with our CISO, Software Architect, and development teams, you will play a key role in supporting our microservices architecture and infrastructure growth. Key Responsibilities Design, manage, and optimize AWS cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes (EKS) environments. Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform). Automate deployments, infrastructure provisioning, and operational processes. Manage relational databases (Amazon RDS, MySQL, PostgreSQL) and MongoDB infrastructure, ensuring performance, availability, and reliability. Implement and maintain microservices observability using Datadog or equivalent tools, including APM, distributed tracing, metrics, centralized logging, dashboards, and alerting. Implement cloud security best practices, including IAM, secrets management, encryption, and Kubernetes hardening. Integrate automated security checks into CI/CD pipelines. Troubleshoot complex production issues and participate in incident response and root-cause analysis. Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, capacity planning, and cloud cost optimization. Support PCI-DSS compliance, vulnerability remediation, and security audits. Collaborate with development teams to support and improve our microservices architecture. Requirements 5+ years of hands-on DevOps experience – mandatory. Strong production experience with AWS – mandatory. Strong hands-on Kubernetes (EKS) and Docker experience – mandatory. Experience designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines. Experience with Terraform or equivalent Infrastructure as Code tools. Hands-on experience with relational databases, including Amazon RDS (MySQL and PostgreSQL), monitoring, backups, performance tuning, and high availability. Experience with observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK , including microservices monitoring, APM, distributed tracing, logging, and alerting. Strong understanding of networking, including VPC, DNS, load balancers, routing, and security groups. Experience with cloud security, IAM, secrets management, and infrastructure hardening. Experience with production troubleshooting, incident management, and root-cause analysis. Strong Linux administration and scripting skills (Bash/Python). Ability to work independently, take ownership, and collaborate effectively with development teams. Nice to Have Experience with PCI-DSS, fintech, or payment systems. Experience with DevSecOps tools and automated security scanning. GitOps (Argo CD / Flux), microservices, and service mesh. Experience with MongoDB infrastructure. Familiarity with SIEM, CSPM, and vulnerability management tools. AWS or Kubernetes certifications.