Introduction 

Here at Fnality, we are powering the future of finance, together: combining best in class technology with free-flowing creativity, and expertise that can make business better for everyone. There are no precedents for what we’re doing. With you on our side, we’ll be setting new ones every day. 

In a complex world, we are here to bring clarity and make positive change.  Fnality Services is central to each Fnality Payment System’s (FnPS) effective and resilient operation and provides an efficient common service platform for the secure global delivery of settlement operations. 

Position Summary 

The Senior Platform Engineer will play a key role in the strategic design, hands-on delivery, and oversight of workstreams relating to Cloud Platform, DevOps, Security and Network support for the Fnality Payment System. As the SME, this person will be tasked with auditing the current technology ecosystem and making recommendations which future-proof the Platform model to support long term business growth. Having worked in a similar industry, the Senior Platform Engineer will have the knowledge and experience, basing their decision making around considerations relating to the storage of highly sensitive data. 

We have 1 position to fill for this profile and we’re looking for a candidate both established and looking for the role to step-up into. 

Role & Responsibilities 

• Develops and enhances the platform using Infrastructure-as-Code principles, with a strong emphasis on maintainability, reusability, and simplicity in design and implementation Deploy and support Fnality highly resilient and scalable technology products and platforms to customers. 

• Demonstrates strong security awareness, with the ability to identify potential vulnerabilities and proactively remediate security risks. 

• Reviews technical designs and provides well-founded input or challenges assumptions based on practical experience and industry best practices. 

• Using your extensive experience working on infrastructure and CI/CD using Cloud Native best practices to help Fnality build platforms and systems that are operable, reliable and scalable. 

• Deploy and support platforms to defined security architectural technology principles, standards, blueprints, and building blocks. 

• Working with the wider team to create, maintain and deliver against an organised and cross organisation aligned backlog of delivery and support operations. 

• Work collaboratively as part of the wider operations team from a platform operations perspective including rolling out of platform changes and incident management. 

• Ensure IT compliance certifications and standards are gained, rolled out, adhered to, and upheld. 

• Mentoring, pairing, and developing other members of the team. 

• Application performance monitoring and event management. 

• Working closely with customers (Tier 1 Banks, Central Banks) on operational support issues and ensuring 24×7 availability of Fnality platforms. 
   

Skills & Experience 

• Experience working as a Cloud/DevOps/Platform/Infrastructure Senior or Lead Engineer as it relates to the seniority and complexity of the role.
• Experience of successfully delivering secure, large-scale projects as cloud solutions.
• Experience managing best practise standards, administrating and troubleshooting cloud computing platforms, using AWS Experience in supporting the development of DevOps pipelines.
• Experience in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Experience with containerisation and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Flux, Helm).
• Knowledge of scripting languages to support automation.
• Strong understanding of network and security concepts.
• Experience working with SSO integration, using SAML/OpenID, Azure AD, Okta or other.
• Experience working with the AWS platform and tooling; including but not limited to AWS Security Hub, Inspector, Guard Duty, Config, WAF, SSM/SSM Docs, CloudHSM, and Landing Zone architecture.
• Experience working to Cyber Essentials guidelines, and Cyber Essentials Plus verification
• Experience of working within NIST frameworks (800-53; 800-171; 800-30).
• Experience working to ISO:27001 accreditation.
• Strategic, forward-thinking approach with a passion for innovation and change
• Willingness to get involved with a multitude of work and changing priorities in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.
• Comfortable working with limited resources and tight deadlines.
• Attention to detail.
• Ability to see the bigger picture.
• Knowledge in majority of the following tech stack:
• CI-CD, e.g: Gitlab, Github Action
• AWS multi-account structure
• AWS – EC2, ELB, S3, Security Hub, Config etc
• Kubernetes:
  • Flux 2 – GitOps
  • Helm
  • AWS EKS
• Prometheus, Grafana, ELK
• Microservices Architecture
• PKI / secret management
• Java and Golang
• Hyperledger Besu

Ideally you will have (desirable but not essential) 

• Experience in a Senior Platform Engineer role adhering to regulatory compliance and information security management frameworks (e.g. IS027001, NIST, etc) and as of late had chances to flex your competency, ideally in an agile, fast growing scale-up. 

• Possess one or more the following certifications: Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), System Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP). 

• Platform Engineering expertise (e.g. service, design, engineering) coupled with an understanding of financial services and relevant regulations and laws. 

• Knowledge of and/or interest in blockchain, security operations, financial services back-office processes, systems and products. 

However, if your experience isn’t an exact match, please apply if you are interested and we can see if there is a potential opportunity for you with Fnality. 

Why should you join Fnality? 

We employ curious individuals who thrive working in a fast-paced and constantly changing environment, who work best when empowered to drive their own work, and who are not afraid to fail fast and learn quicker. 

You will be an analytical thinker who is able to look at tasks and understand the most efficient way to achieve the desired outcome. You will be vigilantly outcomes-focussed and fully agile in your approach to working. You will have an insatiable desire to learn, adept at picking up new challenges and giving it a go. You will want to deliver as much as learn and you will understand how important the power of the team is.  

A bit more about us 

Digital transformation is changing our lives, work and businesses. While other sectors evolve however, financial markets remain slow, fragmented and siloed. What the world needs now is a future-facing financial system for the digital age. 

At Fnality, we have been speaking – and listening – to the real users of today’s financial systems. From businesses to banks, there is a clear, collective ambition for a simpler, faster, safer and more resilient payment system; one that can move and settle money quickly and efficiently, with minimised risk and much more transparency. 

Fnality Global Payments 

We are building a new payment system that will enable tokenised, peer-to-peer markets.  

Fnality Global Payments (FnGP) will comprise a series of national systems, each regulated in its home jurisdiction. We call each of these a Fnality Payment System (FnPS)  

In each payment system, a Fnality settlement asset will act as the settlement/payment asset for any Payment (P), Delivery v, Payment (DvP) or payment vs. payment (PvP) need. 

FnGP are underpinned by Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT). The nature of DLT is such that it enables FnGP to:  

• Operate a true peer-to-peer market 

• Allow for immediate settlement 

• Interoperate across business platforms and jurisdictions 

The key benefits of the above are:  

• Reduced counter-party and credit risk  

• Reduced operational risk  

• Efficient liquidity management  

• An ability to move resources from risk mitigation to business growth 

Eligibility 

This role is a UK based role and you must be eligible to work in the UK. Please note we cannot sponsor visas for this role. 

How will we use the information about you?  

We will use your personal information to process your application, to enable us to assess your suitability for a role and for other legitimate business purposes such as improving our sites and talent management practices. We may share your data with third parties to achieve these purposes. We will not use or share your information for marketing purposes.  

We will take appropriate security measures to safeguard your information in accordance with data protection legislation.  

If you would like further information about how your information may be processed by us, please contact us at privacy@fnality.org.