Position: DevOps/Infrastructure Architect
Relevant Experience: 10+ years
Type: Full Time
Work Mode: Hybrid
Salary: Competitive
Industry: Banking / Fintech – Open Banking Product
Location: TechQuartier, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
About us
Banfico is a growth-stage SaaS fintech involved in designing and launching innovative Verification of Payee & Open Banking solutions. We are a bootstrapped profitable organisation with corporate presence in Europe, LATAM and the Middle East. Our portfolio of clients contains more than 200 financial institutions including some large banks.
We are looking for an experienced DevOps / Infrastructure Architect with a strong background in enterprise infrastructure and cloud-native environments. This is a senior-level, client-facing role requiring both technical depth and the ability to confidently advise financial institutions. The role focuses on delivery, infrastructure architecture, and technical leadership – not just internally, but also as a trusted voice in client interactions.
Roles & Responsibility
* Lead architecture and implementation of scalable, secure, and automated infrastructure across cloud and hybrid environments (primarily OpenShift, Kubernetes, Terraform)
* Act as the lead DevOps advisor in customer-facing engagements, ensuring alignment of infrastructure with business and compliance requirements
* Confidently represent technical decisions in front of clients, pushing back where needed and recommending best practices
* Drive delivery of client infrastructure solutions, from requirements gathering through to implementation and maintenance
* Identify and resolve inefficiencies in deployment, infrastructure management, and cross-team collaboration
* Advocate for and implement infrastructure as code (IaC) and DevSecOps principles
* Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure seamless delivery of Account Verification and Open Banking solutions
* Support and review technical documentation, ensuring consistency and quality across internal and client-facing materials
* Contribute to RFPs and client onboarding discussions as needed
* Provide architectural oversight and mentorship to engineers, helping to build a stronger technical foundation in a rapidly growing team
* Support post-deployment operations and help shape best practices for reliability, observability, and performance tuning
Required skills & experience
* Deep hands-on expertise in infrastructure architecture and DevOps, with experience across cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
* Proficient in Kubernetes, OpenShift, Terraform, and Ansible
* Strong experience with security and compliance (SOC2, ISO 27001), secrets management (Vault), and logging/monitoring (ELK Stack, Elastic.io)
* Demonstrated ability to lead infrastructure delivery projects and interact effectively with senior stakeholders at client organisations
* Track record of mentoring teams and improving engineering practices
* Fluent in written and spoken English; other European languages are a plus
* Previous experience working with financial institutions or regulated environments is preferred
* In-depth knowledge of certificate and key management, including the integration and operation of Hardware Security Modules (HSMs)
* Practical experience with SIEM tools for real-time monitoring, security analysis, and incident detection
Additional Expectations
* Hands-on, pragmatic problem-solver with the ability to cut through complexity and deliver results
* Comfortable balancing delivery responsibilities with high-level strategic input
* Familiar with architectural and operational challenges of multi-cluster and hybrid environments
* Able to contribute to technical documentation and optionally assist in coordinating efforts for RFP responses
Benefits
* Opportunity to progress in the role as our organisation grows
* Work in a recession-proof, disruptive business segment
* Coworking workplace (https://techquartier.com/) is a vibrant startup friendly ecosystem
* 30 days of vacation
* Access to unlimited soft drinks in the office
Other details
* Banfico doesn’t sponsor work permit/visa for this role.