DevOps Engineer

We're looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our team and help us build the secure, scalable infrastructure that underpins Ctrl Alt's mission to redefine asset ownership. You'll play a key role in ensuring our platform is fast, reliable, and capable of supporting the needs of asset managers, fund administrators, and institutional investors around the world.

Working closely with our engineering teams, you'll design and maintain cloud infrastructure, improve our CI/CD pipelines, and enhance observability so we can ship high-quality features quickly and confidently. You'll bring your initiative as well as your technical skills to solve real operational challenges, ensuring our systems are resilient, cost-efficient, and ready to scale as we grow., * Design and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure (AWS) for our production and staging environments

• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines to support rapid, high-quality deployments
• Monitor and improve system availability, performance, and cost-efficiency
• Implement and manage observability tools (logging, metrics, tracing)
• Enhance infrastructure-as-code using AWS CDK and related tools
• Collaborate with engineers to streamline development workflows and deployment strategies
• Champion DevOps best practices across the company

Do you have experience in Terraform?, * 3+ years of experience in a DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure-focused engineering role

• Strong experience with AWS services (EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, IAM, Cognito)
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (especially AWS CDK, but Terraform or similar also a plus)
• Hands-on experience with Docker and container orchestration (ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes)
• Experience setting up CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or similar tools
• Familiarity with monitoring and alerting tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Sentry, DataDog)
• A security-first mindset when designing and managing infrastructure

Nice to haves:

• Experience working in regulated or high-trust environments
• Knowledge of zero-downtime deployment patterns and rollback strategies
• Exposure to Next.js, Node.js, or React-based applications from an ops perspective
• Understanding of secrets management and zero-trust networking

• Generous stock options, with equity plans that let you share in the company's growth
• Private health insurance - we offer a premium private health insurance scheme (UK/IRE only)
• We offer 24 days annual leave plus public holidays, with flexibility for additional time off
• IT and office equipment to support your work, including a MacBook, displays and accessories
• Salary sacrifice scheme and financial tools to help you with your personal finances, covering childcare, groceries, tech, pensions, bikes and subscriptions (UK only)
• A state of the art central office in Belfast or Dundalk
• An annual learning and personal development budget for training, exams, certifications, qualifications or anything else which helps you progress at work and your career
• The opportunity to work in a high-growth startup where your contribution matters and shapes an industry
• Exposure to collaborative working and direct knowledge sharing from experts across financial services, blockchain and fintech

Interview Process:

• Stage 1: Initial interview
• Stage 2: Technical Interview
• Stage 3: Final interview with the CTO

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

• Additional leave
• Company events
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Financial planning services
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Private dental insurance
• Private medical insurance
• Referral programme
• Work from home

Combining groundbreaking technology and expert financial engineering, Ctrl Alt is a B2B infrastructure solution provider that makes structuring and investing in alternative asset classes efficient, cost-effective, and accessible. Since launching in 2022, Ctrl Alt has established itself as a leader and expert in the space with over $325m of assets tokenized. With offices in the UK, Ireland and the UAE, the Ctrl Alt team is composed of financial and product experts including alumni from Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, UBS and Revolut. The business is backed by leading VCs including MiddleGame Ventures and Molten.