We are supporting a specialized VC firm in financial services, with offices in New York, London, and Berlin, focused on building, backing, and buying technology-enabled financial and business services companies. The firm is incubating a new insurtech venture aimed at digitizing life-insurance distribution across North America and expanding into wealth-advisory use cases.
What you'll own
A monorepo structure with clear conventions for all services.A fully working example service that shows developers how everything should be built and deployed.Terraform modules for all infrastructure (networking, compute, storage, IAM).CI/CD pipelines that define the standard path from build → test → deploy.Docker image standards and ECS/Fargate deployment patterns.Secret management (IAM, KMS, SSM/Secrets Manager), you control and maintain secure keys.Baseline monitoring, logging, metrics, and alerting for all services.Documentation and runbooks that make onboarding and scaling easy.
Requirements
AWS expert: VPC, IAM, ALB, CloudWatch, S3, RDS/DynamoDB, Secrets Manager.Terraform expert: authored modules, complex state mgmt, multi-environment design.CI/CD builder: pipelines designed or rebuilt from scratch (GitHub Actions preferred).Docker + ECS: deployed containers with autoscaling, health checks, log routing.Ability to set up basic monitoring, logs, metrics, and alerts for ECS-based services (CloudWatch preferred).Experience maintaining a monorepo or creating deployment boilerplate/templates.Strong experience with secret and key management (IAM policies, KMS, SSM).
Nice to have
Experience with Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana, or CloudWatch dashboards.Background in security hardening, IAM least-privilege, and image scanning.Prior startup or high-growth experience.Cost optimization experience on AWS.
Additional Information
1-year contract with extensions based on performanceCompetitive USD hourly rates aligned to experienceRemote in Latin America (EST)
