[Remote] AWS Devops Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Blankfactor delivers technology solutions for global enterprises in regulated industries, including banking and financial services. The Senior Solutions Architect will lead governance-aligned modernization of Finacle-based wire payment platforms across AWS and on-premises Red Hat OpenShift, while ensuring security, compliance, resiliency, and audit readiness. The role collaborates with business, engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, risk, and compliance stakeholders to define and operationalize hybrid cloud architecture.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end solution architecture across application, data, integration, infrastructure, and security layers
- Lead the modernization and re-architecture strategy for Finacle-integrated wire platforms, including legacy decomposition, API enablement, and hybrid cloud adoption
- Design scalable, secure, and highly available architectures aligned with enterprise resiliency standards, including clearly defined RTO and RPO objectives
- Lead architecture design across Amazon EKS and on-premises Red Hat OpenShift, ensuring secure connectivity and workload portability
- Define secure hybrid networking, DNS resolution, and cross-environment routing strategies aligned with enterprise governance
- Establish secure service-to-service communication patterns, including mTLS and service mesh strategies where appropriate
- Ensure architecture supports regulatory reporting, transaction monitoring, AML, and sanctions integration requirements
- Produce and guide architecture artifacts through Architecture Review Board, Risk, Security, and Control governance forums
- Develop and maintain regulatory traceability matrices mapping business requirements, control objectives, regulatory obligations, and technical implementations
- Support regulatory exams, audits, and remediation programs when required
- Provide architectural oversight of Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD pipelines, and DevSecOps controls
- Ensure transaction integrity and data consistency in distributed environments using idempotent processing, resilient workflow orchestration, and failure recovery patterns
- Oversee documentation of end-to-end wire transaction flows, data lineage, integration points, and operational readiness artifacts
- Act as a senior technical advisor, translating complex architectural and regulatory requirements into clear technical strategies
- Collaborate across engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, risk, and compliance teams to ensure alignment with enterprise standards
Skills
- 10+ years of experience in Solutions Architecture or Enterprise Architecture within regulated financial environments
- Proven experience leading modernization initiatives for wire payments or mission-critical financial platforms
- Strong expertise in AWS cloud services, including EKS, encryption, key management, and secure hybrid integration patterns
- Hands-on architectural experience with Red Hat OpenShift in enterprise environments
- Experience designing hybrid cloud architectures balancing security, compliance, performance, and resiliency
- Experience implementing high-availability, disaster recovery, and multi-region architectures with clearly defined RTO and RPO objectives
- Familiarity with wire payment ecosystems such as Fedwire, SWIFT, and CHIPS
- Strong experience in architecture governance, regulatory control mapping, risk integration, and audit support
- Experience guiding architecture through structured stage-gate governance and Permit to Operate processes
- Familiarity with regulatory frameworks such as OCC, Federal Reserve, and Sarbanes-Oxley Act
- Experience with Finacle 11.x or similar core banking platforms supporting wire payments
- Experience supporting ISO 20022 transformation initiatives
- Experience designing high-throughput, low-latency financial transaction platforms
- TOGAF or equivalent Enterprise Architecture certification
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