DevOps Engineer – SAS AML Platform

About the role

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to support our SAS Anti‑Money Laundering (AML) platform. The role focuses on ensuring platform reliability, automating deployments and maintaining a secure, highly available environment for financial crime detection.

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement and manage CI/CD pipelines for SAS AML and related applications.
• Support configuration, optimisation and enablement of the SAS AML platform.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external vendors (e.g., SAS, Binary) to integrate and stabilise systems.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and environment setup using Infrastructure as Code tools.
• Manage hybrid‑cloud and on‑premise environments hosting AML workloads.
• Monitor system performance, availability and health with enterprise monitoring tools.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory, security and financial governance standards.
• Troubleshoot production incidents, perform root‑cause analysis and implement preventative solutions.
• Manage releases, patches and upgrades for the SAS AML platform.
• Implement DevSecOps practices, including vulnerability scanning and secure configurations.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience.
• 3–7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE or Platform Engineering roles.
• Experience in financial services, mobile money or other regulated environments.

Required skills

• CI/CD tools: Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps.
• Linux/Unix system administration.
• SAS platforms (SAS AML or SAS Viya preferred).
• Containerisation: Docker, Kubernetes.
• Scripting: Bash, Python, PowerShell.
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible, ARM templates.
• Monitoring tools: Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus (or similar).
• Networking, APIs and enterprise integration patterns.
• Cloud platforms: Azure, AWS, GCP (certifications a plus).
• Database experience: Oracle, PostgreSQL, SAS data environments.