# Staff DevOps Engineer (Ingeniero DevOps Staff) - Remote at Clara

> Colombia · Staff · DevOps / SRE / Infra · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Aclara%3A5256932007 (read 2026-11-07).

## Facts (observed)

- Company: [Clara](https://alderhq.app/companies/clara)
- Location text: Bogota D.C. / DC / Colombia; Mexico City / CDMX / Mexico; Sao Paulo / SP / Brazil; Brasil ; Colombia; Mexico
- Where it can be done from (inferred): Colombia (evidence: "Location: Bogota D.C. / DC / Colombia; Mexico City / CDMX / Mexico; Sao Paulo / SP / Brazi")
- Posted: 2026-10-05 (33 days ago)
- First seen by alder: 2026-11-02 · last verified: 2026-11-04
- Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times
- Apply on the employer's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/clara/jobs/5256932007
- Skills listed (inferred): TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Java, Ruby/Rails, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Kafka, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, LLMs, Distributed systems

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: not posted
- Licensed UK sponsor: registered as "Clara Technologies (UK) Limited" (checked 2026-11-03, [register](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/register-of-licensed-sponsors-workers))

## Description (the employer's text)

Clara is the leading platform in Latin America for companies to execute and manage every payment operation. More than 50,000 leading and fast-growing businesses run on our corporate cards, bill pay, financing and B2B payments, and in 2025 the Financial Times named Clara the region’s fastest-growing company. We’re passionate about helping every company we work with become more effective—and, through that, raising the region’s competitiveness. We’re ~400 people, backed by Notable Capital, Coatue, Kaszek, monashees, DST Global, ICONIQ, General Catalyst and Goldman Sachs, among others.

### We are looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer who

### Responsibilities

- Platform Leadership: Lead the design, adoption, and continuous improvement of the Internal Developer Platform (IDP), driving CI/CD pipeline standardization to increase deployment frequency and reduce Cycle Time.
- FinOps Strategy: Design and implement engineering FinOps strategy across AWS and other tooling, identifying cost-saving opportunities without compromising reliability.
- Container Orchestration: Operate and evolve our Kubernetes platform on Amazon EKS, supporting multi-country production workloads (MX/CO/BR).
- Event-Driven Infrastructure: Support and troubleshoot our Kafka/MSK-based event-driven architecture, used extensively across our microservices for async processing, notifications, and cross-service communication.
- Applied AI/Automation: Build and integrate MCP-based (Model Context Protocol) or other applied-AI solutions to automate log analysis and accelerate Root Cause Analysis (RCA) during incidents.
- Technical Advisory: Advise development teams on scalable, secure infrastructure design; identify and mitigate technical debt in legacy systems; support cross-team architectural reviews.
- Security & Access: Implement and maintain Least Privilege Access (IAM) models for both human and non-human identities, including peer review of policies.
- SSDLC: Strengthen the Secure Software Development Lifecycle through container standardization, secure base images, and pipeline hardening.
- Compliance & Audits: Lead technical compliance initiatives for audits, certifications (e.g., ISO 27001), local fintech regulations, and enterprise integration RFPs.
- Resilience: Design and implement multi-account, multi-region backup and recovery systems.
- Infrastructure as Code: Define and implement IaC for environment provisioning and management.
- Operations: Participate in on-call rotations, continuously improving MTTD/MTTR through effective monitoring and alerting.
- Mentorship: Provide technical support and mentorship to development teams adopting internal tooling (CLIs, container platforms, etc.).
### Qualifications

- Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
### Experience

- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE roles, ideally in fintech or regulated environments.
- Strong experience with multi-account, multi-region AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM, or equivalent services).
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes on Amazon EKS (cluster operations, scaling, networking, workload troubleshooting) in production.
- Experience with Apache Kafka / Amazon MSK in production: topic design, consumer group management, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
- Experience leading or contributing to the build of Internal Developer Platforms (IDP) and CI/CD standardization (GitHub Actions, self-hosted runners, or similar).
- Experience in observability and incident management (Datadog or similar) and DORA metrics (Cycle Time, CFR, MTTR).
- Practical knowledge of cloud security: Least Privilege, SSDLC, and compliance frameworks (ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, or regional fintech regulations).
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code.
- Technical Skills: Ruby, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java; PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis; experience with our core stack of Java/Spring Boot microservices on Kubernetes (EKS) with Kafka/MSK for event-driven communication; familiarity with applying AI/LLMs to operational tasks (automated log analysis, MCPs, agents) is a plus.

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