DevOps Tech Lead Manager

Mexico💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-01 → 2026-09-29

Core

Lead a DevOps squad of 4–8 engineers to ensure Aplazo's core infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and secure while maintaining hands-on engineering work.

Role type

Senior DevOps Tech Lead Manager (first-line people management)

Builds

Core financial infrastructure (cloud, CI/CD, observability) for a Latin American fintech

Domain

Fintech / Financial Services / Cloud Infrastructure

Required skills

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation), CI/CD systems, AWS services (Fargate, ECS, EC2, RDS, Lambda), observability (Datadog), scripting (Python, Bash, Node.js), team hiring and onboarding, incident management, performance reviews

Preferred skills

GCP services, MongoDB Atlas, regulated environment experience (CNBV, SOC 2, PCI), DORA metrics

Technologies

Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, AWS, Datadog, Python, Bash, Node.js, TypeScript, ECS, Fargate, RDS, Lambda, SQS, Kinesis

Responsibilities

Manage and grow a squad of 4–8 DevOps engineers; own squad delivery commitments, code/infra quality, and on-call rotation; stay hands-on with IaC, CI/CD, and observability; run 1:1s, write performance reviews, and coach career growth; handle squad-level incidents and post-mortems; tie squad work to business OKRs/KPIs

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with people management

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About aplazo

Aplazo is Mexico's leading BNPL platform, built for a market where 40% of users have no credit history and traditional credit checks simply don't work. We operate at the intersection of financial inclusion and technology, enabling millions of Mexicans to make fractionated payments online and in-store without a credit card. We've cracked alternative data lending at scale, achieving the lowest default rates in LATAM while growing rapidly. With $110 million raised across Series A+ and Series B, we are well-capitalised and growing across every vertical.