Cloud Engineer

About Thunes

Thunes is the Smart Superhighway to move money around the world. Thunes’ proprietary Direct Global Network allows Members to make payments in real-time in over 130 countries and more than 80 currencies.

Thunes’ network connects directly to over 7 billion mobile wallets and bank accounts worldwide, as well as 15 billion cards via more than 320 different payment methods, such as GCash, M-Pesa, Airtel, MTN, Orange, JazzCash, Easypaisa, AliPay, WeChat Pay and many more.

Thunes’ Direct Global Network differentiates itself through its worldwide reach, in-house SmartX Treasury System and Fortress Compliance Platform, ensuring Members of the network receive unrivaled speed, control, visibility, protection and cost efficiencies when making real-time payments, globally.

Members of Thunes’ Direct Global Network include gig economy giants like Uber and Deliveroo, super-apps like Grab and WeChat, MTOs, fintechs, PSPs and banks.

Headquartered in Singapore, Thunes has offices in 14 locations, including Abidjan, Barcelona, Beijing, Dubai, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, London, Manila, Nairobi, Paris, Riyadh, San Francisco and Shanghai.

For more information, visit: https://www.thunes.com/

About the Role

We're looking for a Cloud Engineer who wants to work in a disruptive, fast-growing and exciting environment. As part of the Infrastructure team, this role will bring you great opportunities to work on various projects, technologies, with a diverse range of teams.

You will be part of a global team responsible of:

• maintaining Thunes cloud infrastructure highly available, provisioning cloud and servers via infrastructure automation tools


• keeping Thunes cloud infrastructure secure and up to date, running vulnerability scanning, applying patches, and configuration best practices


• ensuring the platform growth and scalability, designing highly available and secure architectures, and continuity plans


• answering to alerts and incidents related to the availability or security of the platform, helping different departments to troubleshoot issues


• setting up connectivity between Thunes and its partners, increasing Thunes network

The ideal candidate should be able to take initiatives, have strong troubleshooting skills, a problem solving and security-oriented mindset.

What We’re Looking For:

For this position, it is required to have experience with:

• Secure, highly available, large-scale web application architecture


• Cloud environments (AWS is a plus),


• Linux (RHEL based is a plus) and Windows operating systems


• SQL databases (Postgres is a plus)


• Infrastructure automation (Ansible and Terraform are a plus) and version control systems (Git is a plus)


• Monitoring tools (Nagios and Prometheus are a plus)


• Container orchestration tools (Kubernetes is a plus)


• The following protocols: IP, TCP/UDP, IPSec, TLS, HTTP, SMTP, DNS, SSH/SFTP

What are we offering:

• Great compensation package, including performance & company bonus


• Private Health insurance for you and your family


• Life insurance


• Mobile allowance 


• Employee wellbeing & support program


• Learning & Development budget


• Relocation package 


• Work-life balance 


• Our team is global, you will work with 40+ different nationalities spread across 5 continents