Devops Engineer

About The Role

As a DevOps Engineer at our fintech company, you will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and maintaining our cloud infrastructure. Your expertise will ensure the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our cloud-based systems. You will be responsible for driving the automation of our deployment processes and enhancing our cloud services to achieve optimal performance and availability.

Responsibilities

1. Cloud DevOps Tools and Coding: Utilize and manage Cloud DevOps tools such as CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, Ansible, GitLab, Jenkins, and other necessary infrastructure automation tools to streamline our development and deployment processes.
2. Automation and Deployment: Develop self-service code and automate end-to-end cloud deployments for our application tech stack, ensuring smooth and efficient operations.
3. Infrastructure Roadmap: Provide a clear roadmap and vision for the scalable and robust growth of our cloud infrastructure and platform services, aiming to achieve 99.999% availability.
4. Technical Analysis and Design: Apply technical analytical and design capabilities to understand common and shared platforms, web services, and APIs. Offer appropriate network and infrastructure recommendations based on underlying data.
5. Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS Integration: Leverage your working experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, and AWS cloud services to integrate and optimize our cloud environments.
6. Accountability for Cloud Architecture: Be 100% accountable for the reliability, scalability, and optimization of our cloud architecture, design, and platform services.
7. Cloud Engineering Leadership: Serve as the lead engineer for cloud infrastructure architecture, design, deployment, and maintenance, ensuring highly reliable and scalable applications.
8. Problem Solving in Cloud Environments: Solve complex technical problems in public clouds (AWS, Azure/GCP) and private cloud environments, and improve operational excellence.
9. Strategic Partnership and Improvement: Dive deep into understanding our current cloud infrastructure and systems architecture. Provide strategic partnerships and improvements in network usage, role management, CDN, domains, and cloud infrastructure security.
10. Performance Optimization: Analyze complex distributed production deployments and recommend ways to optimize performance and automate processes, managing continuous integration servers and utilizing monitoring and testing tools.
11. Systematic Automation: Identify opportunities for disruptive improvements in cloud infrastructure usage, operations, and services with a high degree of systematic automation.
12. Technical Influence: Exert technical influence over multiple teams, enhancing their productivity and effectiveness through shared knowledge and experience.
13. Collaboration and Communication: Collaborate with customers, stakeholders, and lead engineers on key mission-critical projects, ensuring clear and effective communication.

About You

1. Educational Background: Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
2. Experience: 5+ years of strong hands-on experience in cloud platform engineering.
3. System Engineering: 3+ years of hands-on experience in system engineering, Cloud DevOps, and Cloud SRE.
4. Infrastructure as Code (IaC): 2+ years of demonstrable experience building and operating infrastructure as code. Proficiency with various Linux distributions.
5. Cloud Systems: 2+ years of experience building high-performance, highly-available, and scalable distributed systems in the cloud.
6. Hybrid Cloud Environments: 3+ years of experience building and managing high-performance, highly-available, and scalable hybrid cloud environments.
7. Collaboration Skills: Excellent cross-group collaboration and outstanding verbal and written communication skills.

We’d Love It If You Also Had

1. AWS Certification: Advanced Architecting, Developing on AWS.
2. Automation Skills: Strong experience in automating app stack deployments through IaC using Terraform, Python, or Go.
3. Backend Engineering: 5+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure and backend engineering.
4. Database Understanding: Strong understanding of databases and app tech stacks running on cloud platforms.

Join our innovative fintech company and contribute to the development of cutting-edge cloud infrastructure solutions that drive our business forward. Apply now and become a key player in our success story!