DevOps Engineer

POSITION PURPOSE:

The DevOps Engineer is responsible for supporting software development through efficient deployment processes, automation, and infrastructure management. This role ensures smooth collaboration between development and operations teams, optimizes workflows, maintains system reliability, and implements best practices to improve software delivery and operational efficiency.

POSITION DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Deploy and maintain critical applications on cloud-native, distributed, serverless architecture.
2. Implement automation, observability, monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code.
3. Manage efficient and reliable CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments to help minimize developer friction
4. Design and implement secure automation solutions for development, testing, and production environments.
5. Implement industry best practices for system hardening and configuration management, in conjunction with the SecOps team.
6. Improve system reliability through automation, monitoring, and operational best practices.
7. Sustain and improve the process of knowledge sharing throughout the engineering team.
8. Support and work alongside a cross-functional engineering team.
9. Have on call responsibilities in rotation with the engineering team.
10. Operate within Xformative's guidelines pursuant to the Employee Handbook and all Policies and Procedures
11. Perform additional duties as requested by Supervisor and/or Management

POSITIONAL COMPETENCIES:

1. Strong programming skills (Node, Typescript).
2. Proficient in automation tools (GitHub Actions, Serverless, etc.).
3. Knowledge of AWS monitoring and logging tools such as Amazon Cloudwatch, AWS CloudTrail.
4. Exceptional attention to detail with a preference for highly structured procedures
5. Experience maintaining and deploying highly-available, fault-tolerant systems at scale.
6. A drive towards automating repetitive tasks.
7. Expertise with AWS such as IAM, VPC, ECS.
8. Experience implementing CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CodeBuild).
9. Operational experience with NoSQL databases such as Amazon DynamoDB.
10. Experience with infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform, Serverless Framework, AWS Cloudformation).
11. Effective communication skills.

QUALIFICATIONS (EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE):

1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience in a similar role within the technology sector.
2. Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.
3. 3 or more years of large scale distributed system development.
4. Fintech experience preferred, or equivalent experience with regulated environments with compliance requirements (e.g., SOC2, PCI DSS)
5. 3 or more years working in DevOps.
6. Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools (Github Actions preferred)
7. A minimum of 3 years' experience working with AWS and its managed products (AWS Lambda, ECS, SNS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon CloudWatch)
8. Familiarity with control plane architecture, supporting multiple AWS accounts and organizations.
9. Strong incident response skills across detection, investigation, containment, and recovery especially in complex cloud-native environments.
10. Willingness to participate in a shared on-call rotation for security incidents

CORPORATE CORE COMPETENCIES:

1. Drive Action & Results

1. Take on new opportunities with enthusiasm
2. Achieve results even in tough circumstances
3. Take personal accountability for decisions and actions

1. Adapt to Change

1. Operate effectively when things are uncertain
2. Proactively acquire and evaluate information and adapt approach to match shifting demands/situations
3. Rebound from setbacks

1. Embrace Innovation

1. Create new and better ways to approach challenges and develop solutions
2. Learn through experimentation
3. Encourage feedback and seek opportunities to work better/smarter/faster
4. Show personal commitment and take action to continuously improve

1. Create Diversity & Foster Collaboration

1. Actively bring, seek, engage, and honor diverse perspectives
2. Identify and address barriers to inclusion to ensure equity and center belonging
3. Work collaboratively and build partnerships to meet shared objectives

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While this is primarily a sedentary role, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee is also required to sit, stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.