Sr. DevOps Engineer

Early Warning (Zelle); Scottsdale (AZ); Hybrid; USD 106,000 - 156,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary incentive plan

Benefits

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Early Warning is seeking a senior DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, test and maintain infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines across AWS, Kubernetes and cloud platforms. The role provides technical leadership and hands-on support for internal systems.

Located in Scottsdale with a hybrid model in multiple cities, the role requires 5+ years of DevOps experience, Linux skills, and strong IaC tooling such as Terraform and Ansible.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 5+ years of DevOps/engineering experience.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and cloud platforms.
• Ability to work on multiple projects and on-call schedule.
• Proficiency with Linux, networks, and security basics.
• Experience with AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Knowledge of Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Lead IaC projects and design APIs for reliable cloud deployments.
• Implement abstractions for cloud providers and internal infra.
• Ensure usable, scalable infrastructure for engineers.
• Troubleshoot complex infra across stack.
• Build and scale CI/CD pipelines and workflows.
• Monitor and secure infrastructure and observability.

Skills

Infrastructure as code

Cloud deployments

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

CI/CD

Linux

On-call rotation

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Linux

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

At Early Warning, we've powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years with cutting-edge solutions like Zelle®, Paze℠, and so much more. As a trusted name in payments, we partner with thousands of institutions to increase access to financial services and protect transactions for hundreds of millions of consumers and small businesses.

Positions located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York follow a hybrid work model to allow for a more collaborative working environment.

Candidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States, for any employer, at the date of hire. This position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship.

Overall Purpose

This position designs, develops, tests and maintains infrastructure as code, CICD patterns, Configuration Management and containerized product applications, providing technical leadership and hands-on support for internal systems.

Essential Functions

• Lead infrastructure-as-code projects, designing APIs and building tools to be used by engineering teams for reliable and repeatable cloud deployments
• Implement abstractions to simplify the complexities of cloud providers (AWS), open-source technologies (Kubernetes), and internal EWS infrastructure
• Obsess about the usability of the systems you build, allowing engineers to have an intuitive and predictable experience working with infrastructure at scale
• Troubleshooting complex infrastructure problems, often spanning multiple layers of the stack and requires working with multiple teams
• Experience designing cloud infrastructure for robustness, security, and observability
• Expertise in infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and continuous deployment pipelines
• Expertise in AWS foundations including compute, networking, storage, observability and security. Experience in automating AWS services using Terraform and Ansible. Experience in highly scalable distributed datacenter or cloud computer systems (AWS, Azure, VM)
• Strong knowledge of AWS services (EC2, IAM, ELB, Route53, S3, Lambda, Cloud Formation, DynamoDB)
• Experience architecting Kubernetes based systems
• Container orchestration - Kubernetes, TKGi, EKS, ECS
• Proficient with using and debugging networks, DNS, HTTP, TLS, load-balancing, build systems, Linux, and Docker
• Experience in building CI/CD pipelines
• Experience building and scaling Workflow pipelines
• Experience in data center operations, monitoring, alerting and notifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Education and/or experience typically obtained through completion of a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent certifications.
• Typically minimum of 5 or more years of related experience.
• Demonstrated prior DevOps, software engineering or related experience.
• Ability to work on multiple projects and general understanding of software environments and network topologies
• Able to facilitate technical design sessions
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in modern application design patterns
• Solid understanding of an iterative software development process
• Ability to use Linux administration command line programs and create/edit scripts
• Knowledge of one or more of the tools - Chef, Ansible, puppet.
• Knowledge of one or more of the tools - IAC, Containerization and orchestration (Terraform, Docker & Kubernetes)
• Experienced with security and encryption protocols.
• Knowledge of one of the cloud infrastructure providers - AWS, GCP and Azure
• Must be able to work different schedules as part of an on-call rotation.
• Background and drug screen.

Preferred

• AWS certification(s) strongly preferred

Physical Requirements

Working conditions consist of a normal office environment. Work is primarily sedentary and requires extensive use of a computer and involves sitting for periods of approximately four hours. Work may require occasional standing, walking, kneeling and reaching. Must be able to lift 10 pounds occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently. Requires visual acuity and dexterity to view, prepare, and manipulate documents and office equipment including personal computers. Requires the ability to communicate with internal and/or external customers.

Employee must be able to perform essential functions and physical requirements of position with or without reasonable accommodation.

The base pay scale for this position in:

• Phoenix, AZ/ Chicago, IL in USD per year is: $106,000 - $130,000.
• San Francisco, CA in USD per year is: $128,000 - $156,000.

Additionally, candidates are eligible for a discretionary incentive plan and benefits.

This pay scale is subject to change and is not necessarily reflective of actual compensation that may be earned, nor a promise of any specific pay for an