Staff DevOps Engineer

Jobtailor; California (MO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Lendistry seeks an experienced Platform Engineer to build and maintain the infrastructure for its lending platform. The role focuses on cloud architecture, security posture, and developer experience in a regulated financial services environment.

You will implement infrastructure-as-code, manage container orchestration, and support AI-assisted tooling and observability. Collaboration with security, operations, and platform teams is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related discipline or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experience engineering highly available, enterprise-grade software and platform applications.
• 2+ years hands-on experience in platform engineering across various cloud computing models.
• 2+ years hands-on experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, Docker, and cloud-native applications.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain infrastructure underneath Lendistry’s lending platform.
• Work on cloud architecture, security posture, and developer experience in a regulated financial services environment.
• Support cloud architecture and account management across development, staging, and production environments.
• Implement and maintain infrastructure-as-code and GitOps practices.
• Support container orchestration across multiple deployable services and cloud accounts.
• Support identity management, account-level security posture, secrets management, and KMS key practices.
• Assist security and compliance teams with audits and vendor/security assessments.
• Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines across multiple repositories through production deployments.
• Improve developer experience and internal tooling for engineering teams.
• Participate in on-call and incident-response practices, including postmortems.
• Integrate AI-assisted engineering tools into infrastructure workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and internal tooling.
• Support AI-driven observability, including anomaly detection, predictive alerting, and AI-assisted root-cause analysis.
• Support infrastructure for ML/AI product features, including model serving, inference monitoring, and compute scaling.
• Contribute to self-service internal tooling and golden paths.
• Mentor junior engineers and provide input on the infrastructure and platform engineering technical roadmap

Skills

Cloud Architecture

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Security & Compliance

Team Mentoring

Problem-Solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Docker

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Ansible

Splunk

AppDynamics

New Relic

Dynatrace

Job description

• Build and maintain infrastructure underneath Lendistry’s lending platform
• Work on cloud architecture, security posture, and developer experience in a regulated financial services environment
• Support cloud architecture and account management across development, staging, and production environments
• Implement and maintain infrastructure-as-code and GitOps practices
• Support container orchestration across multiple deployable services and cloud accounts
• Support identity management, account-level security posture, secrets management, and KMS key practices
• Assist security and compliance teams with audits and vendor/security assessments
• Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines across multiple repositories through production deployments
• Improve developer experience and internal tooling for engineering teams
• Participate in on-call and incident-response practices, including postmortems
• Integrate AI-assisted engineering tools into infrastructure workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and internal tooling
• Support AI-driven observability, including anomaly detection, predictive alerting, and AI-assisted root-cause analysis
• Support infrastructure for ML/AI product features, including model serving, inference monitoring, and compute scaling
• Contribute to self-service internal tooling and golden paths
• Mentor junior engineers and provide input on the infrastructure and platform engineering technical roadmap

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related discipline, or equivalent experience
• 4+ years of experience engineering highly available, enterprise-grade software and platform applications
• 2+ years of hands‑on experience in platform engineering across various cloud computing models
• 2+ years of hands‑on experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, Docker, and cloud‑native applications
• Substantial hands‑on experience with public cloud platform services such as AWS, Azure, and GCP
• Hands‑on coding experience in at least two programming languages: Java, JavaScript, Python, Go, or .NET/C#
• Experience with cloud‑native application patterns, microservices architectures, and application migrations to any cloud platform
• Working understanding of infrastructure, virtualization, containers, networking, storage, and monitoring and logging/analytics tools
• Experience with application performance management tools such as Splunk, AppDynamics, New Relic, or Dynatrace
• Experience with CI/CD tools and processes such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and Ansible
• Experience with developer tools and open‑source technologies
• Working familiarity with MLOps/LLMOps concepts and infrastructure needs of AI/ML workloads
• Hands‑on use of AI coding assistants and developer tools such as Claude Code and GitHub Copilot
• Familiarity with policy‑as‑code and software supply chain security practices
• Preferred: 2+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE, with hands‑on AWS production experience
• Preferred: AWS Well‑Architected Framework, AWS core services, Terraform/AWS CDK/CloudFormation, cloud operations, observability, SRE, cloud cost optimization, DevSecOps, incident response, and AI model governance knowledge
• Ability to work effectively across engineering, security, operations, and platform teams
• Interest in mentoring junior engineers and contributing to cloud engineering best practices is a plus

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in cloud architecture, infrastructure-as-code, and container orchestration, with a strong focus on security and compliance in regulated financial services. Proficient in mentoring junior engineers and enhancing developer experience through effective tooling and CI/CD practices.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Cloud Architecture
• Kubernetes
• Infrastructure-As-Code
• CI/CD Pipelines
• AWS

Hard Skills

• Java
• JavaScript
• Python
• Go
• .NET/C#
• Docker
• Microservices Architecture
• MLOps
• Policy-As-Code
• Cloud-Native Applications

Soft Skills

• Mentoring
• Collaboration
• Problem-Solving

Certifications & Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Industry Keywords

• Financial Services
• DevOps
• SRE
• Cloud Operations
• Incident Response

Tools & Technologies

• AWS
• Azure
• GCP
• GitHub Actions
• Jenkins
• Ansible
• Splunk
• AppDynamics
• New Relic
• Dynatrace