Senior DevOps Engineer - Kubernetes

About the role

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to work with cutting-edge cloud technologies on a team focused on delivering secure cloud solutions and products to enterprise customers. You will be part of a highly energetic team of software engineers responsible for transactional processing of high-volume, low-latency decisioning and analytics execution, driving critical business value in a high-growth area for FICO.

Responsibilities

• Partner with product managers to translate platform priorities into scalable, forward-looking infrastructure strategies.
• Architect and own CI/CD pipelines using ArgoCD, Tekton, or similar tools, ensuring high availability across environments.
• Design and implement enterprise-grade observability solutions including monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing for Kubernetes-based applications.
• Collaborate with architects and engineers to optimize deployments, performance, and scalability on Kubernetes.
• Drive continuous improvement of engineering practices, establishing standards that elevate efficiency, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Architect and automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management leveraging AWS services.
• Own security and compliance posture across cloud infrastructure, defining and enforcing policies organization-wide.

Requirements

• Extensive experience architecting and operating data-intensive, containerized applications on Kubernetes at scale, including debugging and troubleshooting complex production issues.
• Advanced proficiency across AWS services including EKS, EC2, S3, IAM, Route 53, and ECR.
• Deep expertise in observability using Prometheus and Grafana, with a strong grasp of security best practices across cloud and Kubernetes environments.
• Strong scripting and automation capabilities (e.g., Python, Bash, GitHub Workflow).
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, CrossPlane, AWS ACK).
• Demonstrated expertise with Helm and ArgoCD, designing and managing complex CD pipelines across multi-environment setups.

Benefits

• An inclusive culture strongly reflecting core values: Act Like an Owner, Delight Our Customers, and Earn the Respect of Others.
• Opportunity to make an impact and develop professionally by leveraging your unique strengths and participating in valuable learning experiences.
• Highly competitive compensation, benefits, and rewards programs that encourage you to bring your best every day and be recognized for doing so.
• An engaging, people-first work environment offering work/life balance, employee resource groups, and social events to promote interaction and camaraderie.

Pay

The targeted base pay range for this role is $115,500 to $181,500, reflecting differences in candidate knowledge, skills, and experience.

About FICO

FICO is a leading global analytics software company, helping businesses in over 100 countries make better decisions. We play a key role in areas such as credit scoring (FICO® Scores are used by 90 of the top 100 US lenders), fraud detection and security (protecting 4 billion payment cards globally), and lending (3/4 of US mortgages are approved using the FICO Score). Global trends toward digital transformation have created tremendous demand for FICO’s solutions, placing us among the world’s top 100 software companies by revenue. We help many of the world’s largest banks, insurers, retailers, telecommunications providers, and other firms reach new levels of success.