Sr. DevOps Engineer
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 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.
About the role
This position designs, develops, tests and maintains infrastructure as code, CI/CD patterns, configuration management, and containerized product applications, providing technical leadership and hands-on support for internal systems.
Responsibilities
- 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
- Troubleshoot complex infrastructure problems, often spanning multiple layers of the stack and requiring collaboration with multiple teams
- Design cloud infrastructure for robustness, security, and observability
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines
- Architect Kubernetes-based systems
- Automate AWS services using Terraform and Ansible
- Manage container orchestration (Kubernetes, TKGi, EKS, ECS)
- Build and scale workflow pipelines
- Support data center operations, monitoring, alerting, and notifications
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent certifications
- Minimum of 5 years of related experience in DevOps, software engineering, or a similar role
- Experience designing cloud infrastructure for robustness, security, and observability
- Expertise in infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and Ansible
- Expertise in AWS foundations including compute, networking, storage, observability, and security
- Strong knowledge of AWS services (EC2, IAM, ELB, Route53, S3, Lambda, CloudFormation, DynamoDB)
- Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes, TKGi, EKS, ECS)
- Proficiency with networks, DNS, HTTP, TLS, load-balancing, build systems, Linux, and Docker
- Experience in building CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with modern application design patterns
- Solid understanding of iterative software development processes
- Ability to use Linux administration command-line programs and create/edit scripts
- Knowledge of configuration management tools (Chef, Ansible, Puppet)
- Knowledge of containerization and orchestration (Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience with security and encryption protocols
- Ability to work different schedules as part of an on-call rotation
Preferred Qualifications
- AWS certification(s) strongly preferred
Pay
The base pay scale for this position is:
- Phoenix, AZ / Chicago, IL: $106,000 – $130,000 USD per year
- San Francisco, CA: $128,000 – $156,000 USD per year
Additionally, candidates are eligible for a discretionary incentive plan and benefits. Pay is subject to change and depends on factors such as job scope, market rates, geographic location, education, experience, and specialized skills.
Benefits
- Competitive healthcare coverage (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans, plus company contributions to Health Savings Account (HSA) or pre-tax savings through flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health, and dependent care expenses
- 401(k) Retirement Plan with a 100% company safe harbor match on the first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility
- Flexible Time Off for exempt (salaried) employees and generous PTO for non-exempt (hourly) employees, plus 11 paid company holidays and a paid volunteer day
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave
- Maven Family Planning support, including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work