Sr. DevOps Engineer

About the role

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 to support a collaborative working environment.

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.
• Develop expertise in infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and continuous deployment pipelines.
• Automate AWS services using Terraform and Ansible.
• Architect Kubernetes-based systems and manage container orchestration (Kubernetes, TKGi, EKS, ECS).
• Build and scale CI/CD pipelines and workflow pipelines.
• Support data center operations, including 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 field.
• Experience designing cloud infrastructure for robustness, security, and observability.
• Expertise in AWS foundations including compute, networking, storage, observability, and security.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services (EC2, IAM, ELB, Route53, S3, Lambda, Cloud Formation, DynamoDB).
• Experience with highly scalable distributed datacenter or cloud computer systems (AWS, Azure, VM).
• Proficiency with networks, DNS, HTTP, TLS, load-balancing, build systems, Linux, and Docker.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet).
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker & Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of security and encryption protocols.
• Ability to work on multiple projects and facilitate technical design sessions.
• Solid understanding of iterative software development processes.
• Linux administration skills and ability to create/edit scripts.
• Ability to work different schedules as part of an on-call rotation.

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS certification(s) strongly preferred.

Benefits

• Competitive healthcare coverage, including medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans, plus company contributions to your 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 your 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.

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. Pay is subject to change and depends on factors such as job scope, market rates, geographic location, education, experience, training, and specialized skills.

Schedule

• Hybrid work model for positions located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York.
• On-call rotation required.

Physical Requirements

• Normal office environment with primarily sedentary work, requiring extensive computer use.
• Occasional standing, walking, kneeling, and reaching.
• Must be able to lift 10 pounds occasionally.
• Requires visual acuity and dexterity to view, prepare, and manipulate documents and office equipment.
• Must be able to communicate with internal and/or external customers.
• Ability to perform essential functions and physical requirements with or without reasonable accommodation.