Early Warning® · 7 hours ago
Sr. DevOps Engineer
Early Warning is a trusted name in payments that has powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years. They are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, develop, test, and maintain infrastructure as code, providing technical leadership and hands-on support for internal systems.
Financial ServicesFraud DetectionPaymentsRisk Management
Responsibilities
Design, develop, document, test and debug new and existing Configuration management patterns and infrastructure as code
Design, create and maintain comprehensive policies and technical documentation of best practices for all implemented system configurations ensuring efficient planning and execution
Perform requirements analysis and design a model for Infrastructure and application flow
Conduct design meetings and analyzes user needs to determine technical requirements
Write technical specifications (based on conceptual design and business requirements)
Identify and evaluate new technologies for implementation. Recommend and implement changes to existing hardware and operating system infrastructure including patches, users, file systems and kernel parameters. Seek out and implement new technologies to continually simplify the environment while improving security and performance
Analyze results, failures and bugs to determine the causes of errors and tune the automation pipeline to fix the problems to have desired outcome
Diagnose and resolve hardware related server problems (failed disks, network cards, CPU, memory, etc.) and act as escalation point to troubleshoot hardware and operating system problems and suggest possible performance tuning
Consult with end user to prototype, refine, test, and debug programs to meet needs
Proactively monitors health of environment and act on fixing any issues and improves the performance of environments
Coaching and mentoring staff on team policies, procedures, use cases and best patterns
Support and maintain products and add new features
Participate in and follow change management processes for change implementation
Support the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data
Design/Implement container orchestration platform in a hybrid cloud environment
Ensure that container orchestration platform is regularly maintained and released to production without downtime
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
Qualification
Required
Education and/or experience typically obtained through completion of a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent certifications
Minimum of 7 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
Certification in Terraform, AWS, and Kubernetes
AWS, Azure (and/ or other cloud-based) certification(s) strongly preferred
Benefits
Healthcare Coverage – Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans as well as company contributions to your Health Savings Account (HSA) or pre-tax savings through flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health & dependent care expenses.
401(k) Retirement Plan – Featuring a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility.
Paid Time Off – Unlimited Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees, as well as generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees, plus 11 paid company holidays and a paid volunteer day.
12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
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Company
Early Warning®
Early Warning Services, LLC, a financial services technology leader, has been empowering and protecting consumers, small businesses, and the U.S.
Funding
Current Stage
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2025-10-31
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