Senior DevOps Engineer
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Summary
Senior DevOps Engineer at a fintech startup building digital banking, payments, and credit products for underbanked consumers in Brazil. Day to day involves Linux/Unix administration, AWS cloud operations, automation with tools like Puppet or Chef, SQL/Postgres management, and directing offshore contractors while keeping an always-up production service.
We are on a mission to accelerate financial inclusion in emerging markets, beginning with Brazil - the 5th largest country in the world, with a population of over 200 million individuals. We have developed an innovative, digital solution to seamlessly provide digital banking, payments, and credit solutions to the tens of millions of underbanked Brazilian consumers nationwide, which aims to alleviate the variety of burdens and high costs related to the deeply entrenched banking industry. Our mission is to empower millions of families to take control of their life with the use of simple, low-cost financial services through their smartphone. Additionally, we are developing financial services aimed at merchants to enable them to invest and grow their businesses. We recently announced a partnership with one of the largest retailers in Brazil, which is a multi-billion dollar, publicly-traded company, in order to develop and launch financial service products for their customer base of over 40 million individuals. It’s a particularly exciting time, filled with the intensive challenges related to undergoing our hyper-growth phase, and we’re looking for top-tier talent to help us execute on our mission!
Responsibilities
- Strong background in Linux/Unix Administration
- Experience with automation/configuration management using either Puppet, Chef or an equivalent
- Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and cloud services (experience with AWS is required)
- Strong experience with SQL and Postgres
- Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service
- Docker / Kubernetes exp a plus
- Project management experience needed - to direct the work of offshore contractors
- Good communication skills
- Good problem solving skills
- Serious commitment to maintaining production quality
- Comfort with frequent, incremental code testing and deployment
- Comfort with collaboration, open communication and reaching across functional borders
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience
- AWS experience
- Docker / Kubernetes exp a plus
- Project management experience needed - to direct the work of offshore contractors
- Good communication skills
- Good problem solving skills
- Serious commitment to maintaining production quality
- Security skills
- The ability to communicate cross functionally and work collaboratively
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- 70% healthcare coverage - Dental, Medical
- Flexible work schedule and ability to occasionally work from home
- Kitchen snacks, Bevi water, Nespresso, etc.
- Convenient Downtown location (two blocks from South Station)
- Great company culture with an open door leadership and a focus on personal growth
- 401K with matching
- Commuter benefits
- Gym reimbursements