Senior DevOps Engineer

About Us

DriveWealth is on a mission to make investing easier. We believe that everyone should have the ability to control their financial future, and that access to financial markets should not be limited by geography, wealth, or legacy systems. We are a global B2B financial technology organization dedicated to democratizing access to financial independence around the world. Our mission is realized through an API-based platform, empowering our partners to offer seamless investing and trading experiences to clients worldwide, all from their mobile devices. Our technology provides partners with a modern, extensible toolkit, enabling traditional investment workflows and innovative techniques like fractional share ownership. DriveWealth has evolved into a global platform offering trading of US equities, mutual funds, ETFs, fixed income, and options.

There’s never been a better time to build a category-defining business and there has rarely been a team better positioned for this opportunity. Our culture blends the pace and agility of a fintech start-up with the impact, stability, and discipline of Wall Street. We encourage creativity and experimentation while ensuring institutional-grade execution and regulatory compliance in everything we do. Join us and help build the future of global investing!

About the role

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be a crucial member of our infrastructure team, managing and maintaining our financial services platform built on a 24x7, highly available architecture. We are critical infrastructure for our customers, so your work matters to our business. We value simplicity over complexity - both in design and communication.  We're seeking a candidate with a strong DevOps mentality and is passionate about building elegant, cloud-native, fully automated solutions with security in mind.

What you'll do

• Build, enhance, and support service solutions and infrastructure from conception to execution
• Manage and improve AWS, Windows, and Linux systems uptime and performance
• Responsible for Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, GitHub Actions, JFrog Artifactory
• Build and run production environments in AWS using Infrastructure as code methods
• Orchestrate environment development using Kubernetes, Terraform, and/or CloudFormation, leading key initiatives and improvements
• Build & Deploy CI pipeline automation to a combination of Kubernetes/Docker and EC2-based systems in AWS.
• Work closely with System Architects, Engineers, Product Managers, and SRE to meet their environment setup and service automation needs.
• Develop a process to make DevOps a part of the engineering development, service deployment, and operations lifecycle (SDLC)
• Identify and implement key monitoring and analytics for DriveWealth solutions and services, especially for greenfield projects and initiatives.
• Lead and mentor junior DevOps / SRE Engineers and guides the team to industry and company standards

What you'll need

• Expert in system build configuration and deployment automation
• Expert in Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Expert in container and fleet management: Docker, Kubernetes, and/or Rancher
• Experience with project management tools (Jira, Confluence)
• 5+ years of experience in Linux
• 5+ years of experience building and maintaining a SaaS platform
• Experience with AWS: VPC, EC2, RDS, CloudFormation, Terraform
• Must be passionate about automation
• Experience with project management and tracking
• Background in software application-driven development roles with a knowledge of software data structures and design patterns
• Mastered scripting skills in one of Ruby/Bash/Python
• Build and release automation tools: GitHub Actions, GIT, Kubernetes – ArgoCD a plus
• Experience with RedHat OpenShift
• Production system integration, log collection and analysis build, and performance monitoring/tuning.
• Design and implement availability, security, and performance monitoring

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. DriveWealth is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

Compensation
Compensation package offerings are based on candidate experience and technical qualifications, as it relates to the role. These are identified and determined throughout your interviewing experience.

Please note: this role is expected to come into our office on a cadence set by the Hiring Manager/Team.

New York, NY (Hybrid) Pay Range$175,000—$225,000 USD

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