Sr. DevOps Engineer

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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 so much 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 allow for a more collaborative working environment.

Candidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States, for any employer, at the date of hire. This position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship.

This position designs, develops, tests and maintains infrastructure as code, CICD patterns, Configuration Management and containerized product applications, providing technical leadership and hands‑on support for internal systems.

• 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 analyze 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.
• Analyze results, failures and bugs to determine the causes of errors and tune the automation pipeline to fix the problems.
• 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 performance tuning.
• Consult with end user to prototype, refine, test, and debug programs to meet needs.
• Proactively monitor environment health, fix issues and improve performance.
• Coach and mentor 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 the container orchestration platform is regularly maintained and released to production without downtime.

• Lead infrastructure‑as‑code projects, designing APIs and building tools for reliable and repeatable cloud deployments.
• Implement abstractions to simplify cloud provider and open‑source complexities.
• Obsess over usability, enabling engineers to have a predictable experience at scale.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure problems spanning multiple layers of the stack.
• Design cloud infrastructure for robustness, security, and observability.
• Expertise in Terraform, Ansible, and continuous deployment pipelines.
• Container orchestration with Kubernetes, TKGi, EKS, ECS.
• Build and scale CI/CD and workflow pipelines.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent certifications.
• Minimum of 7 years of related experience.
• Demonstrated Dev Ops, software engineering or related experience.
• Ability to work on multiple projects and understand software environments and network topologies.
• Facilitate technical design sessions.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in modern application design patterns.
• Solid understanding of iterative software development.
• Proficiency with Linux administration and scripting.
• Knowledge of Chef, Ansible, Puppet and IAC tools.
• Experience with security and encryption protocols.
• Experience with AWS, GCP or Azure.
• On‑call rotation experience.