Sr Staff Engineer DevOps

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We’re looking for a Senior Staff Dev Ops Engineer to serve as a senior individual-contributor technical leader on our Platform Engineering & Operations team and scale the infrastructure underneath Lendistry’s lending platform. You'll drive cloud architecture, security posture, and developer experience across a regulated financial services environment - setting technical direction and mentoring engineers so we can grow without compromising reliability or compliance.

We're proud to be the nation's largest minority-led, tech-savvy lender for small businesses and commercial real estate. As a certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) and Community Development Entity (CDE), our mission is all about creating economic opportunities and fueling growth for small business owners and their communities. Join us as we pave the way with innovative financing and financial education!

• Serve as a senior technical leader and hands‑on individual contributor for the Platform Engineering & Operations team, without formal people-management responsibilities.
• Mentor cloud and platform engineers, sharing expertise and raising the technical bar across the team.
• Contribute to and help shape the technical strategy and roadmap for infrastructure and platform engineering.

• Drive cloud architecture and account strategy across development, staging, and production environments for a regulated lending platform.
• Drive adoption of infrastructure-as-code and Git Ops practices across infrastructure operations.
• Own container orchestration across multiple deployable services and cloud accounts.
• Experience with CDN/edge/WAF platforms (e.g., Cloudflare, Akamai) for content delivery, DDoS protection, edge security, and traffic/performance optimization.

• Own identity management, account-level security posture, secrets management, and KMS key strategy.
• Partner with security and compliance teams on audits and vendor/security assessments for a regulated financial services platform.

• Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines across multiple repositories, from build through environment-gated production deployments.
• Drive best-in-class developer experience and internal tooling for engineering teams.

• Contribute to on‑call and incident‑response practices, including postmortems, for a platform where downtime directly impacts loan funding and servicing.