The company
Our client’s borderless loans enable students from around the world to realize their full academic & career potential by attending top universities in the U.S and Canada. As a mission-oriented FinTech / EdTech company, they move extremely fast and leverage the latest technologies, global best practices, and heavy analytics to tackle one of the biggest challenges in financial inclusion. They are backed by over $150 million in equity capital from top global investors, which enables their fast-growth and provides their company with financial stability and a clear path to an IPO over the coming years.
As a member of their team, you’ll be challenged to think quickly, act autonomously, and constantly grow, creatively in an environment where fast change and exponential growth is the norm.
They have been named as one of the Best FinTechs to work for by American Banker for 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021. They pride themselves in being a “growth company for grown-ups”, where there are no pool tables but there are great health, education, and maternity/paternity benefits instead.
This is a full-time position based in Washington D.C. office and reporting directly to the engineering manager.
The Role
You will be working with a team of engineers to build and support web applications using the latest technologies. You will work in a fast paced agile environment delivering a high-quality product with a focus on continuous innovation. This includes activities such as:
- Automating and orchestrating build and deployment using configuration/deployment management systems
- Leveraging tools to automate builds, Static Code Analysis , testing and deployment tasks.
- Documenting all your work, creating playbooks, and being aware of new and current industry trends, and deployment best practices.
- Leading efforts to ensure business continuity, including monitoring servers, debugging deployment issues
- Troubleshooting products and processes with the ability to spot issues before they become problems
The Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
- 5+ years of experience in a DevOps Engineer role; possessing production-level experience with distributed applications at scale in public cloud (AWS and/or Azure)
- At least 2+ years’ experience in CI/CD pipelines, Build and Deployment activities
- Experience in one (and preferably more) of the following languages: Java, Python, Groovy, Javascript or Ruby
- Proficient with Linux-based infrastructures and operating systems, Linux/Unix administration
- Experience with automation tools like Jenkins / Bamboo, and configuration and deployment tools like Chef/Puppet, Ansible, etc.
- Experience working in an Agile, fast-paced, DevOps environment.
- Production level expertise with containerization orchestration engines (i.e.,Kubernetes, Docker)
- Working knowledge on monitoring servers, AWS EC2, RDS, VPC and debugging build and deployment issues.
- Strong working knowledge of modern, continuous development techniques and pipelines (Agile, Kanban, CI/CD, Jenkins, Git)
- Superior communication skills and ability to explain protocol and processes with team and management.
- Time and project management skills, with the capability to prioritize and multitask as needed.
Also,
- A passion for financial inclusion and access to higher education is a must, as well as comfort working with a global team across multiple-time zones and sites!
- You should be comfortable working in a fast growth environment, meaning a small agile team, fast-evolving roles and responsibilities, variable workload and tight deadlines, a high degree of autonomy, and 80-20 everything.
