DevOps Consultant/ Architect

About the Company:

Netspend Corporation is a global, vertically-integrated financial services and technology company dedicated to the delivery of innovative financial empowerment solutions to consumers worldwide. Netspend's financial products and services span prepaid, debit, cross-border payments, and loyalty solutions for consumers and enterprise partners.
Netspend provides prepaid and debit account solutions that connect customers with secure, convenient access to global payment networks so they can manage their money and make everyday purchases. With a nationwide U.S. retail network, customers can purchase and reload Netspend products at 130,000 reload points and over 100,000 distributing locations.
Since our founding in 1999 by industry pioneers, Netspend products have processed billions of dollars in transaction volume and served millions of customers worldwide. The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas with employees worldwide.

As a DevOps Architect/Consultant, you will be the visionary behind our software delivery ecosystem. You won’t just manage pipelines; you will design the entire Internal Developer Platform (IDP) that enables our engineering teams to deploy safely, at scale, and with zero friction. You will bridge the gap between high-level business goals and technical execution, ensuring our infrastructure is cost-optimized, secure by design (DevSecOps), and resilient.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s Degree and 15+ years of experience in DevOps and Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Architect.

• Demonstrated expertise in driving multi-phase cloud migrations, specifically specializing in AWS-native migration tools and frameworks

• Demonstrated expertise in creating and executing CI/CD pipelines.

• Expertise with DevOps toolchains such as Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Ansible.

• In-depth understanding of cloud services such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

• In depth Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methodologies and associated instruments.

• Exceptional problem-solving skills and ability to work in high-pressure environments.

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, for collaboration with cross-functional teams.

• AWS Migration

• Architectural Strategy: Design and implement scalable, multi-cloud, or hybrid-cloud architectures (AWS) using a "Cloud Native" first approach.

• Platform Engineering: Build and maintain an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) to provide self-service capabilities for developers, reducing "cognitive load" and accelerating Time-to-Market.

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Standardize infrastructure using Terraform ensuring 100% of environment provisioning is automated and version-controlled.

• Modern CI/CD & GitOps: Lead the transition to GitOps workflows using Gitlab

• FinOps & Cost Governance: Implement automated cost-tracking and optimization strategies to ensure cloud spend aligns with business value.

• Security & Compliance: Integrate automated security scanning (SAST/DAST), secrets management (HashiCorp Vault), and compliance-as-code into the heart of the delivery flow.

• Team Evolution: Recruit, mentor, and lead a high-performing team of DevOps and Platform Engineers, defining career paths and performance standards.

• Strategic Resource Planning: Manage team capacity, budgets, and vendor relationships to ensure the platform roadmap aligns with organizational growth.

Preferred Certifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional / DevOps Engineer – Professional

• CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) or CKS (Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist)

• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Authoring & Operations Professional

• The "Liaison" Factor: Ability to translate complex infrastructure needs to C-suite stakeholders.

• Mentorship: A track record of leveling up mid-level and senior engineers.

• Systems Thinking: The ability to see the "big picture" and understand how a change in the build pipeline impacts the end-user experience.