DevOps Engineer II - Digital Assets

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.

Overall Purpose

This position designs, develops, tests and maintains infrastructure as code, CICD patterns, Configuration Management and containerized product applications that support cross-border money movement and digital asset–enabled payment flows, with a focus on reliability, security, and scalability in regulated environments. Collaborates effectively with other members of the team to deliver on the team’s backlog. 

Essential Functions

• Design, develop, document, test and debug new and existing Configuration management patterns and infrastructure as code following SDLC model.

• Contribute to requirements analysis and design a model for Infrastructure and application flow.

• Provide input in design meetings and analyzes user needs to determine technical requirements.

• Write technical specifications (based on conceptual design and business requirements).

• Identify and evaluate new technologies for implementation.

• Analyze results, failures and bugs to determine the causes of errors and tune the automation pipeline to fix the problems to have desired outcome.

• Consult and facilitate with end user and partner teams to prototype, refine, test, and debug programs to meet needs.  Collaborate to identify and solve issues within established time lines.

• Proactively monitors health of environment and act on fixing any issues and improves the performance of environments.

• Assist new staff on getting them up to speed on team policies, procedures, use cases and best patterns.

• Support and maintain products and add new features.

• Support to UAT/production applications as needed.

• 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

Minimum Qualifications

• Education and/or experience typically obtained through completion of a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent certifications.

• Minimum of 5 years prior DevOps, software engineering or related experience.

• Experience building or supporting payment systems, financial services platforms, or other highly available, regulated distributed systems. 

• Familiarity with cross-border payment flows, digital assets, or blockchain-enabled technologies, and the associated security and compliance considerations. 

• Must be able to work different schedules as part of an on-call rotation.

• Ability to work on multiple projects and general understanding of software environments and network topologies

• Working and troubleshooting experience on Linux based applications

• Demonstrable technical design skills

• Demonstrable experience in modern application design

• Solid understanding of an iterative software development process

• Ability to use Unix/Linux command line programs and create/edit scripts

• Knowledge of one or more of the tools – Chef, Ansible, puppet.

• Knowledge of one or more of the tools – IAC, Containerization and orchestration (Terraform, Docker & Kubernetes)

• Knowledge of one of the cloud infrastructure providers – AWS, GCP and Azure

• Background and drug screen.

Preferred

• Certification in Terraform, AWS, and Kubernetes

Physical Requirements

Working conditions consist of a normal office environment. Work is primarily sedentary and requires extensive use of a computer and involves sitting for periods of approximately four hours. Work may require occasional standing, walking, kneeling and reaching. Must be able to lift 50 pounds occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently. Requires visual acuity and dexterity to view, prepare, and manipulate documents and office equipment including personal computers. Requires the ability to communicate with internal and/or external customers.

Employee must be able to perform essential functions and physical requirements of position with or without reasonable accommodation.

The base pay scale for this position in:
New York, NY/ San Francisco, CA in USD per year is: $128,000 - $156,000.

Additionally, candidates are eligible for a discretionary incentive plan and benefits.

This pay scale is subject to change and is not necessarily reflective of actual compensation that may be earned, nor a promise of any specific pay for any specific candidate, which is always dependent on legitimate factors considered at the time of job offer. Early Warning Services takes into consideration a variety of factors when determining a competitive salary offer, including, but not limited to, the job scope, market rates and geographic location of a position, candidate’s education, experience, training, and specialized skills or certification(s) in relation to the job requirements and compared with internal equity (peers). The business actively supports and reviews wage equity to ensure that pay decisions are not based on gender, race, national origin, or any other protected classes.

Some of the Ways We Prioritize Your Health and Happiness 

• Healthcare Coverage – Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans as well as company contributions to your Health Savings Account (HSA) or pre-tax savings through flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health & dependent care expenses.

• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Featuring a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility.

• Paid Time Off – Flexible Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees, as well as generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees, plus 11 paid company holidays and a paid volunteer day.

• 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave

• Maven Family Planning – provides support through your Parenting journey including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work.

And SO much more! We continue to enhance our program, so be sure to check our Benefits page here for the latest. Our team can share more during the interview process!

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Early Warning Services, LLC (“Early Warning”) considers for employment, hires, retains and promotes qualified candidates on the basis of ability, potential, and valid qualifications without regard to race, religious creed, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, protected veteran or disability status or any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote equal employment opportunity and affirmative action, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and municipal laws. The company also prohibits discrimination on other bases such as medical condition, marital status or any other factor that is irrelevant to the performance of our employees.