ClassWallet, a leading financial technology company in the United States, is seeking to hire a DevOps Engineer to join our team.
ClassWallet is a financial technology company serving agencies delegated responsibility to manage public funds. Agencies use ClassWallet to get public funds to the right people, and ensure the funds are used for the right purpose. ClassWallet’s suite of products and services empowers agency administrators to dramatically increase efficiency of funds distribution and spend compliance, reduce programmatic costs, maximize the full potential impact of the program, and satisfy the needs and expectations of policymakers, constituents and public reporting. ClassWallet has processed over $3.5 Billion to date and serves public agencies across 33 states.
The Company has developed an industry-defining digital wallet solution which has gained rapid traction among state and local agencies and school districts across America. ClassWallet ranks as the 61st fastest growing software company on the prestigious Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies and the 21st fastest growing financial technology company on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 in 2023.
While the Company delivers immense business value, the social impact of ClassWallet is a fabric that runs through its mission and corporate culture. As a result of ClassWallet’s innovation, public programs run with exponentially more efficiency and the impact and breadth of the programs for the individuals they serve is dramatically higher. This mission compliments the Company mission-based culture with focus on gratitude and work-life balance.
About the Role
At ClassWallet, we are redefining how public funds reach the people who need them. We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to play a key role within our platform team, helping to optimize our cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and system visibility. This is a role for a technical leader who views scalability, automation, and observability as foundational elements of a world-class engineering organization.
Reporting to the Sr. Engineering Platform Manager, you will work at the critical intersection of development, operations, and compliance. You will help drive the continuous evolution of our AWS environments, optimize our GitHub-centric deployment lifecycles, and build a proactive observability culture. You will work as a high-impact peer to our Engineering and Security teams, ensuring our platform remains highly available, performant, and reliable for our government partners while strictly adhering to federal and state compliance standards.
Requirements
The ideal candidate is an automation expert who thrives in high-stakes environments and possesses a deep "builder and optimizer" mindset.
Experience: Minimum of 7+ years of experience designing, building, and managing complex Cloud systems (AWS), ideally within FinTech, government, or similarly regulated, high-availability environments.
Regulatory & Compliance Frameworks: Hands-on experience building, managing, and automating infrastructure that adheres to strict government-level security standards, specifically GovRAMP and FedRAMP. Experience partnering with security teams to maintain SOC2 Type 2 compliance is essential.
AWS Mastery: Expert-level proficiency in AWS architecture and services (e.g., EKS/ECS, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, Route53). You treat cloud infrastructure as a flexible, scalable commodity that is secure by default.
GitHub Optimization & CI/CD: Deep, hands-on expertise in GitHub, GitHub Actions, and advanced deployment strategies. You are adept at optimizing runner performance, creating reusable workflow templates, managing secrets, and implementing zero-downtime deployment models (Blue/Green, Canary).
Observability & Monitoring: Extensive experience implementing and managing modern observability stacks (e.g., Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch). You are highly skilled at configuring distributed tracing, complex alerting, log aggregation, and APM to ensure constant, actionable visibility into system health.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Deep knowledge of Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation to automate the provisioning, scaling, and compliance auditing of environments reliably and consistently.
Application Stack: Strong understanding of supporting Node-based systems and modern web applications within containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
Documentation & Process Design: Proven ability to create and maintain stringent, audit-ready documentation. You don't just build and operate the system; you prove its integrity through impeccable record-keeping and process design. This includes authoring detailed runbooks, architectural diagrams, disaster recovery procedures, and mapping technical controls to compliance frameworks to ensure smooth audits and seamless knowledge transfer across teams.
Collaboration & Culture: Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to foster a culture of end-to-end accountability among Engineering teams, seamlessly bridging the gap between code creation, robust security practices, and continuous production reliability.
Strategic Goals
Your success in this role will be defined by three key pillars:
- Infrastructure Scalability & Compliance: Move beyond standard configurations to implement a highly resilient, automated AWS architecture. You will refine our infrastructure baselines, ensuring our systems can effortlessly scale to handle rapid growth while baking FedRAMP and GovRAMP compliance requirements directly into our infrastructure as code.
- Deployment Velocity & Excellence: Transform our CI/CD processes into a frictionless, automated engine. You will optimize our GitHub Actions pipelines to reduce build times, automate testing and security gates, and enable engineering teams to ship code rapidly, safely, and independently.
- Proactive Observability: Shift our monitoring posture from reactive troubleshooting to proactive observability. By implementing comprehensive metrics, tracing, and intelligent alerting, you will empower the team to anticipate and resolve performance bottlenecks before they impact our users, ensuring ClassWallet's reliability remains the gold standard in the industry.
Benefits
ClassWallet is a positive, family-oriented team environment. Our focus is on encouragement, positive reinforcement, and gratitude. We work hard and are highly motivated to win but with a healthy perspective on life.
We offer an excellent salary and benefits commensurate with experience.
ClassWallet.com is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants are considered for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status.
Skills Required
- Minimum 7+ years designing, building, and managing complex AWS cloud systems
- Hands-on experience building, managing, and automating infrastructure for GovRAMP and FedRAMP
- Experience partnering with security teams to maintain SOC2 Type 2 compliance
- Expert-level proficiency with AWS services (EKS/ECS, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, Route53)
- Deep, hands-on expertise in GitHub and GitHub Actions, including runner optimization, reusable workflows, secrets management, and zero-downtime deployments
- Extensive experience with observability and monitoring stacks (Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch) including tracing, alerting, and log aggregation
- Deep knowledge of Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation
- Strong understanding of Node-based application stacks running in containerized environments
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes container orchestration
- Proven ability to create and maintain audit-ready documentation: runbooks, diagrams, disaster recovery, and controls mapping
- Exceptional communication and collaboration skills to bridge engineering, operations, and security
- Experience in FinTech, government, or similarly regulated, high-availability environments
What the Team is Saying
What We Do
We recently updated our Vision and Values as we are more than simply a technology. In our evolved Vision statement, we now emphasize the word, "integrity" as we know it is the combination of technology and PEOPLE that truly sets us apart. Our clients look good because their citizens are better served using our platform and processes that include real people supporting the effort. A notable addition to our Values is that, "we care deeply about the people we serve," further emphasizing the Mission and how we approach the day-to-day. Our Values are used to make difficult business decisions. They are not simply slogans but expectations interwoven into the fabric of the culture. A pioneer in financial and government technology, ClassWallet's technology is used by public agencies across 35 states to maximize the positive impact of public funding on people’s lives. Since 2014, the ClassWallet platform has been used to deliver more than $4 billion in public funds to millions of citizens, and has helped clients achieve the highest standards of program integrity and efficiency. With customer loyalty and satisfaction exceeding some of the world's largest brands, ClassWallet was recognized by J.D. Power in 2024 for providing "An Outstanding Customer Service Experience" for Phone Support. ClassWallet is headquartered in Hollywood, Florida, and ranks as the 88th fastest-growing software company on the prestigious Inc. 5000 list.
Why Work With Us
From ClassWallet’s Founder and Executive Chairman to every member of the leadership team, our culture of authenticity is a foundational value for all. This fundamental philosophy guides interactions with each other and our clients and customers.
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ClassWallet Offices
Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
The majority of employees are distributed around the U.S. and work remotely. We have a headquarters in Hollywood, FL that supports hybrid work as well.
