About Kinly: 

Kinly is a financial services company helping Black America build generational wealth. We are focused on improving financial livelihood through financial education, Black-focused spending, and wealth building. Through our app, Kinly helps members manage their money and develop positive financial behaviors to reach goals and realize dreams. We are committed to attracting and hiring the most talented individuals to help us change lives and the lives of future generations. If our mission resonates with you, we encourage you to apply.

The Opportunity:

The DevOps Engineer is a key member of our growing Engineering team and contributes to building the First Boulevard mobile app. This role is responsible for securing and technically managing our mobile app and ensuring a seamless and secure experience for all Kinly users. This role will design and configure a cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and highly available on AWS.

You Will:

• Drives improvements to the software development and deployment process of our proprietary applications and services.
• Collaborates with software engineers and security experts to ensure that the right practices are in place and to take the security lead on automating the path to production.
• Deploys changes in a highly secure manner.
• Works closely with the engineering, product, infosec, and department heads to understand the priorities to create a roadmap to ensure world-class uptime and development environments.
• Designs and implements Security Integrations within a CI/CD pipeline.
• Writes automation code for provisioning and operating infrastructure at a massive scale, aiming for 100% automation in DevOps processes.
• Be part of the founding team responsible for design and implementation of infrastructure and security architecture, including security groups, network firewalls, WAF, and IDS.
• Works very closely with the InfoSec, Operations, and Engineering teams to craft and enforce security policy related to DevOps, infrastructure, and more.
• Establishes and promotes good practice for managing information technology and information security risk, providing support, advice, and information where required.
• Helps prevent security incidents and responds effectively to them when they happen.
• Audits and strengthens existing infrastructure, automation, code and process.
• Creates a process to scale the Kinly DevOps infrastructure.
• Contributes to the specification and design documentation.
• Performs infrastructure cost analysis and optimization.
• Other duties as assigned.

You Are:

• Expertise with the common cloud providers, ideally Amazon Web Services.
• Strong knowledge of containerization solutions like Docker, AWS ECS, Kubernetes, Openshift, Fargate.
• Good understanding of CI/CD processes and tools, e.g., AWS CodePipeline & CodeBuild, or Jenkins.
• Good understanding of traditional enterprise technology stack and enterprise networking concepts.
• Good understanding of Agile software development framework (e.g., Scrum) and tools (e.g., Jira).
• Knowledge of API security and best practices.
• Knowledge of PCI compliance.
• Core Python/Clojure or background in Clojure development.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with the entire team and between teams.
• Excellent time management skills.

Education & Experience

• 7+ years DevOps related work.
• 5+ years of cloud infrastructure experience.
• 3+ years of AWS experience.
• Experience building and managing release systems, code merging and promotion, and ci/cd workflows and tools (circleci).
• Experience with Mobile Device and Application Security.
• Experience with advance messaging technologies such as AWS MSK, SQS, Kinesis, or similar technologies.
• Experience with database setup and configuration such as AWS Aurora, ElastiCache, DynamoDB, Openshift.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools, e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, OpenTracing.
• Preferred experience:
  • Unix scripting.
  • API testing tools, ex: Soap UI / Insomnia REST.
  • Monitoring tools, ex: SumoLogic.
  • Experience in supporting financial services systems.
  • Experience with managing consumer PII data.
  • Supported ML pipeline.
  • Snowflake experience.

Why You Should Apply:

• Industry Competitive Compensation
• New hire meaningful equity
• 100% Medical, Dental, Vision Coverage
• Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
• Friendly diverse and inclusive workplace culture
• Flexible Time Off and Paid Vacations

Equal Opportunity at Kinly:

Kinly is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more.

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