Senior Infrastructure DevOps Engineer (Remote)
Upgrade is a fintech unicorn founded in 2017. We are the fastest-growing company in the Americas (Financial Times). In the last five years, over 15 million people have applied for an Upgrade card or loan, and we have delivered over $10 billion in affordable and responsible credit. Our innovative Upgrade Card is the fastest growing credit card in America (Nilson Report). Combining the flexibility of a credit card with the low cost of an installment loan helps us redefine banking.
Upgrade has been named a “Best Place to Work in the Bay Area” three years in a row, one of the “Top Companies to work for in Arizona”, “Best Engineering Team" and we have received awards for being a best company for Diversity, Women, Culture, and Veterans.
We are looking for new team members who get excited about designing and delivering new and better products to join a team of 1300 talented and passionate professionals. Come join us if you like to tackle big problems and make a meaningful difference in people's lives.
This is a remote position based in the United States.
What You'll Do:
- Build a resilient, secure, and efficient cloud based platform.
- Automate deployment, monitoring, management and incident response.
- Monitor and troubleshoot platform issues.
- Build and scale the technology infrastructure to meet rapidly increasing demand.
- Manage cross-functional requirements working with various company stakeholders.
- Collaborate with Development and QA to bring new features and services into production.
- Develop and improve operational practices and procedures.
What We Look For:
- 5+ years of relevant experience.
- In-depth knowledge of AWS services and hands-on experience in AWS provisioning.
- Experience with Kubernetes (1.20+) and containerized applications.
- Understanding of microservices architecture and debugging/investigation techniques.
- Strong understanding of systems, networking and troubleshooting techniques.
- Experience in automated build pipeline, continuous integration and continuous deployment.
- Knowledge of cloud monitoring, logging and cost management tools.
- Strong programming/scripting knowledge - Python, Go, Helm.
- Ability to operate in an agile, entrepreneurial start-up environment.
- AWS certification is a plus.
- Experience with other IaaS platforms is a plus.
Our Tech Stack:
- Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTracing/OpenTelemetry.
- Infrastructure as code: Terraform, Ansible.
- CD: GitOps, ArgoCD, ArgoRollouts.
- CI: Jenkins.
- Optional: Java, Groovy.
- AWS: EKS, ECR, EC2, LB, route53, ElasticSearch, Shield, WAF
What We Offer You:
- Competitive salary and stock option plan.
- 100% paid coverage of medical, dental and vision insurance.
- 401(k) company match program.
- Unlimited vacation.
- Learning stipend for personal growth and development.
- Paid parental leave.
- Health and wellness initiatives.