Remote Senior DevOps Engineer
@ ClearScale

ClearScale is a leading AWS Premier Consulting company that provides a wide range of cloud services including cloud architecture design, development, integration, migration, automation, and managed services. We help Fortune 500 enterprises, mid-sized businesses, and startups succeed with ambitious, challenging, and unique cloud projects. We architect, develop, and launch innovative and sophisticated solutions using the best cutting-edge cloud technologies.

ClearScale is growing quickly and there is a high demand for the services we provide. Clients come to us for our deep experience in cloud infrastructure, migrations, DevOps, and automation,

This is a unique opportunity to make a big impact, enjoy competitive compensation, work on a wide variety of projects for clients across multiple industries, alongside some of the best minds in the cloud. You’ll be joining the team at an exciting time as we work together on solving all sorts of interesting problems. We’re looking for enthusiastic technologists with a range of experience to join our team. We value people who take pride in their work and place an emphasis on getting things done.

About the role

This is a dynamic role with a high emphasis on being self-motivated to solve the task at hand. There is no ‘typical day’ in the Systems team as new challenges arise daily. You will ensure that good decisions are being made and procedures are being followed. You will take ownership to identify and resolve any gaps in process or infrastructure. When services are interrupted, you will be responsive and restore functionality in a timely and efficient manner.

You will work closely with coworkers in our global offices and across multiple time zones on the constantly evolving mission to deliver the most reliable and robust systems in the industry. The team is constantly innovating and adopting new approaches to improve efficiency, automate repetitive work, and reduce manual tasks.

Project description

The Customer is a venture-funded, fintech company that provides integrated credit score and personal finance solutions to over 125 Credit Unions and Banks. The Customer’s solution provides a free credit score, report, and daily monitoring. Its pre-qualification offer engine displays targeted financial offers from the financial service partner based on the user’s credit score. The number of customers has significantly grown since 2018. In addition to receiving a strategic investment from publicly traded venture firm 1, the Customer entered into a partnership with the publicly-traded company 2 to power its credit score solution, The Solution, on 9 of its online banking platforms.

ClearScale has previously developed a multi-tenant AWS cloud-native SaaS platform for The Customer to power credit score and personal finance solutions. Clearsclae currently provides the following support for the application services:

• On-going Development
• On-going DevOps/SysOps support
• Infrastructure refinement (serverless transition)
• 24/7 MSP Support
• SRE practices development

ClearScale has also implemented an event-based data architecture to support several most important data-driven analytical reports.

Job Responsibilities:

• AWS Infrastructure Automation with Cloud Formation and Terraform (existing code refactoring and new stacks development)
• Application Containerization (docker, AWS ECS Fargate, AWS ECS EC2, Java-based containers, AWS Batch, AWS Lambda, AWS APP Mesh)
• Application System Integrations (NewRelic, agent packaging, Logging solutions setup ELK, Loggly, AWS Native services: SSM, CloudWatch)
• Application Infrastructure Integrations (AWS Aurora, AWS RDS, AWS DynamoDB, AWS ElastiCashe, Redshift, SQS)
• CI/CD Setup (Jenkins, AWS Code Build, AWS Code Pipeline)
• Project Documentation (Diagrams, Architecture Design, Instructions, Handover documents, Runbooks)
• Communications with the customer in English (emails, slack chat, work sessions)
• Proactive participation in infrastructure evolvement process

Required skills and experience:

• Experience in building solutions from scratch with delivery-ready architecture documentation and usage explanation.
• Experience with all aspects of DevOps (source control, continuous integration, deployments, etc.). Jenkins, Docker, AWS ECS, and other automation tools
• Linux Server Server support (3-5 years)
• Expertise with key AWS services: EC2, IAM, S3, VPC and Networking, RDS, ECS, SES, Batch, Lambda, SQS
• Databases: PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Redshift
• Scripting: bash, python and/or other programming skills, Groovy

Desired Technical Certifications (not a must):

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – (Associate / Professional)
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – (Associate / Professional)
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – (Associate / Professional)
• AWS Certified Developer – (Associate)

We offer 

• High compensation paid;
• Completely remote work: we trust our employees to work from anywhere they please;
• Very flexible schedule consisting of 40 hours per week, Slack for communication;
• Bureaucracy-free environment;
• We adore change-makers and creators so you'll be able to influence our processes;
• Highly skilled project teams that consist of senior-level professionals;
• Wise projects rotation including ML, Big Data, IoT, fintech, and healthcare;
• Paid AWS certifications and internal education

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