DevOps Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLE

REPAY is a fast-paced FinTech company experiencing significant growth and expansion. We are adding a DevOps Engineer to our growing team. The DevOps Engineer works as part of a team of engineers focused on building, maintaining, and supporting cloud native infrastructure for REPAY's SaaS platform. The engineer will be primarily focused on implementing configuration management to automate the setup and configuration of servers and environments using Puppet and Terraform. The engineer also be responsible for maintaining and supporting the various CI/CD application tools along with assist in completing departmental objectives through assigned duties.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Monitor, maintain, and support applications in Azure and AWS cloud Development and Test environments.
• Work with internal engineering teams to identify and implement improvements to infrastructure (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, monitoring etc.
• Write code and contribute to the software architecture of a highly concurrent, high throughput system on AWS cloud.
• Contribute to roadmap development, execution, and releases.
• Manage Azure and AWS cloud Inventory and new infrastructure deployments.
• Assist the team in achieving established goals and departmental objectives.
• Participate in an environment that emphasizes trust, open communication, creative thinking, and cohesive team effort.
• Implement and support configuration management using Puppet and IaC with Terraform to automate the creation, setup, and configuration of servers and environments.
• Contribute to infrastructure improvements, architecture, development, and deployment.
• Standardize, develop, and maintain common development tools and infrastructure, such as CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, cluster management, config management, etc.
• Maintain professional and technical knowledge by following the broader industry, attending training sessions and educational workshops.
• Help maintain a workplace culture that is consistent with the overall organization with an emphasis on the REPAY mission, vision, guiding principles, and values.
• Maintain and adhere to quality and service standards, analyze, and resolve issues, identify trends, and recommend improvements.
• Develop documentation, including but not limited to platform requirements and functional specifications.
• Concurrently work on a variety of projects and tasks using a variety of technologies.
• May travel to visit clients or other REPAY offices throughout North America to participate in design sessions and deliver technical presentations and training
• Other duties as assigned
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SKILLS & EXPERIENCE NEEDED

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience Technical certifications are preferred
• 3+ years of knowledge and experience with Puppet as a configuration management tool.
• 3+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, microservice architectures, Operations or DevOps roles.
• Able to write Puppet code to customize Windows server configurations.
• Experience with Terraform as infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tool.
• Proficiency in scripting languages like Python, Ruby, or PowerShell.
• Experience with Git or other version control systems.
• Experience with Azure and Amazon AWS cloud services such as EC2, S3, RDS etc. is required.
• Experience in building, running, and scaling microservices using Kubernetes, Istio, Docker, monitoring services like Prometheus, DataDog, New Relic etc. is strongly preferred.
• Experience with building, managing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines like TeamCity, Fortify, SonarCloud, Octopus Deploy, CircleCI, and Argo.
• Troubleshooting expertise across different layers of the technology stack.
• Proficiency in Windows, Azure, AWS, and distributed application architectures.
• Experience with configuration management and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as Puppet and Terraform.
• Experience in distributed applications on public cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, Azure etc.
• Experience working with and supporting software development teams.
• Experience with different software development languages (e.g., Java, .NET, python, go, etc.)
• Experience with security and compliance within an organization (e.g. ITIL, PCI, SOC, etc.)
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills and an ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in all client communications.
• Ability to influence others, build relationships, manage conflicts, and handle negotiation