Specialist DevOps Automation Engineer, WEX Inc.

Specialist DevOps Automation Engineer, WEX Inc.

Company WEX Inc.
Job title Specialist DevOps Automation Engineer
Job location Brazil – Remote
Type Full Time

Responsibilities:

  • Architect, design and help develop automation frameworks enabling teams roll out micro services leveraging API Gateways, Tokenization, API Security, Service Mesh and Containerization technologies
  • Research, evaluate and recommend technologies and usage patterns collaborating with development and devops resources across the organization
  • Provide coaching, mentoring and expertise in standard tools used for software development and help evolve the future roadmap: Containerization, CI/CD pipelines, automated version control systems, software artifacts management tools, etc
  • Drive collaboration with architects, dev teams, dev ops engineers across WEX and external teams like Cloud Engineering, Information security and compliance to ensure corporate compliance of CI/CD release pipelines.
  • Deploy and maintain solutions that are high availability, secure, compliant, resilient and multi region capable
  • Respond to production and service escalations.  Lead incident and root-cause analysis with calm and an eye towards service improvement
  • Plan and coordinate with SRE team for service upgrades, compliance related activities for the platform infrastructure
  • Build HA/DR solutions, test and ensure the solution and processes are well documented
  • Automate tasks to drive consistency, reduce complexity, and eliminate/minimize human involvement wherever possible
  • Work as an integral part of productive engineering teams that put an emphasis on code quality, continuous delivery, peer reviews, and strong engineering practices

Requirements & Skills:

  • Experience in *nix OS and scripting experience in Python and Bash
  • Cloud experience in AWS with emphasis on Security, VPC networking and creating HA architectures and autoscaling
  • Hands-on experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform)
  • Experience building REST API based services
  • Experience setting up a complete DevOps environment and CI/CD platform from scratch leading to canary releases, A/B testing, and blue/green deployments
  • Experience working as a DevOps engineer in an engineering team that builds cloud-native platforms
  • Experience with monitoring in the cloud to have continuous scrutiny over platform/application performance, billing, security, and anomaly detection
  • The ability and appetite to learn new technologies fast and find ways to automate routine tasks
  • Exemplary written and verbal communication skills in English.
  • It would be nice if you : API Gateways, AzureDevOps, GitHub, Cloud platform(s) (AWS GCP, Microsoft Azure)
  • Can speak to operational experience, logging, monitoring and tracing technologies
  • An understanding of GitOps.

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