Devops Engineer II

DevOps Engineer II

Nium, the global leader in real-time, cross-border payments, was founded on the mission to deliver the global payments infrastructure of tomorrow, today. With the onset of the global economy, its payments infrastructure is shaping how banks, fintechs, and businesses everywhere collect, convert, and disburse funds instantly across borders.

Its payout network supports 100 currencies and spans 220+ markets, 100 of which in real-time. Funds can be disbursed to accounts, wallets, and cards and collected locally in 35 markets. Nium's growing card issuance business is already available in 34 countries. Nium holds regulatory licenses and authorizations in more than 40 countries, enabling seamless onboarding, rapid integration, and compliance – independent of geography. The company is co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore.

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated DevOps Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter, a creative problem-solver, and eager to learn new technologies. You will be instrumental in designing, building, and maintaining our cloud infrastructure, with a strong focus on automation, scalability, security, and reliability. This is an exciting opportunity for a professional who is passionate about modern cloud-native principles, practices and operational excellence powered by AIOps.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage a robust, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure on AWS Cloud.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to provision and manage cloud resources.
• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and ArgoCD.
• Ensure the smooth operation of existing systems by managing routine maintenance, including upgrades, installations, backups, and restores, and adhering to Disaster Recovery (DR) plans.
• Design and implement automation pipelines to continuously improve processes.
• Create and maintain clear documentation, such as SOPs, user guides, and maintenance activity logs, to ensure smooth operations.
• Implement and manage observability platforms for monitoring, logging, and tracing to gain deep insights into system performance and behavior.
• Manage and scale containerized applications using Kubernetes and AWS ECS clusters.
• Harden and secure operating systems, containers, and cloud infrastructure following a secure by design approach and compliant to CIS benchmarks.
• Implement and enforce defence in depth security measures, including network security, identity and access management, and vulnerability scanning.
• Ensure regulatory and compliance requirements are met, including ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and others.
• Manage and monitor database instances, specifically RDS Aurora, RedShift, MongoDB etc.
• Utilize Cloudflare for content delivery, security, and performance optimization.
• Create and manage machine images using Packer for consistent and secure environments.
• Apply GitOps principles to manage infrastructure and applications, with all changes version-controlled in Git.
• Embrace shift-left practices to integrate security and quality throughout the development lifecycle.
• Work with DevSecOps methodologies, embedding security controls and practices into the CI/CD pipeline.
• Leverage AIOps tools for intelligent monitoring, alerting, and incident management.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts using various scripting languages.
• Manage and optimize complex Jenkins pipelines for various application stacks.
• Provide expertise in Git for version control and collaborative development.

Requirements

• Min of 2-4 yrs experience as DevOps Engineer.
• AWS Cloud: Hands on experience and deep understanding and hands-on experience with core AWS services.
• Compute: Hands on experience on Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, AL2, AL2023.
• Storage: Amazon S3, EBS, EFS, KMS.
• Networking: Amazon VPC, ELB, Route 53, Cloudflare.
• IaC: Terraform, CloudFormation.
• CI/CD: Jenkins, ArgoCD.
• Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, Alpine, Java & NodeJS.
• Security: OS hardening, Container hardening, Security best practices, Defence in Depth.
• Automation: Packer, Scripting languages (Python, Bash, Groovy).
• Observability: Grafana, ELK, DataDog