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20% of fortune 500 fintech trust Kunai for engineering talent.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
85 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior DevOps Engineer
Kunai
Kunai builds full-stack technology solutions for banks, credit and payment networks, infrastructure providers, and their customers. Together, we are changing the world’s relationship with financial services. At Kunai, we help our clients modernize, capitalize on emerging trends, and evolve their business for the coming decades by remaining tech-agnostic and human-centered. We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to support client engagements by building, operating, and improving cloud infrastructure and delivery pipelines for production-grade systems. The initial project will focus on building and scaling a billing management platform, with an emphasis on production readiness, reliability, observability, and operational excellence. What you’ll do: - Design and implement resilient, secure, and scalable cloud environments to support client platforms in production. - Drive production readiness and operations: monitoring and alerting, incident support, runbooks, capacity planning, reliability improvements, and release readiness. - Build and maintain CI/CD workflows and reconfigure/enhance an existing proprietary pipeline using Argo. - Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK). - Support containerized deployments and orchestration using Docker and ECS. - Develop automation scripts and utilities in Python and/or Bash for deployment, configuration, and operational tasks. - Implement and maintain service configuration and deployment automation across environments (dev/test/stage/prod). - Configure and manage cloud networking and access controls, including Security Groups. - Implement and maintain monitoring/observability capabilities (metrics, logs, traces, dashboards) and establish actionable SLOs/SLIs. - Plan and execute performance testing and scalability validation; partner with engineering to remediate bottlenecks and improve system performance. - Collaborate with engineering, architecture, security, and client stakeholders to triage issues, estimate work, and continuously improve delivery and reliability. Required skills: - 5+ years of hands-on DevOps / Platform / SRE experience supporting production systems. - Strong experience with at least one public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure). - Demonstrated practical experience with DevOps tools and practices, with a clear focus on production readiness and operations. - Experience designing and operating resilient systems (availability, scalability, fault tolerance). - Strong Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, and/or CDK. - CI/CD experience, including adapting and improving existing pipelines; experience with Argo preferred. - Containerization and orchestration experience with Docker and ECS. - Scripting/automation skills with Python and/or Bash. - Experience with service configuration and deployment automation. - Experience configuring and managing Security Groups and related cloud networking controls. - Hands-on experience with monitoring/observability and performance testing in production-like environments. Nice to have: - Experience supporting billing, payments, or financial platforms. - Familiarity with SRE practices (error budgets, incident management, postmortems). - Exposure to multi-account/multi-environment cloud setups and governance. Our success over the past 20 years is rooted in our exceptional team, which thrives in a culture of collaboration, creativity, and continuous learning. We are proud to offer our employees a range of benefits, including competitive compensation, professional development opportunities, and flexible work arrangements, all designed to help them thrive. As we continue to expand, we remain committed to cultivating an environment where people feel valued, have a voice, and are given the tools to grow—both personally and professionally—while pushing the boundaries of innovation in the fintech industry. Minimum Degree Required: - Bachelor’s Degree, in lieu of a degree, demonstrating in addition to the minimum years of experience required for the role, three years of specialized training and/or progressively responsible work experience in technology for each missing year of college is required
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