DevOps Engineer

About the Company:

Xformative Payment Systems is building its technical team and seeks to hire a DevOps Engineer. XPS is at the cutting edge of the Fintech industry, specializing in cloud-native payment processing solutions. XPS is a late stage start up that was conceptualized, established, and owned by Total Administrative Systems Corp (TASC) a benefit TPA to offer card based and payment product capabilities associated with healthcare and benefits. The business has new leadership and is entering its growth phase and will be expanding beyond its current markets.

At XPS, every member of our small, agile team can drive and create impactful work. Our flexible and fully remote work setup allows you to balance your professional and personal life seamlessly while contributing to our exciting growth journey.

Position Summary:

The DevOps Engineer is responsible for supporting software development through efficient deployment processes, automation, and infrastructure management. This role ensures smooth collaboration between development and operations teams, optimizes workflows, maintains system reliability, and implements best practices to improve software delivery and operational efficiency.

Responsibilities:

• Deploy and maintain critical applications on cloud-native, distributed, serverless architecture.
• Implement automation, observability, monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Manage efficient and reliable CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments to help minimize developer friction
• Design and implement secure automation solutions for development, testing, and production environments.
• Implement industry best practices for system hardening and configuration management, in conjunction with the SecOps team.
• Improve system reliability through automation, monitoring, and operational best practices.
• Sustain and improve the process of knowledge sharing throughout the engineering team.
• Support and work alongside a cross-functional engineering team.
• Have on call responsibilities in rotation with the engineering team.
• Operate within Xformative’s guidelines pursuant to the Employee Handbook and all Policies and Procedures
• Perform additional duties as requested by Supervisor and/or Management

Competencies:

• Strong programming skills (Node, Typescript).
• Proficient in automation tools (GitHub Actions, Serverless, etc.).
• Knowledge of AWS monitoring and logging tools such as Amazon Cloudwatch, AWS CloudTrail.
• Exceptional attention to detail with a preference for highly structured procedures
• Experience maintaining and deploying highly-available, fault-tolerant systems at scale.
• A drive towards automating repetitive tasks.
• Expertise with AWS such as IAM, VPC, ECS.
• Experience implementing CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CodeBuild).
• Operational experience with NoSQL databases such as Amazon DynamoDB.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform, Serverless Framework, AWS Cloudformation).
• Effective communication skills.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience in a similar role within the technology sector.
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.
• 3 or more years of large-scale distributed system development.
• Fintech experience preferred, or equivalent experience with regulated environments with compliance requirements (e.g., SOC2, PCI DSS)
• 3 or more years working in DevOps.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools (Github Actions preferred)
• Experience working with AWS and its managed products (AWS Lambda, ECS, SNS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon CloudWatch)
• Familiarity with control plane architecture, supporting multiple AWS accounts and organizations.
• Strong incident response skills across detection, investigation, containment, and recovery especially in complex cloud-native environments.
• Willingness to participate in a shared on-call rotation for security incidents

CORPORATE CORE COMPETENCIES:

1. Drive Action & Results

Take on new opportunities with enthusiasm

Achieve results even in tough circumstances

Take personal accountability for decisions and actions

1. Adapt to Change

Operate effectively when things are uncertain

Proactively acquire and evaluate information and adapt approach to match shifting demands/situations

Rebound from setbacks

1. Embrace Innovation

Create new and better ways to approach challenges and develop solutions

Learn through experimentation

Encourage feedback and seek opportunities to work better/smarter/faster

Show personal commitment and take action to continuously improve

1. Create Diversity & Foster Collaboration

Actively bring, seek, engage, and honor diverse perspectives

Identify and address barriers to inclusion to ensure equity and center belonging

Work collaboratively and build partnerships to meet shared objectives

Benefits Overview:

Voluntary Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, FSA, Voluntary Life, LTD, 401(k), merchant discounts

Core Benefits: Basic Life (with AD&D), PTO, Holidays + Floating Holidays, STD, EAP, Paid Volunteer Hours, Paid Innovation Hours

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While this is primarily a sedentary role, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee is also required to sit, stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.