Senior Infrastructure DevOps Engineer (Remote)

Upgrade is a fintech unicorn founded in 2017. We are the fastest-growing company in the Americas (Financial Times). In the last five years, over 15 million people have applied for an Upgrade card or loan, and we have delivered over $10 billion in affordable and responsible credit. Our innovative Upgrade Card is the fastest growing credit card in America (Nilson Report). Combining the flexibility of a credit card with the low cost of an installment loan helps us redefine banking.

Upgrade has been named a “Best Place to Work in the Bay Area” three years in a row, one of the “Top Companies to work for in Arizona”, “Best Engineering Team" and we have received awards for being a best company for Diversity, Women, Culture, and Veterans.

We are looking for new team members who get excited about designing and delivering new and better products to join a team of 1300 talented and passionate professionals. Come join us if you like to tackle big problems and make a meaningful difference in people's lives.

This is a remote position based in the United States.

What You'll Do:

• Build a resilient, secure, and efficient cloud based platform.
• Automate deployment, monitoring, management and incident response.
• Monitor and troubleshoot platform issues.
• Build and scale the technology infrastructure to meet rapidly increasing demand.
• Manage cross-functional requirements working with various company stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Development and QA to bring new features and services into production.
• Develop and improve operational practices and procedures.

What We Look For:

• 5+ years of relevant experience.
• In-depth knowledge of AWS services and hands-on experience in AWS provisioning.
• Experience with Kubernetes (1.20+) and containerized applications.
• Understanding of microservices architecture and debugging/investigation techniques.
• Strong understanding of systems, networking and troubleshooting techniques.
• Experience in automated build pipeline, continuous integration and continuous deployment.
• Knowledge of cloud monitoring, logging and cost management tools.
• Strong programming/scripting knowledge - Python, Go, Helm.
• Ability to operate in an agile, entrepreneurial start-up environment.
• AWS certification is a plus.
• Experience with other IaaS platforms is a plus.

Our Tech Stack:

• Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTracing/OpenTelemetry.
• Infrastructure as code: Terraform, Ansible.
• CD: GitOps, ArgoCD, ArgoRollouts.
• CI: Jenkins.
• Optional: Java, Groovy.
• AWS: EKS, ECR, EC2, LB, route53, ElasticSearch, Shield, WAF

What We Offer You:

• Competitive salary and stock option plan.
• 100% paid coverage of medical, dental and vision insurance.
• 401(k) company match program.
• Unlimited vacation.
• Learning stipend for personal growth and development.
• Paid parental leave.
  
• Health and wellness initiatives.