Senior DevOps AWS Lead

e-bate is an advanced B2B, SaaS Fintech solution for Rebate Management with a growing corporate customer base.

We provide innovative software solutions to help businesses efficiently manage and optimise their B2B rebate programs. Our platform, built on AWS infrastructure, empowers our retail, distribution and manufacturing clients to streamline rebate calculation processes, enhance financial visibility and maximise profitability.

Join our team as a Senior DevOps Lead and help us revolutionise an important financial and commercial area of large businesses.

Are you a seasoned DevOps professional with a passion for fintech? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where you can make a real impact? Are you unflappable under pressure?

If so, we want you!  We’re a leading Fintech SaaS company looking for a Senior DevOps Lead to join our team.

In this role, you’ll be responsible for leading our DevOps team and driving the design, development, infrastructure architecture, and the implementation and support of our DevOps strategy.

You’ll work closely with the product team to ensure our products are delivered with the highest quality and reliability. You will help the engineering and QA teams in automatising their workflow and the release process. You will ensure that our clients benefit from an infrastructure that’s scalable, stable and secure. Our environment is AWS based. Full job spec available on demand.

The ideal candidate will have extensive AWS experience and act as an AWS expert for the team outlining best practise standards and ensuring the team and the solution meet these requirements. We are seeking a candidate that demonstrates team leadership experience and senior AWS engineering capability.

• Lead the DevOps team and ensure the smooth operation of software development and deployment processes.
• Identify and implement best practices for DevOps processes to improve efficiency and productivity.
• Assess the current deployment process to identify bottlenecks and implement solutions towards a continuous deployment and continuous integration (CI/CD).
• Develop and maintain the infrastructure on Azure and AWS. Leverage AWS tools like CloudFormation, AWS Lambda, and AWS Step Functions to automate processes and improve efficiency.
• Implement automation, effective monitoring, and alerting of our software systems.
• Ensure the security of our software systems by implementing best practices and staying up-to-date with the latest security threats.
• Ensure total security compliance of our internal processes through proper password management, Role-Based Access Control, software license management for third party tools.
• Develop and implement disaster recovery strategies, including backups and failover systems, to ensure data and system availability
• Collaborate with the development team to ensure that software is built with deployment in mind.
• Collaborate with the QA team to help them with their automation processed.
• Manage the DevOps budget, ensuring that the team has the resources they need to be successful while staying within budget.
• Look for opportunities for cost savings and efficiencies and implement measures to achieve them.
• Guide architectural decisions with infrastructure and recommend approach for deployment.

Secondary Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain relationships with external technology partners, vendors, and suppliers.
• Manage vendor relationships. Ensure that the company is getting the best value for money.

KPIs:

• Deployment Frequency: The number of deployments per day, week, or month.
• Lead Time: The time it takes to go from code commit to production on deployment.
• Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR): The average time it takes to recover from a failure or outage.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Coverage: The percentage of infrastructure that is managed through IaC.
• Time to Detect: The time it takes to detect a problem or issue.
• Time to Resolve: The time it takes to resolve a problem or issue.
• Cost of DownTime: The financial cost of down=me or outages.
• Resource Utilization: The percentage of resources that are being utilized effectively.
  The above are set in line with the external client SLAs.

• Technical skills and practical expertise within the above stack.
• Leadership skills to run, motivate and coach the team.
• Analytical mind with ability to constantly prioritise and pre-empt
  possible occurring issues.
• Be responsible for technical hiring and ongoing DevOps team technical skills assessment.
• Business awareness to understand and align the goals of the team
  with the business goals and targets.
• Very good time management skills and ability to deliver under
  pressure.
• Very technology savvy.
• Expected to research and propose technologies that can improve the working of the teams.

Cloud Platform: AWS
Current containerization tools: Kubernetes, Fargate, ECS
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool: Terraform
Security tools such as AWS Cognito, KMS, Azure Active Directory
Observability Dashboards: Grafana
Programming languages: C#, Python, yaml
Database: Aurora Postgres, RDS, Redshift
Frameworks: ASP .NET, Hangfire, Entity Framework, Dapper
Cache: Redis, Amazon ElastiCache
Data processing: Apache Spark, ETL solutions AWS Glue
Messaging: Rabbit MQ, SQS
Reporting: AWS QuickSight, Athena, Telerik
Logging: Amazon CloudWatch, Cloudtrail,
SCCS: Git
Front End: React

While the focus will stay on AWS some of the above might change. The candidate will be integral part of that decision.

• Container workloads: Kubernetes, AWS ECS, AWS Fargate
• Right-sizing of EC2 instances/workloads, autoscaling, load balancing.
• Storage solutions, AWS Aurora/RDS, Redshift
• Data pipelines/transformation: AWS Glue, Apache Spark, AWS SQS, Step Functions.

If you’re up for the challenge, please send your CV and cover letter to jobs@e-bate.net with DevOps Position in the subject line. We look forward to hearing from you!