DevOps Engineer II

Summary

Join Tala, a company on a mission to empower the financially underserved, as a DevOps Engineer. You will design, implement, and maintain infrastructure and applications on AWS and other public cloud environments. This role requires expertise in cloud-native infrastructure, automation, and continuous deployment. You will drive automation, architect solutions, manage continuous deployment, monitor applications, and resolve issues. The ideal candidate possesses strong technical skills, experience with various tools and technologies, and excellent communication abilities. Tala offers a competitive salary and a remote-first work environment.

Requirements

• Understanding of how cloud-based web applications work and interest in measuring, analyzing, and improving distributed systems
• B.S. Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent combination of professional development training and experience
• 3-4 years of previous experience deploying and automating infrastructure in public cloud environments, using Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform or Ansible
• In-depth hands-on experience with at least one public Cloud platform
• Prior experience as a technical lead working closely with Product, Engineering and SecOps on shift-left strategies, CI/CD tools and solutions needed
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production
• Experience with Continuous Deployment tools such as Jenkins or ArgoCD
• Experience with Logging and Monitoring tools for SaaS such as Sumo, Splunk, Datadog etc
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to document and explain technical details and concepts clearly and concisely
• Flexibility to pitch in where needed across program and team
• Strong influence and teamwork skills; sound problem resolution, judgment, negotiating, and decision-making skills

Responsibilities

• Drive automation of infrastructure & platform services in Public Clouds (AWS, GCP, and Azure) using Terraform and Ansible
• Architect new solutions with development for infra & platform
• Design and manage Continuous deployment using Kubernetes, ArgoCD, and Jenkins
• Monitor applications and services within the environments & be part of the on-call rotation to resolve issues and implement strategies to prevent future occurrences
• Set up intelligent application performance alerts in observability tools to find and fix issues before they impact business services and end-users
• Learn about technologies outside of your realm of expertise that help drive

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working effectively with global teams in multiple time zones

Benefits

$130,000 - $160,000 a year