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Position Overview
As a Senior DevOps Engineer on the GCPay team, you will lead the evolution of our cloud-native platform by advancing CI/CD, release engineering, infrastructure as code (IaC), system reliability, and security operations. You will support and enhance a core technology stack built on Java, MySQL, ElasticSearch, and AWS cloud technologies, enabling secure and reliable delivery across web applications, ERP integrations, APIs, and internal services.

This role requires a hands-on engineer with broad expertise across development and operations, including automation, infrastructure management, observability, and modern DevOps toolchains. You will play a critical role in strengthening platform resilience, improving security posture, increasing delivery velocity, and championing DevOps best practices across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement scalable hosting solutions for dynamic SaaS web applications, ensuring reliability, performance, and resilience at scale

• Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of secure, scalable, and reliable Infrastructure-as-Code solutions across GCPay environments

• Establish, document, and drive adoption of engineering standards, operational processes, and DevOps best practices that improve consistency, maintainability, and delivery efficiency

• Own and continuously strengthen security and compliance practices across infrastructure and applications, including hardening, access controls, and least-privilege enforcement

• Use modern tools such as Docker, Terraform, AWS cloud technologies, and related automation frameworks to provision, manage, and deploy infrastructure and services

• Partner closely with development and testing teams throughout the development lifecycle to ensure quality, operational readiness, and successful delivery

• Drive automation across build, deployment, infrastructure, and operational workflows, and evaluate new technologies where they can improve reliability, scalability, security, or developer productivity

• Define, monitor, and improve Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and error budgets to ensure reliability goals are measurable, understood, and achieved

• Provide technical leadership in aligning platform strategy, infrastructure investments, and operational priorities with business and product requirements

• Participate in on-call rotation and lead incident response efforts, ensuring timely resolution, strong cross-functional coordination, and clear communication during production events

• Lead blameless post-incident reviews to identify root causes, drive corrective and preventive actions, and improve overall platform reliability and team effectiveness

• Contribute hands-on coding, scripting, and automation to improve tooling, deployment workflows, infrastructure management, and operational efficiency

• Own the operational health, scalability, and security posture of GCPay's core platform, including systems built on Java, MySQL, ElasticSearch, and AWS cloud technologies

• Serve as a senior technical resource and trusted partner across teams, using sound engineering judgment and business context to solve complex platform and operational challenges

• Demonstrate strong ownership, a self-starter mindset, and a commitment to continuous improvement, learning, and engineering excellence

• Solve complex problems that require in-depth evaluation of variable factors by taking a broad perspective to identify the best approach and innovative solutions

• Effectively communicate technical challenges within and across teams

• Keep yourself up-to-date with evolving technologies and showcase them with an implementation

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or related roles supporting cloud-based applications

• Advanced hands-on experience with Linux administration, including system monitoring, troubleshooting, reliability, performance, and security

• Strong experience managing large-scale cloud infrastructure, with deep expertise in AWS preferred

• Proven track record of architecting and operating large-scale, highly available, and resilient systems

• Strong scripting and automation skills using languages such as Bash, Python, or similar

• Expert-level knowledge of AWS services such as EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, ELB, S3, IAM, VPC, DynamoDB, and RDS

• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and modern container orchestration technologies

• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation

• Strong experience with CI/CD tools and software delivery workflows, including Git, Jenkins, Artifactory, or similar technologies

• Experience with observability, log analysis, and monitoring tools such as CloudWatch, Splunk, Dynatrace, etc

• Solid experience with relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL, including strong SQL skills

• Experience supporting SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar compliance and audit requirements

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences. If you are still reading, include Keystone in your introduction to the recruiter and hiring manager, and describe a complex situation you have owned

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Interest or Experience with incorporating AI Tools/Agents into DevOps/SRE practices to improve quality of work, ease of development/deployment

• Relevant experience with payment technologies, fintech, or banking

• Experience driving reliability initiatives, operational excellence, and service maturity in DevOps or SRE environments

• Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional teams, provide technical leadership, and help set platform or operational direction

• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to work independently and navigate complex technical challenges

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