What are the responsibilities and job description for the DevOps Engineer position at SoLo Funds?
SoLo Funds is on a mission to help the millions of Americans that live paycheck to paycheck and can’t survive a money crunch. Launched in 2018 as a unique and proprietary lending marketplace, today SoLo is the leading alternative financial solution providing the fastest loans available for borrowers and the opportunity for lenders to earn significant returns. We are a VC funded (Pre-Series B) Fintech CNBC Disruptor 50 company backed by Acme Capital and Serena Ventures alongside partnerships with Visa and Kiva.
Please note: we are not partnering with recruiting agencies/firms at this time.Our Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) fill the mission-critical role of ensuring that our complex, web-scale systems are healthy, monitored, automated, and designed to scale. You will use your background as an operations generalist to work closely with our development teams from the early stages of design all the way through identifying and resolving production issues. The ideal candidate will be passionate about an operations role that involves deep knowledge of both the application and the product, and will also believe that automation is a key component to operating large-scale systems.
What You'll Do:
- Serve as a primary point responsible for the overall health, performance, and capacity of one or more of our Internet-facing services
- Gain deep knowledge of our complex applications.
- Assist in the roll-out and deployment of new product features and installations to facilitate our rapid iteration and constant growth.
- Develop tools to improve our ability to rapidly deploy and effectively monitor custom applications in a large-scale UNIX environment.
- Work closely with development teams to ensure that platforms are designed with “operability” in mind.
- Function well in a fast-paced, rapidly-changing environment.
- Participate in a 24x7 rotation for second-tier escalations.
**You’re a Great Fit With:**
- 4 years in a UNIX-based large-scale web operations/administration role
- Ability to work core hours of 9am-1pm PT (UTC-8:00/-7:00)**
- Proficiency in AWS for deploying and managing applications and infrastructure
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation
- Hands-on experience with containerization tools such as Docker, specifically in ECS and EKS environments
- Strong scripting skills in Python or Bash for automation and task orchestration.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as CircleCI, GitHub Actions
- Experience working with monitoring and alerting tools such as Datadog/CloudFormation and PagerDuty, and being part of on call rotations
- Experience with Networking, Network Security, Data Security
- Excellent communication skills to explain technical challenges to non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to align goals and improve system reliability.
**You’re an All-Star Fit With:**
- Previous experience working with geographically-distributed coworkers
- Experience with shift-left testing strategies and tools
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About SoLo Funds
Launched in 2018 as a unique and proprietary lending marketplace, today SoLo is the leading alternative financial solution providing the fastest loan option to borrowers and option for lenders to obtain significant value. We are on a mission to provide the most intelligent (affordable financially empowering) option for funds and banking services by leveraging the best technologies in the world.
**Our Benefits**
* Remote Workplace* Generous Vacation Time (for US locations)
* Full Healthcare Benefits (for US locations)
* 401K Offered (for US locations)
* Posted Salary Range is for USA region