Senior DevOps Engineer

Nium, Global Leader in Payments   Nium, the global leader in real-time, cross-border payments, was founded on the mission to deliver the global payments infrastructure of tomorrow, today. With the onset of the global economy, its payments infrastructure is shaping how banks, fintechs, and businesses everywhere collect, convert, and disburse funds instantly across borders.   Its payout network supports 100 currencies and spans 220+ markets, 100 of which in real-time. Funds can be disbursed to accounts, wallets, and cards and collected locally in 35 markets. Nium's growing card issuance business is already available in 34 countries. Nium holds regulatory licenses and authorizations in more than 40 countries, enabling seamless onboarding, rapid integration, and compliance – independent of geography. The company is co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore. 
About the Team
The DevOps Engineer in the Technical Operations department is responsible to maintain, support and improve the infrastructure required for a DevOps culture, providing right tools and processes needed to seamlessly and efficiently ship code every day with an acceptable level of quality. The engineer will be part of the team driving the DevOps processes and collaboration between product management, software engineering, and operations.    The role falls under the Technical Operations department, which is responsible for the provisioning, configuration, operation and maintenance of Nium infrastructure. These systems include highly available and scalable production Java based web applications, as well as Pre-Prod, QA and development environments and tools. Apart from the existing proprietary and ancillary systems, Nium is building the next-generation microservice platform, with fully automated release and deployment cycles, making use of hybrid-cloud infrastructure. The DevOps engineer will be part of the team managing all systems and migrating services to new infrastructure whilst abiding with SLAs.

Key Responsibilities

• Be an active DevOps advocate
• Establish and employ Continuous Integration practices with tools such as Jenkins or other CI Tools
• Create and manage kubernetes clusters or Cloud-managed container orchestartors like EKS
• Deploy applications on Kubernetes with tools like Helm Charts
• Deploy infrastructure as Code using tools like Terraform
• Automate processes of all systems, using tools like Rundeck, Ansible and Puppet
• Maintain the automated monitoring at all levels: Hardware, Networking, Virtualisation, Operating Systems, Databases, and all Applications, on dedicated hardware or cloud, using tools such as Zabbix, Prometheus and Grafana
• Create and maintain technical documentation
• Holistically improve all aspects of our infrastructure, including reducing costs, improving build and deployment times, streamlining environment provisioning, lowering load times, incorporating the latest techniques and technologies, and more
• Monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure issues and provide timely support to customers and internal departments
• Be part of the on-call technical support team
• Interact with third-party suppliers and other departments as required
• Managing change to production systems.

Requirements

• Hands on experience with cloud solutions ideally AWS
• Kubernetes, Docker, Helm and Terraform is a must
• Strong working knowledge of Linux operating systems and scripting languages such as Bash, Groovy and Python
• Experience in building CI/CD processes
• Experience with Jenkins, SonarQube, Gitlab and Bitbucket
• Experience in monitoring solutions like Zabbix, Prometheus and Grafana
• Experience with DB administration is a plus (Mysql, MSSQL, NoSql MongoDB).

What we offer at Nium   We Value Performance: Through competitive salaries, performance bonuses, sales commissions, equity for specific roles and recognition programs, we ensure that all our employees are well rewarded and incentivized for their hard work. 
We Care: The wellness of Nium’ers is our #1 priority. We offer medical coverage along with 24/7 employee assistance program, generous vacation programs including our year-end shut down. We also provide a flexible hybrid working environment (3 days per week in the office). 
We Upskill Ourselves: We are curious, and always want to learn more with a focus on upskilling ourselves. We provide role-specific training, internal workshops, and a learning stipend. 
We Constantly Innovate: Since our inception, Nium has received constant recognition and awards for how we approach both our business and talent opportunities. Check out CNBC World’s Top Fintech Companies 2024.  
We Celebrate Together: We recognize that work is also about creating great relationships with each other. We celebrate together with company-wide social events, team bonding activities, happy hours, team offsites, and much more!  
We Thrive With Diversity: Nium is truly a global company, with more than 33 nationalities, based in 18+ countries and more than 10 office locations. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing a safe and welcoming environment for everyone.   For more detailed region-specific benefits:  https://www.nium.com/careers#careers-perks  
For more information visit www.nium.com 
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