Senior Platform (DevOps) Engineer - Sri Lanka (Remote)

Trust Payments have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Platform (DevOps) Engineer- Sri Lanka to join their team.

Location: Sri Lanka Port City - Remote

Salary: Competitive

Job Type: Full-time/ Permanent

Senior Platform (DevOps) Engineer – The Role

This is a Platform Engineering role.  The successful applicant will:

• Improve the efficiency of cross-functional Feature Teams at all stages of the Software Development Lifecycle.
• Ensure the Platform - and all-consuming Features - are secure and compliant with all relevant standards (including PCI DSS Level 1).

Senior Platform (DevOps) Engineer – Duties & Responsibilities

• To design, build, maintain, and improve the functions of our internal Platform as required by its Customers.
• To actively engage with all Scrum ceremonies to ensure that every Sprint delivers the expected business value.
• To resolve operational issues raised by our Customers by identifying root cause and implementing appropriate solutions in a timely and communicative manner.
• To ensure the Team maintains a high standard of code quality by maintaining an awareness of all relevant best practises and participating constructively in code reviews.
• To provide appropriate guidance, support, and technical leadership to other Team Members.
• To execute all reasonable tasks assigned by the Development Manager or Technical Leads.
• No job description can cover every issue which may arise within the role at various times. In order to maintain an effective service, you may be required to undertake any other reasonable tasks, which is broadly consistent with those in this document as determined by your line manager

Senior Platform (DevOps) Engineer – Experience & Qualifications:

• AWS Services - Including (amongst others): VPC; EC2; ELB; ECS; Lambda; API Gateway; CloudWatch; RDS; DynamoDB; KMS; IAM.
• Designing synchronous and event-driven architectures that are highly-availability, fault-tolerant, and performant.
• Cloud Native Containerisation – Experience running production services using cloud-based container orchestration technologies.
• Networking and communication – Working knowledge of the OSI model and an ability to securely design and debug networks in the cloud.
• CI/CD Tools (ideally GitLab).
• IaC Tools (ideally Terraform).
• Shell Scripting (ideally Bash).
• Version Control Software (ideally Git).
• The Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Data protection.

 Desired Understanding/Experience:

• Service Mesh implementation and operation.
• Distributed Tracing implementation and operation.
• Prior experience with monitoring and observability products (ideally DataDog).
• Familiarity with API design: and an understanding of REST, gRPC, and GraphQL.
• Ability to develop modern, secure, and testable software using High Level Languages (ideally Python).
• Ability to write test code at all levels of the testing pyramid.
• Experience in financial services, ideally payments (gateways, acquiring and processing)

Choosing to work with Trust Payments in our Sri Lanka office can come with a host of unique benefits thanks to our partnership with Port City Colombo. These include:

Core Points:

• 0% Personal Income Tax: Employees can enjoy the benefit of no personal income tax, in turn maximising the employee's take-home pay.
• Remuneration in Great Britain Pounds: Additionally, employees will receive competitive salaries (GBP).
• Provident and Trust Fund Contributions: Port City contributes to the Employees’ Provident Fund and Employees’ Trust Fund.

Additionally:

• Work from home: Employees can enjoy the flexibility of remote working.