Senior Member of Technical Staff - Devops

About Us:

At Docyt, we are at the forefront of building cutting-edge financial technology solutions to simplify and automate accounting and financial management for businesses. Our platform team is responsible for managing our DevOps infrastructure, microservices platform, and ensuring the smooth, secure, and efficient operation of our production systems.

We are seeking a highly experienced Principal Member of Technical Staff (PMTS) for our Platform team. This role will provide technical leadership, mentorship, and hands-on expertise to ensure the ongoing success of our DevOps and platform initiatives.

As the Senior Member of Technical Staff, you will:

1. Lead the Platform Team: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to a team of 3 engineers focusing on DevOps infrastructure and microservices platform improvement.
2. CI/CD Optimization: Improve and automate our continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) release system, using Jenkins, Groovy, and BitBucket Commit API.
3. Pipeline Development: Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for generating HTTP client libraries using Swagger-Codegen.
4. Static Code Analysis: Oversee improvements to our static code analysis tools and processes, working with technologies like RoboCop and ESLint.
5. API Documentation Automation: Streamline API documentation by integrating Swagger-Codegen into our development workflow.
6. Alerting and Monitoring Systems: Enhance our monitoring systems (Prometheus) by reducing alert noise and establishing more accurate alert routing mechanisms to service owners.
7. Cloud Infrastructure Migration: Lead the migration of our Elasticsearch cluster to AWS for more robust and scalable log collection.
8. Cost Optimization: Work closely with the engineering team to reduce our cloud infrastructure costs without sacrificing performance or reliability.
9. Microservices Deployment: Collaborate with Product teams to deploy new microservices, ensuring smooth integration and minimal downtime.
10. Security & Compliance: Support SecOps in maintaining SOC2 Type II compliance, security audits, and responding to security incidents.
11. Production Support: Triage and respond to production incidents, ensuring high availability and reliability of our systems.
12. Infrastructure Support: Oversee the management and support of existing infrastructure, including Postgres, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Kafka, and Elasticsearch.

Requirements

Qualifications:

• 4-7 years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or a related field.
• Proven experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Jenkins, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Expertise in Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Grafana, Kafka, and message brokers (RabbitMQ, Debezium).
• Proficient in scripting and automation (Python, Ruby, Groovy).
• Hands-on experience with static code analysis tools like RoboCop and ESLint.
• Experience in managing and migrating cloud infrastructure, especially on AWS.
• Strong knowledge of security practices and compliance frameworks, especially SOC2.
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and supporting microservice architecture.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills with the ability to mentor and lead a team.
• Experience in cost optimization of cloud services.
  
  Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience in supporting SecOps processes and compliance, including SOC2 Type II.
• Hands-on experience with API documentation tools like Swagger-Codegen.
• Experience in reducing operational noise through effective alerting systems.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Being early joiner in a fast-growing FinTech startup
• While we're growing ourselves, we'd settle for nothing less than mutual growth. We want our candidates wanting to grow with us
• Company-provided laptop and necessary hardware to ensure your set up for success.
• An inclusive and motivating work culture that values team collaboration
• You choose your own space. Work from home or wherever you choose from.