Automation Engineer

Who Are We?

WEX Inc. is a leading and growing global provider of payment processing, information

management and fleet card payment solutions. 

We hire people who share our passion for continuous innovation and client service that

is unparalleled in the industry. 

If you are looking for a growing career – come be part of WEX today!  Great Place To

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We’re the Shared Business Services team at WEX in Enterprise Architecture.  We are in the process of building and scaling our “Paved Road”, or platform of services and applications that set the standard for processes and tooling for development teams across the company.

We look at trends, tools, processes and methods that are easy to use and help with automation of software builds, storage, and deployments. 

From new internal product rollouts, to automation, to supporting development teams, we’ve got more work than we can handle and we’re looking for great people to come along for the ride.

Our team works hard, covers for one another, and maintains work-life balance. We own

our results and we take pride in the ownership of everything we do (check your ego at

the door, and takes pride in owning results!). We all are comfortable balancing the need

to move fast with the realities of working in a highly regulated space like payments. 

About the role 

As a mid level engineer, this role will also play a pivotal role in consulting with teams across the company, researching and evaluating tools and technologies that support DevOps principles and assist in building reference examples that can be used by the whole company.  

This role will also play a key leadership role in driving standardization of technology toolkit from concept to implementation and help teams migrate to standard solutions

Responsibilities

• Design and help develop automation frameworks enabling teams roll out micro services leveraging API Gateways, Tokenization, API Security, Service Mesh and Containerization technologies

• Research, evaluate and recommend technologies and usage patterns collaborating with development and devops resources across the organization

• Provide coaching, mentoring and expertise in standard tools used for software development and help evolve the future roadmap: Containerization, CI/CD pipelines, automated version control systems, software artifacts management tools, etc

• Drive collaboration with architects, dev teams, dev ops engineers across WEX and external teams like Cloud Engineering, Information security and compliance to ensure corporate compliance of CI/CD release pipelines.

• Deploy and maintain solutions that are high availability, secure, compliant, resilient and multi region capable

• Respond to production and service escalations.  Lead incident and root-cause analysis with calm and an eye towards service improvement

• Plan and coordinate with SRE team for service upgrades, compliance related activities for the platform infrastructure  

• Build HA/DR solutions, test and ensure the solution and processes are well documented

• Automate tasks to drive consistency, reduce complexity, and eliminate/minimize human involvement wherever possible

• Work as an integral part of productive engineering teams that put an emphasis on code quality, continuous delivery, peer reviews, and strong engineering practices

At a minimum, you have 

• Experience building Microservices using Python/Java and RDBMS

• Experience building REST API based services, Authentication and Authorization using industry standard protocols

• Cloud experience in AWS with emphasis on Security, VPC networking and creating HA architectures and autoscaling

• Experience working as a Developer in an engineering team that builds cloud-native platforms

• Hands-on experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform)

• Experience setting up a complete DevOps environment and CI/CD platform from scratch leading to canary releases, A/B testing and blue/green deployments

• Experience with monitoring in the cloud to have continuous scrutiny over platform/application performance, billing, security, and anomaly detection

• The ability and appetite to learn new technologies fast and find ways to automate routine tasks

• Exemplary written and verbal communication skills in English

It would be nice if you 

• Experience with API Gateways, GitHub, Auth0

• Experience with Cloud platform(s) (AWS GCP, Microsoft Azure) 

• Can speak to operational experience, logging, monitoring and tracing technologies

• An understanding of GitOps