As part of our continuing strategy to grow and adjust to an ever-changing business and technology landscape, we are looking to add a DevOps engineer to our team. We are looking to bring on an experienced DevOps Engineer with strong architecture, and infrastructure design background. This position is a leading role on our growing Engineering team and handles a range of DevOps requirements including leading a fully automated cloud infrastructure environment from the provisioning, deployment, management, and oversight of a highly scalable set of SaaS services. You'll be primarily responsible for optimizing the performance and costs of our ongoing SaaS deployment and tooling.

Company Overview:

Credit Strong is a rapidly growing technology company with a community bank charter. Located in Austin, Texas, we are one of the best performing banks in the country and a nationwide leader in consumer-friendly, responsible financial innovation. We’re well on our way to building a $1 billion tech company with revenues approaching $50 million and a CAGR of almost 100%. ACB has made the INC 5000 fastest-growing private companies in America list for the last 6 years in a row.

As a pioneer in fintech and banking, we have our own technology platform, bank charter, are profitable, and are self-funded so we control our own destiny. We are a 5-star rated independent community bank and member of the FDIC. We have a host of products coming through our pipeline with a significant investment that will only improve our growth trajectory.

With all this growth and opportunity, we need an exceptional DevOps Engineer to come join our team and help us build best-in-class infrastructure.

Our Culture:

We combine the stability of a profitable bank with the creativity and energy of a fintech startup. We have a casual demeanor yet execute with professional precision. You’ll enjoy a culture of customer-oriented and responsible innovation. We expect you to have the innovation, creativity, and drive for growth of a rapidly scaling technology company, with a work-life balance of a normal human.

Our Core Values:

Every member of our team embodies our core values. We work, hire, and promote by these values.

• Take Initiative – A bias to action
• No Big Egos – Self-confidence with humility
• Honesty – Direct forthright communication
• Wicked Smart – Intellectually and emotionally self-aware

If your favorite pronouns are “I” and “me”, you won’t be a great fit. If you get inspired by wanting your next career milestone to read: “Analytics Engineer on a TEAM that grew revenue from $50 million to $500 million in 5 years.”, we’d like to chat with you.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Monitor all dev, QA, Staging, and Production infrastructure and respond rapidly to urgent situations
• Support global DevOps team to put pro-active monitoring in place for all systems, with automated alerts and efficient communication systems for distributed teams to work together to resolve DevOps (or other) urgent issues
• Work with the software development team to integrate DevOps planning into software architecture design
• Collaborate with global dev/DevOps team to ensure 99.99% uptime for systems with millions of users and rapid growth
• Build and optimize CI, CD System for operation and deployment as automatically as possible
• Ensure best security practices are enabled at an AWS Account, Resource and application level
• Support the implementation and reporting of AWS cost controls and usage

Requirements & Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field, advanced degree a plus.
• Possess at least 4 years of work experience as a DevOps Engineer with exposure to state of the art technologies in the Dev Ops space.

• Strong experience and hands-on skills with most or all of 
  • Docker, Terraform, Jenkins
  • Leveraging multiple services from AWS: EC2, ECS, S3, RDS, IAM, Route53, CloudWatch, Cloudfront, CodePipeline, Config, GuardDuty, CloudTrail, Security Hub
  • Load balancer configuration, optimization and maintenance
  • Firewalls for AWS (e.g. WAF) to prevent DDOS, SQL injection, and other attacks
  • Constant improvement of AWS Cloudfront to optimize security, performance, cache management
  • Container orchestration and management: ECS, EKS
  • Improving ECS performance, security and cost
  • Setup and management of monitoring tools Kibana, Cloudwatch
  • Setup and management of centralized logging, e.g. Elasticsearch, CloudTrail
  • Linux/ Unix Administration and scripting using shell scripts

• Experience and solid skills with the following strongly preferred
  • Infrastructure as code (e.g.Terraform and Cloudformation)
  • CI: Jenkins, CodeBuild, etc.
  • Automation test using Robot framework to support QA team
  • PostgreSQL and MySQL
  • Tuning Postgresql and scaling solutions for large traffic
  • Command-line tools and distributed version control systems such as GIT.
  • Familiarity with Industry Standard Security Benchmarks (CIS)
  • Reserved Instance approach and Compute savings plans for cost optimization

• Strong experience improving speed, efficiency, and scalability of all systems
• Must have excellent written and spoken English communication skills
• Must have a detailed understanding of best practices for IT operations in an always-up, always-available, customer-facing service
• Ability to learn quickly and rapidly pick-up new technology stacks essential