Senior Staff Devops Engineer

Ripple Ripple · Fintech · Chicago, IL +1 · Engineering

Senior Staff DevOps Engineer responsible for improving infrastructure and release pipelines, including developer infrastructure, production infrastructure, capacity and load testing, CI/CD, and release process automation. Pushes boundaries with new tools and technologies using a data-driven approach.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop, deploy, and maintain Ripple’s multi-region, multi-provider service platforms
  2. Supply build and development of tools for automation, monitoring, and instrumentation to reduce operational friction and increase engineering efficiency
  3. Lead discovery of next-generation solutions and work with wider engineering teams on implementation, adoption, and continuous improvements
  4. Build and automate new and existing platform and application lifecycle services, using data to converge on declared states with minimal human interaction
  5. Collaborate with product engineering to ensure code is production-ready

Skills

Required

  • Python
  • Go
  • Java
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • Docker
  • Terraform
  • CloudFormation
  • CI/CD tools

Nice to have

  • Rkt
  • OCI
  • Rancher
  • Mesos
  • Agile development

What the JD emphasized

  • 12+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps or related roles
  • Strong experience in either Python, Go, or Java
  • Experience managing extensive, multi-region service platforms
  • Proficiency in Kubernetes and background in managing cloud infrastructure, especially AWS
  • Experience with container schedulers and runtimes such as Docker, Rkt, or OCI running on Kubernetes, Rancher, or Mesos
  • Experience building deployment pipelines using common CI/CD tools
  • Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
  • Security awareness, with an emphasis on crafting for security standard methodologies
  • Experience with Agile development of distributed services, with a focus on robust software build, scalability, and security