Sr DevOps Engineer

About Us:

Propel (TSX: PRL) is the fintech company building a new world of financial opportunity by facilitating access to credit for consumers underserved by traditional financial institutions. Through its AI-driven platform, Propel evaluates customers in a more comprehensive way than traditional credit scores can. Our revolutionary fintech platform has already helped consumers access over one million loans and lines of credit and over one billion dollars in credit.

To build a new world of opportunity we bring together the brightest talent to help us build opportunities. We are entrepreneurs and believe in measuring success through results and growing within; talent and hard work never goes unnoticed. At Propel, we are here to change the way employees, customers and shareholders succeed together.

We are a team of passionate entrepreneurs, who foster curiosity and growth in our employees. Our culture is why we’ve been so successful and why our employees choose Propel to build their careers. Its also why we’re one of North America’s fastest growing companies and a Best Place to Work.

Join us as we change the way employees, customers and shareholders succeed together.

About You:

As a fast-growing fintech, we stay true to our startup roots.  You picture yourself within a vibrant and entrepreneurial organization where your ideas will be heard, and you have an opportunity to showcase your talent. You are motivated by goals, a self-starter and like to wear multiple hats.

Responsibilities

AWS Expertise

• Proficient in managing AWS services such as EC2, S3, VPC, ELB, RDS, Systems Manager, and backup solutions
• Hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure provisioning, deployment, and automation using Terraform/Ansible

Cloud Orchestration

• Expertise in Kubernetes cluster management preferably Amazon EKS
• Design, deploy, and manage scalable, highly available, and secure Kubernetes-based infrastructure

Internal Development Platform

• Automate processes to support Dev/QA teams through an Internal Development Platform using Terraform, Python etc.

Continuous Integration and Deployment

• Implement and manage continuous deployment solutions like ArgoCD and Jenkins for containerized applications.
• Strong proficiency in Jenkins for building, testing, and deploying applications
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the software delivery process

Web Servers and Application Servers

• Proficient in configuring and managing Apache HTTP Server
• Experience with installation, configuration, and optimization of Tomcat Application Server

Infrastructure as Code

• Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation to manage and provision infrastructure

Monitoring and Logging

• Experience with monitoring systems like DataDog or equivalent
• Implement robust monitoring and logging solutions to ensure system health and performance

Linux Administration

• Proficient in Linux system administration, troubleshooting, and optimization

Security

• Implement and advocate for DevSecOps best practices
• Ensure security compliance and help perform regular security audits

Requirements

• University Degree/College Diploma in a business, mathematics, computer science or technology related field preferred
• 5+ years of hands-on in DevOps domain
• Experience in cloud environments and deployment, preferably AWS
• Hands-on experience with Linux, Apache, Tomcat
• Experience with automation processes and tools such as Jenkins, Ansible and Bash
• Load balancers, firewalls
• Monitoring systems using DataDog, CloudWatch etc.
• Understanding of current web and internet technologies like CDN, DNS
• Knowledge of Vagrant, Docker and Kubernetes will be helpful
• Bonus points AWS and Kubernetes certifications.

Benefits to Joining Propel

• Growth and opportunity – we pride ourselves on promoting from within
• Incredible company culture
• Competitive salary and health benefits
• Comprehensive vacation package
• Group health and dental benefits
• Group RRSP program
• Support for new parents
• Diverse and inclusive workplace

Should you require accommodation throughout any stage of the recruitment and selection process, please specify your requirements when submitting your application and we will work with you to accommodate your needs.

We welcome and encourage applications from individuals from all groups, including aboriginal, women, visible minorities, and persons with disabilities, regardless of race, ethnicity, family status, national origin, age, people from gender and sexually diverse communities, and/or people with intersectional identities.

We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted. No agencies or phone calls.