Devops Engineer, Aws, Remote

Who we are

Financeit is a point-of-sale financing provider serving some of the largest home improvement and retail organizations in Canada.

Our platform helps businesses close more sales by offering customers affordable monthly payment options for their next big home improvement, vehicle or retail purchase.

We are small enough that you can make an impact within the company and large enough to make an impact in the market.

Financeit is a company where collaboration, inclusivity, fairness, and respect aren't just ideas that get talked about, but are part of who we are. If such a workplace intrigues you, we hope you'll join us.

About the role

As a Devops Engineer, you have deep technical knowledge, with at least 5 years of experience in DevOps work in AWS, Containerized Workloads, GitOps, and Linux Systems administration. You are a developer first, systems administrator second.

At Financeit you will be working on the DevOps team to help support the uptime SLAs of our cloud infrastructures, support the DevOps automation goals and roadmaps, and other activities as described below. You will be joining a high flying team seeing enormous success in the market!

Core Responsibilities

• Systems Security Audit and Systems Capacity Planning
• Manage and optimize CI/CD pipelines to reduce build time
• Manage and administer EKS cluster and related QA infrastructure
• Participate in Cybersecurity training and become a champion to support Financeit's Security and Availability initiatives
• Creating internal tools and processes that will increase developer and QA productivity
• Respond to alerts or tickets concerning servers
• Perform System Patches and Upgrades
• MySQL and Postgresql Setup and Administration
• Server Setup Configuration and Administration using AWS Cloudformation, Ansible, Terraform, Chef
• Infrastructure Monitoring - responding to system alerts and resolving them
• Implement change requests during on or off work hours

• Proficiency with Terraform, AWS Cloudformation and Ansible (Chef or Puppet proficiency also a plus)
• Experience managing modern firewalls like AWS Security Groups, WAF, Intrusion Detection
• 3+ years of experience with Systems Linux Administration
• Deep knowledge in AWS services such as EC2, RDS, Elasticache, VPC, IAM, Opensearch
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in IT related roles such as Tech Support, Systems Engineer, Software Development etc
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps or SRE
• Proficiency in containerization and running/managing containerized workloads on Kubernetes (EKS)
• Bonus points if you have a deep knowledge and interest on the Star Wars and MCU Universes!
• Proficiency with Amazon Code Deploy, Gitlab, Jenkins, Github Actions, and various CI/CD platforms

Winner of Canada's Most Admired Corporate Culture in 2018 and 2021, we offer more than just the basics. Take advantage of:

• RRSP Matching and Parental Leave Top Up Program
• Virtual events such as Lunch & Learns, company parties, fun team activities and charity initiatives
• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage + Lifestyle Account
• Career learning and development programs
• Committed to flexible work arrangements, offering fully remote and hybrid workplace options, as well as a hybrid working allowance
• Competitive pay and performance based bonus
• An award-winning culture with a collaborative & inclusive team
• Weekly virtual yoga classes, meditation & workout sessions

Next Steps:

If what you just read excites you, we'd like to hear from you! Please submit your application and we'll contact you if you become selected for a phone interview.

Financeit is an equal opportunity employer. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.