About the opportunity
The DevOps Engineer provides technical leadership, change, consulting and subject matter expertise across multiple technologies and practices to meet customer requirements for rapid service delivery, reliability, and innovation. The role works collaboratively with key stakeholders, vendor representatives, and other IT teams/experts to deliver complex and innovative solutions in alignment with WEX strategy and architecture. The DevOps Engineer is responsible for architecting and maintaining cloud-native platforms, including AWS and our rapidly growing Kubernetes environment. The role provides a significant opportunity to research and incorporate new technologies and processes, emphasizing automation, platform evolution and enabling self-service for developers. The role includes working directly with a wide variety of development teams to onboard new projects, upskilling developers to use platform features such as CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, configuration management and application monitoring, empowering them to accelerate software delivery and adopt the principles of a DevOps culture.
You will be expected to
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Actively contribute to and guide innovation in DevOps practices and incorporate agile delivery approaches and technologies that assist with developing and delivering high-quality software.
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Develop and deliver efficient/repeatable infrastructure through the latest orchestration tools and Infrastructure as Code practices.
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Work with a variety of internal and external stakeholders to promote and support the adoption of technologies that will automate, optimize and modernize the delivery of platforms and services.
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Promote and advocate changes to software engineering and operations with the adoption of new technologies that benefit the delivery of automated, highly scalable systems.
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Deliver technical consulting and subject matter expertise to technological solution projects, including pre-project, to ensure risks, interdependencies and exceptions are identified, mitigated or escalated, and solutions are formulated in alignment with Wex strategy and architecture.
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Develop high level options, conceptual approaches, technical recommendations and estimates to support the transition of system designs into operation.
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Improve services level by implementing performance management strategies, robust configuration management practices and automated processes.
Experience you'll bring
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Strong experience working in complex Cloud Native environments AWS and Azure.
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Strong understanding of software technologies and software patterns.
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Good leadership skills and ability to engage and collaborate well with identified stakeholders.
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Strong experience working with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform and Ansible.
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Good understanding of IP Networking concepts.
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Experience working in a PCI Compliant environment or an environment that adheres to a compliance framework.
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Experience in AWS services EKS, RDS, EC2, IAM, Lambda, VPC.
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Knowledge of containerization/orchestration tools Docker/ ECS/K8s, GitOps.
Top Skills
What We Do
We simplify complex payment systems for fleets, corporate payments, and healthcare—unlocking insights, opportunities, and efficiencies to give you greater control of your business.
Powered by the belief that complex payment systems can be made simple, WEX (NYSE: WEX) is a leading financial technology service provider across a wide spectrum of sectors, including fleet, travel and healthcare. WEX operates in more than 10 countries and in more than 20 currencies through approximately 4,900 associates around the world. WEX fleet cards offer approximately 14 million vehicles exceptional payment security and control; our travel and corporate solutions business processes over $35 billion of purchase volume annually; and the WEX Health financial technology platform helps 343,000 employers and more than 28 million consumers better manage healthcare expenses.
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