Senior DevOps Engineer
Airwallex
Software Engineering
Melbourne VIC, Australia
Posted on Wednesday, June 28, 2023
Airwallex is the leading financial technology platform for modern businesses growing beyond borders. With one of the world’s most powerful payments and banking infrastructure, our technology empowers businesses of all sizes to accept payments, move money globally, and simplify their financial operations, all in one single platform.
Established in 2015 in Melbourne, our purpose is to connect entrepreneurs, business builders, makers and creators with opportunities in every corner of the world. Today, Airwallex has a global footprint across Asia-Pacific, Europe, and North America.
About The Role:
As a cloud-native DevOps, you will work within a feature team to deliver business outcomes.
Your focus will be around building a globally distributed, PCI DSS compliant platform using GCP and Aliyun, whilst guiding and upskilling internal teams using best practices for building, deployment and scaling applications in the cloud. As we are a Financial Service company, security is at the core of our practices and automation.
You will bring to the team a level of expertise in operational platform management, developing observability and detection capabilities that will decrease time to discover problems and allow our teams to increase stability and not sacrifice agility or security.
A key aspect of this position will be building consensus amongst DevOps Engineers across geographies in different feature teams about the tools and practices we use, and evolving that consensus into agreed standards.
About You:
- You are committed – You strive to produce, exceptional, risk free, fully tested solutions in all the platforms you build.
- You can think on your feet - with experience building platforms which resolve fast paced, ever changing success measures.
- You are team player – you enjoy working in a collaborative, innovative and customer first driven environment.
- You are naturally curious– always asking why to better understand our customer needs.
- You are a passionate problem solver – You love digging deep and brainstorming with colleagues in order to come up with the best solution for a problem
What You'll Bring:
- A strong passion for automation and repeatable processes
- Hands-on experience leveraging containerization including Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes (GKE)
- Deep exposure to at least one of the following cloud providers: AWS, GCP, Azure or Aliyun cloud
- Experience working with a mainstream programming language such as Java, go, Python or Rust.
- Broad experience with modern CI/CD pipelines ( Gitlab, Jenkins etc)
- A fervent enthusiasm for infrastructure-as-code ( we love Terraform)
- A love for operational metrics including MTTD & MTTR and the capabilities and practices that allow these to be continually improved upon
- Excellent understanding of OS, platform and network security practices, patterns and frameworksNetwork topology and infrastructure architectures on Linux based platforms.
- Observability tooling such as Splunk, NewRelic, Prometheus, Grafana
- You're about building software to help operations and support teams
- Experience optimizing on-call rotations and processes.
- The expertise to design, analyze and troubleshoot large-scale distributed systems.
- A love for debugging, optimizing code, and automating routine tasks.
If this sounds like something you would be keen to hear more about, hit apply.
At Airwallex you’ll have the ability to make an impact in a rapidly growing, global fintech. We want you to share in our success, which is why you’ll be offered a Competitive Salary plus a Bonus, and plus valuable Equity (in the form of RSUs).
We also like to ensure we create the best environment for our people by providing a collaborative, open office space, fully stocked kitchen and catered lunches. We organise regular team building events, encourage flexible/hybrid working and we give our people the freedom to be creative.
Life at Airwallex:
💸We commit to industry-leading salaries and rewards
💲We share our business success through every employee receiving equity
💻 Two epic working spaces in the heart of Melbourne and Sydney
💳 Your own Airwallex Virtual Card, with $1000 per year to spend on physical, lifestyle, health, or charitable donations
🥗On-site snacks, think fully stocked fridges, beers, ice-creams
🧘Access to our mental wellness platform to provide personalised, private support, including coaching and EAP sessions
🎂 Enjoy a paid day off on your birthday to celebrate YOU
👪Generous parental leave, baby bonding leave, and pregnancy loss leaves
💵Paid community and volunteer leave
💸Generous Employee Referral Program rewards for referring top talent
Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard colour, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.