Sr. DevOps Engineer

Nium, the Leader in Real-Time Global Payments

At Nium, we operate at the intersection of an increasingly interconnected world, where the traditional finance industry has been disrupted, and on-demand is in demand. Our payments infrastructure is leading a transformation in payments, enabling anyone, anywhere to make and receive payments instantly, regardless of the location or currency. We currently support:

-Regulatory Licenses and Authorizations in 40+ Countries, enabling seamless onboarding, rapid integration, and compliance

-190+ Pay Out Markets – 100+ in real time

-35+ Pay In Markets

-30+ Card Issuance Markets

-100+ Supported Currencies

Today, Nium is the leader in real-time global payments and the fastest way to send money across borders. We are co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with regional offices in Australia, Brazil, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Lithuania, London, Malaysia, Malta, Netherlands, and UAE.

The Team You Will Join

The DevOps Engineer in the Technical Operations department is responsible to maintain, support and improve the infrastructure required for a DevOps culture, providing right tools and processes needed to seamlessly and efficiently ship code every day with an acceptable level of quality. The engineer will be part of the team driving the DevOps processes and collaboration between product management, software engineering, and operations.

The role falls under the Technical Operations department, which is responsible for the provisioning, configuration, operation and maintenance of Nium infrastructure. These systems include highly available and scalable production Java based web applications, as well as Pre-Prod, QA and development environments and tools. Apart from the existing proprietary and ancillary systems, Nium is building the next-generation microservice platform, with fully automated release and deployment cycles, making use of hybrid-cloud infrastructure. The DevOps engineer will be part of the team managing all systems and migrating services to new infrastructure whilst abiding with SLAs.

What would a day @Nium look like?

• Be an active DevOps advocate
• Establish and employ Continuous Integration practices with tools such as Jenkins or other CI Tools
• Create and manage kubernetes clusters or Cloud-managed container orchestartors like EKS
• Deploy applications on Kubernetes with tools like Helm Charts
• Deploy infrastructure as Code using tools like Terraform
• Automate processes of all systems, using tools like Rundeck, Ansible and Puppet
• Maintain the automated monitoring at all levels: Hardware, Networking, Virtualisation, Operating Systems, Databases, and all Applications, on dedicated hardware or cloud, using tools such as Zabbix, Prometheus and Grafana
• Create and maintain technical documentation
• Holistically improve all aspects of our infrastructure, including reducing costs, improving build and deployment times, streamlining environment provisioning, lowering load times, incorporating the latest techniques and technologies, and more
• Monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure issues and provide timely support to customers and internal departments
• Be part of the on-call technical support team
• Interact with third-party suppliers and other departments as required
• Managing change to production systems.

Which Skills & Experiences will make you successful?

• Hands on experience with cloud solutions ideally AWS
• Kubernetes, Docker, Helm and Terraform is a must
• Strong working knowledge of Linux operating systems and scripting languages such as Bash, Groovy and Python
• Experience in building CI/CD processes
• Experience with Jenkins, SonarQube, Gitlab and Bitbucket
• Experience in monitoring solutions like Zabbix, Prometheus and Grafana
• Experience with DB administration is a plus (Mysql, MSSQL, NoSql MongoDB).

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What we offer at Nium

We Value Performance: Through competitive salaries, performance bonuses, uncapped sales commissions and robust performance reviews, we ensure that all employees are rewarded and incentivized for their hard work.

We Care for Our Employees: The wellness of Nium’ers is our #1 priority. In addition to many other benefits, we offer medical coverage, 24/7 employee assistance program, generous time off policies, and a year-end shut down. We also provide a hybrid working environment (3 days per week in the office).

We Upskill Ourselves: We are curious, always want to learn more and upskill ourselves. As well as role-specific training, we also offer a global learning stipend.

We Constantly Innovate: Nium continues to be globally recognized for its constant innovations, growth, and employee-centric mindset since our inception:

-2022 Great Place To Work Certification

-2023 CB Insights Fintech 100 List of Most Promising Fintech Companies.

We Celebrate Together: Work is also about having fun with your colleagues and forging deep relationships. We host company-wide social events onsite and virtually, provide team morale budget and bonding activities, happy hours, team offsites, and much more!

We Thrive with Diversity: Across 33 nationalities and 18+ countries, our diverse and multicultural team embodies our commitment to a safe and welcoming environment for everyone.

What it’s like to be a Nium'er

At Nium we center our way of work around 3 core values globally:

#KeepItSimple: We cut through complexity, simplify at speed and operate with scale in mind.

#MakeItBetter: We build innovative solutions that make our customers' lives better.

#WinItTogether: We win in this competitive market by collaborating as one team.

For more information, visit www.nium.com.