Infrastructure Engineer (DevOps)

Summary

Wysh is an insurance company redefining financial protection for the modern world. The Infrastructure Engineer (DevOps) will own build, deployment, and production infrastructure while collaborating with engineers to maintain reliable cloud platforms, troubleshoot incidents, and automate improvements.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain systems to develop, build, test, and deploy in-house applications and vendor solutions on cloud infrastructure
• Build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications using tools like Terraform, Kubernetes, Vault, and AWS
• Collaborate with engineers to provide a robust “you build it, you run it” platform supported by the infrastructure team
• Troubleshoot priority incidents, facilitate postmortems & ensure permanent closure of incidents by treating root causes
• Constantly re-evaluate our product to improve architecture, knowledge models, user experience, performance, and stability - automating improvements and minimizing manual upkeep along the way

Skills

• 3+ years of experience in fintech, SaaS, or similar environments, with a track record of taking end-to-end ownership of build/deployment infrastructure as part of a small, collaborative engineering team
• Strong understanding of a YAML-based CI tool like CircleCI
• Real-world experience with build and deployment of Docker/OCI container images into Kubernetes
• Ability to program in a programming/scripting language, such as Ruby, Go, or Elixir
• Understand modern team software development and testing tools and practices, including CI/CD and “gitops” approaches
• Knowledgeable of engineering best practices from appropriate testing paradigms to effective peer code reviews and resilient architecture
• Elixir is a bonus as we use it for other internal software

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 3+ years of experience in fintech, SaaS, or similar environments, with a track record of taking end-to-end ownership of build/deployment infrastructure as part of a small, collaborative engineering team
• Strong understanding of a YAML-based CI tool like CircleCI
• Real-world experience with build and deployment of Docker/OCI container images into Kubernetes
• Ability to program in a programming/scripting language, such as Ruby, Go, or Elixir
• Understand modern team software development and testing tools and practices, including CI/CD and “gitops” approaches
• Knowledgeable of engineering best practices from appropriate testing paradigms to effective peer code reviews and resilient architecture

Nice to Haves

• Elixir is a bonus as we use it for other internal software

Benefits

• A dynamic, diverse, and collaborative team environment
• Remote work schedule with flexible working hours
• Unlimited PTO
• Paid holidays
• Paid Summer Fridays
• Paid parental leave
• 100% medical care coverage for the employee
• Generous medical coverage contributions for family
• Dental and vision coverage
• Commuter and parking reimbursement
• 401k with a 4% match
• Health and wellness reimbursement
• Free Talkspace membership
• Voluntary long-term and short-term disability coverage
• Life insurance
• FSA/HSA
• A $1,000 annual training allowance for each employee
• Two modern offices in Dumbo, Brooklyn and Durham, NC, offering a variety of working spaces for individual or team collaboration
• Free meals and snacks
• Monthly culture events, celebrations, team outings, and social hours