Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Octane is a Fintech company whose mission is to connect people with their passions. The transaction process for large purchases such as powersports, RVs, boats, and home improvements is slow and frustrating, but Octane is changing that through automated underwriting, innovative credit products, and financing through our in-house lender Roadrunner Financial. Octane reaches millions of enthusiasts through editorial brands like Cycle World and Cycle Volta and helps consumers buy their favorite products with instant, frictionless financing on Octane.co. Octane is revolutionizing lending in under-served verticals that account for tens of billions of dollars in annual transactions.
Octane is gaining traction quickly with customers, as evidenced by growth in originations through our platform of more than 2X year-over-year. Octane works with more than 3,500 merchants in the USA and offers promotional financing with low rates for 40 OEM brands. Because we’re the platform and the lender, we have both high growth and positive unit economics - rare for a fintech. We have raised more than $139M in venture capital from leading investors such as IA Ventures, Valar Ventures, and Contour Venture Partners, and our lending securities are rated AA by S&P.
What We Need:
We are looking for a motivated cloud infrastructure engineer with a passion for building and running large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems to drive engineering innovation. Embedded in an Agile environment, you will work cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and engineers company-wide to ensure that Octane’s services, both internally critical and externally visible, have reliability, appropriate uptime, and a fast pace of improvement. You will have the opportunity to use your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis, and large-scale system design to solve the challenges of scaling systems, building infrastructure, and eliminating work through automation.
What You’ll Do:
- Architect and build AWS resources self service delivery framework for Engineering team; including deployment scripts, terrafor, ansible and github integration and automation.
- Be a key contributor to the design and implementation of top level AWS security architecture strategy.
- Automate and maintain enterprise application servers including Tableau and WP Engine.
- Plan, design, develop, and support innovations that improve infrastructure performance, resiliency, availability, scalability, and security.
- Provide direction on the design of cloud infrastructure related initiatives.
- Partner with Software Development, Security, and IT in facilitating deployment tools, clear self service documentation, and empowerment to deploy resources.
- Redesign the automation of Engineering self service deployment, management, and operations of our AWS cloud hosted systems
- Enhance system, network, and application observability and telemetry.
- Assist in the identification of KPIs to meet SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs.
- Establish key operational policies in areas such as emergency response (e.g. runbook), monitoring and metrics of infrastructure elements, and infrastructure as code.
- Respond to outages with a timely and efficient resolution in support of a production cloud infrastructure and applications.
- Create and deliver best practices recommendations, tutorials, blog articles, sample code, and technical presentations adapting to different levels of key business and technical stakeholders.
- Teach and mentor junior engineers.
Who You Are:
- 5+ years of experience leading multiple projects designing, building, and/or running production systems in cloud or virtualized environments.
- 3+ years of experience designing, implementing, and maintaining highly available, fault-tolerant solutions.
- Advanced knowledge of AWS Cloud Architecture and Security; and services and provisioning of VPC/IAM/S3/EC2/ECR/Cloudfront/Route53.
- Strong Github, Ansible, and Terraform experience.
- Advanced knowledge of Python and Linux and shell/bash scripting.
- Strong scripting and coding skills in Python, Ruby, or other languages commonly used within DevOps workflows.
- Deep understanding of build and release automation and dependency management.
- Significant experience with orchestration and automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or Chef.
- Experience with logging, monitoring, alerting, and observability tools (e.g. Datadog, Sumo, Sentry).
- Experience with network and application protocols (e.g. TCP, HTTP).
- Experience configuring and maintaining databases (RDBMS & NoSQL).
- Experience managing distributed systems which can handle data at scale.
- Experience with DevOps practices including infrastructure as code, continuous integration, automated deployment, automated testing, autoscaling, and self-healing.
- Proficient with APIs and integrating independent SaaS solutions together via API.
- Good understanding of security best practices, server/network hardening, and risk mitigation.
Benefits:
- Robust Health Care Plans (Medical, Dental & Vision)
- Up to 5 weeks PTO (self-managed)
- Generous Parental Leave
- Retirement Plan (401k) with Company contribution
- Educational Assistance/Tuition Reimbursement up to $3K/year
- Powersports Safety Benefit: reimbursement of up to $500/year for the purchase of any powersports safety equipment
- Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
- Short Term / Long Term Disability & Life insurance
- Team Activities (remotely)
- Monthly company gift
Octane Lending is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected status with respect to recruitment, hiring, promotion and other terms and conditions of employment.
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