About Tala

Tala is a global technology company building the world’s most accessible financial services. With more than $350 million raised from visionary investors, we are serving millions of customers around the world who have been overlooked by traditional financial institutions – and our plan is to serve millions more, and have been named by the Fortune Impact 20 list, CNBC’s Disruptor 50, and Forbes’ Fintech 50 list for four years running. We are expanding across product offerings, countries and crypto and are looking for people who have an entrepreneurial spirit and are passionate about the mission.

By creating a unique platform that enables lending and other financial services around the globe, people in emerging markets are able to start and expand small businesses, manage day-to-day needs, and pursue their financial goals with confidence. Currently, more than 6 million people across Kenya, the Philippines, Mexico, and India have used Tala products. Due to our global team, we have a remote-first approach, and also have offices in Santa Monica, CA (HQ); Nairobi, Kenya; Mexico City, Mexico; Manila, the Philippines; and Bangalore, India. 

Most Talazens join us because they connect with our mission of enabling financial agency for underbanked people around the world. If you are energized by the impact you can make at Tala, we’d love to hear from you!

We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to support and maintain the core components of our financial platform and scale it to serve millions of users across the world. The project's technical scope is broad and leverages a variety of cutting-edge commercial and open source tools to get the job done.

What you'll do

• Build, maintain and deploy the application in a multi-cloud environment with cost and security as the main focus
• Build and deploy monitoring and alerting systems across our entire infrastructure
• Complete migration and design of CI/CD deployment model utilizing gitops
• Support integration projects with 3rd party services (Payment Rails, SMS/Email, KYC, Analytics, etc.)
• Build, maintain, and own InfoSec compliance efforts by implementing and enforcing appropriate processes and standards across the organization
• Maintain, review, propose and implement improvements to existing infrastructure, tools, and processes
• Familiarity with Cloud Cost Management practices and reporting

Qualifications

• Tinkerer- you love to try out new tools and technologies to further improve the platform.
• Technology Toolbox- you have all of the tools for development plus a few extras.
• Leader- you have the ability to keep pace with, and set the pace for, your teammates. Able to learn and teach new technologies and solutions.
• Solutions Driven- experience thinking out loud to create the best solutions to complex, tricky problems, using the latest technical methodologies/processes.
• GlobalThinker - you have the passion to deploy a service that is truly global and loves the chance to solve complex problems that arise from this.

Requirements

• 4+ years experience in DevOps processes and tools (Ansible, Docker, Vagrant, Puppet, PagerDuty, APM, Sumologic, etc.)
• Expert knowledge in AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, ELB, ElasticCache, VPC, VPN, EMR, CloudDeploy, Kinesis, Redshift)
• Proficiency in Cloud and Application Security and Certification (ISO-27001, SOC 1, SOC 2)
• Degree in Computer Science and Math
• Proficiency in Agile development process 
• Excellent ability to communicate and collaborate with a globally distributed team
• Bonus: Certifications in Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP), experience with Service Mesh

Our vision is to build a new financial ecosystem where everyone can participate on equal footing and access the tools they need to be financially healthy. We strongly believe that inclusion fosters innovation and we’re proud to have a diverse global team that represents a multitude of backgrounds, cultures, and experience. We hire talented people regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.