Lead DevOps Engineer

***This role is fully remote within the U.S. (occasional travel to meet teams or partners) with a slight preference for Pacific and Mountain time zones. In an attempt to reduce the inevitable influx of fraudulent candidates, we're not posting it as remote.***

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About Us:

We are a forward-thinking mortgage technology company dedicated to evolving the mortgage industry. Our mission is to make homeownership more affordable. We accomplish our goals by focusing on outcomes, working with existing industry participants, and leveraging emerging technologies. Novaprime is backed by industry-leading institutions and investors and is partnered with some of the largest institutions in the mortgage industry.

Job Description:

We seek an exceptional and skilled Lead DevOps Engineer to join Novaprime's Infrastructure team. To succeed, you must enjoy thinking in systems and always learning. You will play a pivotal role in designing cloud native platforms (AWS, Kubernetes, Azure), architecting and developing the core infrastructure that powers Novaprime products. You will focus on enabling self-service capabilities for application layer teams to interact with infrastructure (via infrastructure-as-code (IaC) technologies like Terraform, Helm, Flux CD), running production workloads, ensuring the security of cloud infrastructure, and managing cloud costs.

You will design and develop scalable, efficient, and robust infrastructure by closely collaborating with application layer teams, define observability and on-call strategies (OpenTelemetry, NewRelic, PagerDuty), and work with corporate IT to set up proper access controls. This infrastructure must handle multi-tenant self-service capabilities. As a member of our technical staff, you must constantly challenge yourself on which software paradigms are evolving with advances in AI and how you can best leverage AI tools to improve your own practices and the team’s productivity.

Responsibilities:

• Implement new technologies that yield competitive advantages and are aligned with our business goals.

• Drive development from concept to market by combining various technologies and collaborating with a cross-functional team.

• Support the company's infrastructure to ensure optimal performance.

• Be on-call to ensure operational stability of the systems.

• Monitor system infrastructure to ensure functionality and efficiency.

• Build quality assurance and data protection processes.

• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to develop strategies and implement new products and features.

• Stay current with the latest technologies to maintain competitiveness and technological leadership in the market.

• Various engineering-related tasks which continue to progress the organization’s mission.

Requirements:

• B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

• 7+ years of industry experience

• 2+ years at an earlier stage startup (seed, Series A/B)

• Strong background in k8s, cloud providers, IaC, observability

• Strong background in CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, etc

• Track record with product managers and engineers to deliver products and features to customers

• Great written and verbal communication skills, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment

• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.

• Positive and solution-oriented mindset

• Exceptional working in a team environment as well as independently

• Various tasks and responsibilities to further the organization’s success

Desired Experience:

• 5+ years of experience with running production workloads at scale

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator

• Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist

• AWS Certified - Advanced Networking

• AWS Certified - Security

• Strong background in Azure

• Strong background in PostgreSQL administration

• Experience with cloud costs forecasting and optimization

• Successfully passed SOC2 and ISO27001 certifications

Benefits:

• Competitive salary, equity, and benefits.

• Mostly remote work.

• Opportunity to make a difference for millions and their ability to be homeowners.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.