DevOps Engineer

Join Aperia Solutions, a leader in SaaS solutions for the Payments and Compliance industries. Aperia is a Texas-based fintech and managed consultancy firm that creates custom SaaS applications and other software-based solutions for the payments, banking, and processing industry. Founded in 1999, Aperia offers business intelligence, risk management, compliance, and customer intelligence platforms. With offices in Dallas, Washington DC, and Vietnam, Aperia is a fast-paced, global organization that strives to improve efficiency in compliance, risk, and customer service operations. Aperia’s clients include banks, processors, payment facilitators, merchant service providers, independent sales organizations, and government entities. A career at Aperia promises a great challenge, culture, and opportunities to forge your own path.

At Aperia, we rely on a dynamic team of developers. We’re seeking a DevOps Engineer who is ready to work with new technologies and architectures in a forward-thinking organization that’s always pushing boundaries. This person will have Azure Cloud Platform skills. 

• →Analyze current tech stack and conduct process reengineering to improve/expand our capabilities.
• →Support, update, and validate all Kubernetes clusters are performing at optimal levels.
• →Manage various microservices platforms and ensure hw/sw platforms are in place to deliver results.
• →Automate and maintain software delivery workflows using CI/CD pipelines.
• →Design and implement scalable, distributed, fault tolerant systems that satisfy complex requirements.
• →Designing and implementing best practices for software development which include security and monitoring.
• →Application administration across multiple operating systems, hardware types, and application servers.  Install, implement, maintain and support Windows and Linux server products.
• →Install, update, tune, and diagnose both internal and third-party applications.
• →Support and troubleshoot the usage of multiple Relational Database systems and various storage technologies and network interfaces.
• →Diagnose and mitigate performance and reliability issues across the application stack. 
• →Create and maintain fields, reports, dashboards, custom objects, workflows, functions and configurations.
• →Facilitate IT Service Management processes of Incident, Problem, Change, Release, Asset, Configuration and Continuous Improvements including the creation and management of changes in compliance with the change management policy. 
• →Utilize the DevOps and CI/CD processes for automated versioning and deployments of code.
• →Technical application support across multiple platforms utilizing VXML data processing.
• →Working with multiple automation tools/languages: Python, PowerShell.
• →Involved in daily operations via monitoring solutions: Dynatrace/Splunk.
• →Involved in application security scans (SAST/DAST), related mitigations and systems hardening.
• →Daily utilization of Change management and Project management tools; JIRA/Confluence/ServiceNow.

• →2+ years of application and operations experience throughout a full application stack
• →Cloud Platform (GCP, AWS or Azure)
• →Container tech such as Docker/Openshift or Kubernetes/GKE/EKS/AKS
• →Python, or shell (bash) scripting
• → Deep understanding of Linux.  Knowledge of infrastructure and security.
• →CI/CD: Jenkins, GitLab, Harness, Nexus and technologies such as Terraform.
• →Release management, Asset Configuration and Continuous Improvements; Analyzing and troubleshooting the authentication and handshake between servers, Load Balancers, TLS, certificates, and ciphers.
• →Analyzing and troubleshooting data encoding, compression, and encryption/decryption implementations.
• →Firewall management
• →Artificial Intelligence (AI) related applications and products (Watson).
• →Bachelor's degree or equivalent in IT, Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
• →Windows, Linux Admin (CentOS), Python, Puppet (or Chef)
• →Terraform, Encryption/certs/security

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field.

• Must be willing to submit to a background investigation and drug test as part of the selection process.
• This position is not eligible for sponsorship.

• Full time

• Monday to Friday

• Omaha, NE