DevOps Engineer

Our partner is an international, PCI DSS certified payment service provider in Software as a Service (SaaS) mode. By relying on the latest payment technology stack, they release financial institutions from legacy systems and boost their time-to-market for innovative products and services. In Riga they have a core team for service provisioning to global customers. SaaS with multi-region cloud installations, clients in different geographies, 99.98% availability, and security defense-in-depth. Only a few organizations in Latvia have such an interesting IT environment. They have clients both in the production and implementation phases.

As DevOps engineer, you will specialize in their payment processing platform and its underlying platform technologies. Their team of DevOps engineers together with the Application support engineer and Security team are responsible for delivering a highly available, reliable, and secure SaaS service.

‍Their offer:‍

Ability to build your skills in a highly demanded industry with relevant technologies;
Getting to know payment cards, banking and payments industry processes;
A mix of remote and office work, at least 1x per week from their modern office at the Riga city center with a view of the Monument of Freedom;
Health insurance; paid opportunities to enhance your professional skills with courses and certification;‍‍
Salary from 3000 - 6000 EUR gross per month depending on your expertise, plus additionally an annual bonus.

‍‍What will you do:

Follow DevOps, SRE, and industry best practices to plan and organize daily tasks and achieve long-term goals;
Advance cloud-native architecture by testing, building, and enhancing a multi-cloud infrastructure and DevOps tools;
Automate and optimize platform operations, monitoring, and infrastructure for improved performance and resilience;
Collaborate with security teams to ensure system security, compliance, and maintenance;
Support application deployment by participating in release processes, patching, and debugging alongside support and development teams;
Onboard and manage client environments within the platform;
Handle service requests and incidents as part of the operations team, with participation in pre-scheduled on-call rotation (1-2x per month) for 24/7 platform support.

Ideally, you should have:

Analytical, inquisitive and growth-focused mindset. Focused on teamwork and solving problems;
Organized, detail-oriented, responsive, and able to prioritize tasks;
Good understanding of DevOps and SRE practices and philosophy;
Experience with any of the following cloud providers - AWS, Azure, or Oracle;
Understanding of IaC (Infrastructure as Code) and Configuration Management (CM);
Proficient in Ansible and Terraform or any other alternative platforms;
Experience with CI/CD tools and overall automation, testing, and monitoring. GitLab experience is preferred, but any other CI/CD tool is also acceptable;
Good understanding of networking concepts and how computer networks work;
Experience with Linux and/or Windows operating systems and scripting;
Proficiency in English.

If you do not have some knowledge and experience with the things mentioned (for example, Oracle Cloud), that’s completely fine. They have a supportive team and learning opportunities to bring you up to speed through learning and obtaining certifications.

Not mandatory to have, but any of the following is a bonus:

At least basic knowledge of SQL;
Experience in payment cards, banking, or payments industry;
Experience with any payment processing application package;
Knowledge of payment scheme specifications and processes;
Experience in an environment with a positive focus on security and compliance (e.g. PCI DSS, ISO 27001, Zero Trust Architecture).

Their tech stack (these are not requirements):