AWS DevOps Engineer

Ninth Wave

AWS DevOps Engineer

Location: New York City

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced dedicated and hands-on AWS DevOps Engineer to join our growing Fintech software company. The successful candidate will possess strong technical and ethical qualities ensuring the utmost reliability and security of our software solutions. Reporting directly to theHead of Infrastructure the AWS DevOps Engineer will be responsible for developing maintaining and enhancing our infrastructure automating processes and working collaboratively with cross-functional teams. Excellent communication skills and a customer-focused mindset are essential for this role as the AWS DevOps Engineer will work closely with both internal and external stakeholders.

This role is based in our New York City office and follows the Companys current hybrid work policy.

Responsibilities:

Cloud Infrastructure & Automation

- Design implement and maintain secure scalable and cost-effective AWS infrastructure.
- Automate deployment monitoring and management processes to minimize manual interventions.
- Develop and manage Infrastructure-as-Code using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.

CI/CD & Collaboration

- Work closely with software engineering teams to streamline CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins GitHub Actions etc.).
- Ensure seamless integration of infrastructure and application code through DevOps best practices.
- Support build and deployment automation for Java-based microservices
- Develop and maintain documentation for architecture processes and runbooks

Networking & Certificate Management

- Spin up and manage VPCs subnets route tables NAT gateways and security groups.
- Configure and manage ALBs/NLBs Route 53 and DNS routing.
- Automate provisioning and renewal of TLS/SSL certificates (ACM Lets Encrypt certbot)
- Maintain firewall rules bastion hosts and VPN/Direct Connect configurations.
- Monitor and troubleshoot network latency and bottlenecks using CloudWatch VPC Flow Logs etc.

Security Identity & Secrets Management

- Implement secure handling of secrets keys and certificates using AWS Secrets Manager SSM or Vault.

- Configure mutual TLS (mTLS) and secure service communication.
- Support integration with identity management platforms such as AWS Cognito Keycloak Okta or Auth0
-Ensure cloud infrastructure complies with security standards (SOC2 PCI).

Qualifications:

- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related technical field.
- 3 years of experience in DevOps CloudOps or Site Reliability roles with a focus on AWS.

- Experience supporting and optimizing Java-based application workloads in cloud environments
- Deep expertise in AWS services: EC2 S3 RDS Lambda IAM VPC CloudFormation.
- Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python Bash or Shell
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines version control (Git) and containers (Docker)
- Solid foundation in networking and Linux system administration.

- Complies with Companys in-office policy

-Collaborate in-person with teams at our New York City office to drive initiatives

Preferred Qualifications:

- AWS certifications (e.g. AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional Solutions Architect Associate)
- Experience with container orchestration tools (e.g. ECS EKS Kubernetes)
- Hands-on experience with identity and access management solutions like Cognito Keycloak Okta or Auth0
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies and a collaborative approach to problem-solving
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with an ability to identify and implement creative solutions
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a demonstrated ability to communicate complex
technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Strong teamwork and collaboration skills including experience working with cross-functional teams and remote colleagues

Company Overview

Ninth Wave is a permission-based SaaS platform that delivers secure data connectivity to financial institutions offering configurable controls visibility and insights into all connections between aggregators third-party apps and internal applications. Ninth Wave empowers financial institutions enabling secure data exchange in a holistic and scalable open finance ecosystem.

Required Experience:

Senior IC