Senior Devops Engineer

As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will:
 

• Keeping the Lights On:
  -Implement and maintain monitoring and observability solutions to proactively identify and address issues.
  -Respond to incidents and troubleshoot production issues promptly.

• Infrastructure Management:
  -Manage cloud infrastructure using tools like Terraform Packer.
  -Design build and maintain scalable and resilient infrastructure.

• Coaching and Mentoring:
  -Mentor junior team members and other developers on DevOps best practices.
  -Share knowledge and promote a culture of continuous learning.

• Security:
  -Implement security best practices across the entire stack.
  -Collaborate with security team to address security concerns.

• Developer Experience:
  -Enhance CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.
  -Provide tools and documentation to streamline development and deployment

Our Technical Environment:

Our next generation payments platform has been developed using Java specifically leveraging the Spring Boot framework

Our infrastructure is hosted on AWS; using a mixture of containerization (Fargate) and vanilla EC2

Our systems are secure and highly available we have implemented passive and active monitoring and incident escalation using a combination of Datadog CloudWatch Logs and Metrics Postman and Pagerduty

We utilise GraphQL (leveraging Apollo and Hasura) to open up our rich data model to internal and external stakeholders

We develop frontend systems using the Vue Angular and Ionic frameworks

We aggregate and analyze logs from all of our systems via the ELK stack

Our operating system of choice is CentOS and our DevSecOps team is fanatical about security monitoring and patch management

Our infrastructure is immutable and managed using IaC principles via Terraform

We leverage build automation (specifically CircleCI) and were working toward continuous deployment across all environments

We take advantage of AWS services to meet our various technology requirements:

PostgreSQL databases run on Aurora Serverless or Aurora clusters managed via RDS

Redis clusters are managed via ElastiCache

KMS provides managed security services

AWS Lambda and API Gateway support our serverless infrastructure; DynamoDB is also an important part of our stack

We utilise highly durable messaging technologies such as SQS Kinesis Amazon MQ and AWS EventBridge

Qualifications :

• Malaysian citizen (Required).Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or relevant Information technology industry experience.

• Minimum 4 years experience in a similar environment

• Solid working knowledge in managing cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS)

• Understanding of security best practices in the context of web applications

• Understanding of internetworking concepts and protocols

• Linux Administration experience

Additional Information :

Values and Life at Xplor

Our five core values guide us from how we hire and recognise our team members to how we interact with our customers day to day:

• Find a better way
• Do the right thing
• Say it straight
• Win together
• Own the outcome

If these values sound like you and describe people you want to work with you will thrive at Xplor.

As an Xplorer you will be part of a global network of talented colleagues who will support your success. We look for commonalities and shared passions and give people the tools they need to deliver great work and grow at speed.

Some of our perks and benefits are:

• Flexible working arrangements
• Access to free mental health support
• Ongoing dedication to Diversity & Inclusion initiatives such as D&I Council Global Mentorship Program

Ready to apply

To start your application please submit your resume and we will be in touch as soon as we can. Please include the word moonshot at the top of your message to the Hiring Manager so that we know you took the time to read our job ad.

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More about us 

More than 130000 businesses in 72 countries rely on Xplor to run their day and get paid processing over $47 billion in payments annually. Our connected ecosystem helps operators spend less time managing complexity and more time delivering the experiences that matter most. 

Xplor is backed by world-class investors Advent International Battery Ventures and Silver Lake. 

Good to know

To be considered for employment you must be legally authorised to work in the location (country) youre applying for. Xplor does not sponsor visas either at the time of hire or at any later time. 

We kindly ask you to apply through our careers portal or external job boards only. Please dont send your application via email. 

To learn more about us and our products please visit  also invite you to check out our Candidate FAQs for more information about our recruitment process and Artificial Intelligence

We believe in transparent hiring. We use an applicant tracking system that includes artificial intelligence enabled features to assist with the screening and assessment of job applications such as candidate scoring or ranking. These tools support our recruitment process but all hiring decisions are made by our recruitment team following human review. We do not rely on artificial intelligence to make final hiring decisions. Find our Candidate AI Usage guidelines here.

Xplor is dedicated to attracting retaining and developing our people regardless of gender identity ethnicity sexual orientation disability and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community.

We make it a priority to respond to every applicant.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time