Senior DevOps Engineer

AppZen is the leader in autonomous spend-to-pay software. Its patented artificial intelligence accurately and efficiently processes information from thousands of data sources so that organizations can better understand enterprise spend at scale to make smarter business decisions. It seamlessly integrates with existing accounts payable, expense, and card workflows to read, understand, and make real-time decisions based on your unique spend profile, leading to faster processing times and fewer instances of fraud or wasteful spend. Global enterprises, including one-third of the Fortune 500, use AppZen’s invoice, expense, and card transaction solutions to replace manual finance processes and accelerate the speed and agility of their businesses. To learn more, visit us at www.appzen.com.
We seek an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to lead and enhance our cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability, security, and scalability of mission-critical applications. In this role, you will design and implement robust DevOps solutions, fostering a continuously delivered microservices environment. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive best practices and innovation, ensuring rapid deployment and immediate response to issues. The ideal candidate has 5-7+ years of experience in a Cloud/SaaS company, a passion for cutting-edge technology and a commitment to building resilient, scalable systems that support our success.
This position is required to commute into our San Jose, CA office three days a week on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays.

You Will:

• Design and implementation of elastically scalable infrastructure solutions.
• Define, enforce, and continuously improve stringent security standards across all systems.
• Design systems for business continuity, ensuring resilience and disaster recovery capabilities.
• Implement and maintain robust monitoring, metrics, and alert systems to ensure high availability.
• Evaluate, recommend, and adopt the most appropriate and up-to-date technologies for the organization.
• Ensure seamless integration of DevOps practices within an Agile/Scrum environment while responding to urgent operational needs.
• Maintain and promote high standards of work quality across the team, driving best practices.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning and growth by encouraging the exploration of new tools, technologies, and processes.

Must-Have:

• Expert knowledge of microservices architecture and design.
• Extensive experience with Kubernetes (AWS EKS preferred) and AWS ECS.
• Strong experience with both SQL and NoSQL database management.
• Expert-level experience with AWS cloud services.
• Hands-on experience with ISO 27001 / SOC2 compliance and audit initiatives.
• Proficient in Linux systems and internals.
• Experience in high-availability environments with a focus on scalability and resilience.
• 6+ years of experience in setting up and maintaining cloud environments.
• Proficient in Terraform for infrastructure as code.
• Experience with Jenkins or similar CI/CD tools.
• Proficiency in scripting and programming languages such as Shell and Python.
• Hands-on experience with cost optimization, security, and automation in cloud environments.
• Ability to work effectively in a global, distributed team environment.
• US Citizen only for this role

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience with workflow/orchestration engines.
• Familiarity with distributed systems architecture.
• Prior experience in a startup environment.
• Experience building and supporting highly available (99.999% uptime) systems.
• Knowledge of streaming infrastructure technologies.
• Experience designing and maintaining auto-scalable microservices.
• Proficiency with Terraform for infrastructure automation.
• Familiarity with JIRA or similar project management tools is a plus.
• Experience with OWASP security practices or CISSP certification.
• Hands-on experience with ECS/Fargate.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field is required; a master's degree is a plus.

We are equal opportunity employer and value diversity. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.