DevOps Manager - Vancouver, Canada - E-xact Transactions Canada Ltd

E-xact Transactions Canada Ltd

Verified Company

Vancouver, Canada

1 week ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

Position:
DevOps Manager

Location:
Vancouver, BC or Scottsdale, Az or Remote

About Us
Exact Payments is a leading provider of high-performance payment services to bank partners, software platforms, and omnichannel merchants.

Exact delivers a highly scaled payments platform integrated with leading processors in the US and Canada including Fiserv/First Data, Elavon, TSYS, Chase Canada, and Moneris.

Founded in 1999, Exact is a proven player in the eCommerce payments market with deep expertise in building and supporting payment platforms for large banks, ISVs, and its own direct client portfolio.

Our cloud-based technology is fully redundant and offers comprehensive integration options including Rest APIs, PCI-compliant hosted payment pages and virtual terminal interfaces.

The technology stack is built for scale delivering the highest level of performance and reliability at transaction volumes exceeding 1 billion annually.

Exact is a private equity-backed company headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Vancouver, British Columbia.

Your Role
The mission for this role is to lead and manage a team of DevOps engineers building and maintaining a

modern Fintech platform in the AWS environment, Our DevOps engineers are asked to manage a unique

set of coding responsibilities. Rather than specialize in a single scripting language, a DevOps engineer

will have demonstrated competency with multiple languages, such as Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Python,

PHP, and others. Our DevOps engineers must feel comfortable writing and debugging issues in multiple

languages and OS environments.

What you will be doing
The DevOps Manager is responsible for recruiting, training, and managing a team of experienced,

innovative, and collaborative engineers managing the Company's entire AWS cloud infrastructure. Core

responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Recruit talented, experienced, and collaborative Engineers. Align skills and interests to areas of

need in the business. Develop an onboarding and training program which emphasizes

continuous learning and regular education and skills development.

Lead our DevOps team and define team goals for operating as a Cloud Center of Excellence

(CCOE) team.

Scale Code: the DevOps Manager evaluates the product and writes code to scale functions to fit

the needs of the business. Scalability is one of the most important aspects of writing good code,

as it facilitates future growth.

Automation: the DevOps Manager needs to know how to use and understand the roles of the

following types of tools:
version control; continuous integration servers; configuration

management; deployment automation; containers; infrastructure orchestration; monitoring &
analytics; testing & cloud quality tools; and network protocols.

Test: the DevOps Manager organizes and evaluates testing processes once code is implemented
Distribute: the DevOps Manager organizes and participates in peer review processes
Monitor: the DevOps Manager evaluates new code when added, evaluating for code bugs,

regression issues, and vulnerabilities. Responsible for continually monitoring our infrastructure,

identifying and remediating bugs, and ensuring that it is ready for the end-user.

Communicate: the DevOps Manager must have outstanding interpersonal skills along with strong

verbal and written communication. The Manager will be regularly engaged with our CTO and

lead software developers in order to understand our software platform growth plan and align our

AWS infrastructure to support business growth.

Shared Responsibilities
At Exact Payments, all DevOps team members are responsible for (i) Collaboration; (ii) Maintaining CI/CD

Pipelines; (iii) Automation Implementation; (iv) On-Call Incident Response, and (v) Application

Maintenance and Documentation.

About You

Minimum 3 years of experience managing a team of DevOps, Operations, or software engineers
Education and/or experience typically obtained through completion of a Bachelor's Degree in

Computer Science or equivalent certifications

Minimum of 5 years of related experience in building, operating and maintaining cloud

infrastructure on AWS (VPC, Security Groups, IAM, S3, EKS, CloudWatch, CloudFront, SQS,

SNS, Lambda, etc.)

Demonstrated prior DevOps, software engineering, or related experience.
Ability to work on multiple projects and a general understanding of software environments and

network topologies

Able to facilitate technical design sessions
Solid understanding of an iterative software development process
Ability to use Linux administration commandline programs and create/edit scripts
Knowledge of one or more of the tools
Chef, Ansible, puppet.
Knowledge of one or more of the tools
IAC, Containerization, and orchestration (Terraform,

Docker & Kubernetes)