DevOps Engineer

ClassWallet

About The Position

At ClassWallet, we are redefining how public funds reach the people who need them. We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to play a key role within our platform team, helping to optimize our cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and system visibility. This is a role for a technical leader who views scalability, automation, and observability as foundational elements of a world-class engineering organization. Reporting to the Sr. Engineering Platform Manager, you will work at the critical intersection of development, operations, and compliance. You will help drive the continuous evolution of our AWS environments, optimize our GitHub-centric deployment lifecycles, and build a proactive observability culture. You will work as a high-impact peer to our Engineering and Security teams, ensuring our platform remains highly available, performant, and reliable for our government partners while strictly adhering to federal and state compliance standards. The ideal candidate is an automation expert who thrives in high-stakes environments and possesses a deep "builder and optimizer" mindset.

Requirements

Minimum of 7+ years of experience designing, building, and managing complex Cloud systems (AWS), ideally within FinTech, government, or similarly regulated, high-availability environments.
Hands-on experience building, managing, and automating infrastructure that adheres to strict government-level security standards, specifically GovRAMP and FedRAMP.
Experience partnering with security teams to maintain SOC2 Type 2 compliance is essential.
Expert-level proficiency in AWS architecture and services (e.g., EKS/ECS, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, Route53).
Deep, hands-on expertise in GitHub, GitHub Actions, and advanced deployment strategies.
Adept at optimizing runner performance, creating reusable workflow templates, managing secrets, and implementing zero-downtime deployment models (Blue/Green, Canary).
Extensive experience implementing and managing modern observability stacks (e.g., Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch).
Highly skilled at configuring distributed tracing, complex alerting, log aggregation, and APM to ensure constant, actionable visibility into system health.
Deep knowledge of Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation to automate the provisioning, scaling, and compliance auditing of environments reliably and consistently.
Strong understanding of supporting Node-based systems and modern web applications within containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
Proven ability to create and maintain stringent, audit-ready documentation.
Ability to author detailed runbooks, architectural diagrams, disaster recovery procedures, and map technical controls to compliance frameworks.
Exceptional communication skills.
Ability to foster a culture of end-to-end accountability among Engineering teams.
Seamlessly bridge the gap between code creation, robust security practices, and continuous production reliability.

Responsibilities

Optimize cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and system visibility.
Drive the continuous evolution of AWS environments.
Optimize GitHub-centric deployment lifecycles.
Build a proactive observability culture.
Ensure the platform remains highly available, performant, and reliable.
Strictly adhere to federal and state compliance standards.
Implement a highly resilient, automated AWS architecture.
Refine infrastructure baselines to ensure systems can scale.
Bake FedRAMP and GovRAMP compliance requirements directly into infrastructure as code.
Optimize GitHub Actions pipelines to reduce build times.
Automate testing and security gates.
Enable engineering teams to ship code rapidly, safely, and independently.
Implement comprehensive metrics, tracing, and intelligent alerting.
Empower the team to anticipate and resolve performance bottlenecks before they impact users.