Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
About Tala
Tala is a pioneering fintech company on a mission to empower the Global Majority – 4 billion people overlooked by traditional financial systems. With nearly half a billion dollars in equity and debt funding, we're serving millions of customers across three continents. Our achievements have been recognized by Fortune Impact 20, CNBC Disruptor 50, CNBC World's Top Fintech Company, Forbes Fintech 50, and Chief's The New Era of Leadership Award. We're expanding our product offerings, entering new markets, and exploring crypto opportunities. If you're passionate about our mission and have an entrepreneurial spirit, we want to hear from you!
Our platform enables lending and financial services globally, allowing people in emerging markets to start and grow businesses, manage daily needs, and achieve financial goals with confidence. Over 9 million people in Kenya, the Philippines, Mexico, and India have used Tala products. As a remote-first company, we have a global team and offices in Santa Monica, CA (HQ); Nairobi, Kenya; Mexico City, Mexico; Manila, the Philippines; and Bangalore, India.
If you're driven by the impact you can make at Tala, we'd love to have you on board!
The Role
We're seeking a highly skilled Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to design, implement, and maintain scalable infrastructure and applications on AWS public cloud environments using a DevOps mindset. You will bring world-class cloud-native infrastructure and automation expertise to implement solutions for deployment, monitoring, and remediation in an automated fashion.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive automation of infrastructure and platform services in Public Clouds (AWS, GCP, and Azure) using Terraform and Ansible
- Architect new solutions with development for infrastructure and platform
- Design and manage Continuous Deployment using Kubernetes, ArgoCD, and Jenkins
- Monitor applications and services within environments and participate in on-call rotations to resolve issues and implement strategies to prevent future occurrences
- Set up intelligent application performance alerts in observability tools to identify and fix issues before they impact business services and end-users
- Stay up-to-date with technologies outside your expertise to drive innovation and improvement
- 6-7 years of experience deploying and automating infrastructure in public cloud environments using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, etc.)
- In-depth hands-on experience with at least one public Cloud platform
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production environments
- Experience with Continuous Deployment tools (Jenkins, ArgoCD, etc.)
- Experience with Logging and Monitoring tools for SaaS (Sumo, Splunk, Datadog, etc.)
- Understanding of cloud-based web applications and interest in measuring, analyzing, and improving distributed systems