Staff DevOps Engineer

About Vestwell

Vestwell is the financial technology company powering the new savings economy. The New York City-based fintech platform redefines how people save for the critical aspects of life across retirement, education, and healthcare savings needs. Today, Vestwell enables over 350,000 businesses and nearly 1.5 Million active savers, with over $30 billion in assets saved across all 50 United States.

Vestwell offers a range of products, including workplace-delivered retirement plans, employer-offered student loan repayment benefits, and various savings accounts for education, emergencies, and individuals with disabilities.

Vestwell's platform serves a diverse clientele, including financial advisers, employers, third-party administrators, financial institutions, payroll providers, government agencies, and individual savers.

About the Role

The Engineering team is seeking a Staff level DevOps Engineer, who will be effectively contributing to the vision and execution of projects related to Infrastructure, Security, Automation, and Site Reliability.

We aim to follow Agile best practices with a focus on empowering full stack development teams, so that they can own a vertical slice of the product, and are empowered to make decisions and roadmap out a section of the product and business.

You’re a great fit for our team if you can balance detail-oriented tasks with long term strategy. Most of all, you must be passionate about what you create and the impact it can have.

Requirements

The Necessities

• Extensive professional experience in cloud infrastructure deployment and systems administration.
• Proficiency in one or more scripting languages (e.g., Python, Perl, or Bash).
• Experience administering Linux or Unix environments.
• Proven experience with Docker containerization, including building, deployment, and orchestration.
• Experience with Terraform for Infrastructure as Code provisioning.
• Configuration Management tools such as Salt, Ansible, or Puppet.
• Demonstrated experience configuring, administering, and troubleshooting firewalls and VPN solutions.
• Knowledge of monitoring, logging, and alerting best practices to maintain system reliability.
• Comprehensive understanding of TCP/IP networking, including subnetting, DHCP, DNS, and routing.
• Familiarity with best practices in:
  • Cybersecurity
  • Micro-services
  • SRE (e.g. postmortems, incident management, toil reduction, etc.)
  • SOC compliance

The Extras

• PostgreSQL database administration skills, including performance tuning and access control.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools, including Jenkins, and experience with release administration.
• Previous experience in a fast-paced, growing startup environment.

Salary

• New York: $150K-175K
• Austin & King of Prussia: $142.5K-166.25

Location Type

• Hybrid

Employment Type

• Full-time

Our Benefits

We’re an innovative, high-growth company, with lots of exciting milestones ahead. We value health and wellness at Vestwell and in addition to a dedicated Employee Wellbeing Committee, we offer competitive health coverage and generous vacation offering. We have adopted a hybrid office policy, but all employees are welcome at our bright, comfortable office with many workspace options in our Midtown Manhattan office, so everyone has a setting that is the most productive for them. Oh, and naturally we have a great 401(k) plan!

Our Process

It starts the same for every candidate: getting to know the team members through 1-2 conversations about Vestwell, your experience, and your interests. Next steps can vary by role, but the usual next steps are a skill or experience screen (e.g. a coding interview for an Engineer, a portfolio review for a Designer, deeper experience call for other roles) which leads to a virtual or in-person interview panel after that if the screens go well. Before making an offer, our interview process concludes with a references check stage for your recrui