Senior DevOps Engineer

Developer Operations (DevOps) at Ripple manages communication, collaboration, and integration between Development and Operations teams. They ensure infrastructures, tools, and processes are streamlined and effective for automated product delivery. You will join Ripple Treasury Infrastructure team and work across Azure (80%) and AWS (20%) environments. 

The Senior Software Engineer, DevOps will contribute to the discovery, development, and implementation of solutions to improve infrastructure and release pipelines. These solutions will include developer infrastructure, production infrastructure layout and maintenance, capacity and load testing, CI/CD infrastructure, and release process automation. You will push the boundaries with new tools and technologies and use a data-driven approach for achieving desired results. You will play a critical role helping to advance Ripple's development and production infrastructure, improving our DevOps process including deployment, monitoring, instrumentation and overall infrastructure management.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Develop, deploy, and maintain Ripple’s multi-region, multi-provider service platforms
• Supply build and development of tools for automation, monitoring, and instrumentation to reduce operational friction and increase engineering efficiency
• Work with wider engineering teams on implementation, adoption, and continuous improvements
• Build and automate new and existing platform and application lifecycle services, using data to converge on declared states with minimal human interaction
• Collaborate with product engineering to ensure code is production-ready
• Participate in the adoption of DevOps-first principles within the organization

WHAT YOU'LL BRING: 

• 6+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Extensive hands-on experience managing cloud infrastructure, deployments, and large-scale, multi-region distributed systems, preferably on Azure and AWS
• Strong proficiency in Kubernetes and experience managing container orchestration platforms and runtimes, including Docker and OCI.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform , Azure Bicep and AWS CloudFormation.
• Strong understanding of platform engineering fundamentals, including automation, reliability, scalability, high availability, and operational excellence.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, including automated environment provisioning, regression testing, and containerized build and deployment workflows.
• Experience managing artifact repositories and storage systems for build dependencies and pipeline artifacts.
• Strong knowledge of Linux operating systems, networking fundamentals, and scripting languages such as Bash and Python.
• Experience operating, administering, and troubleshooting production infrastructure, with a focus on performance, security, and reliability.
• Experience working in Agile development environments and collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a team-oriented mindset.