Description
Xplor Technologies powers the experiences at the heart of everyday life.
Join our Embedded Payments team as a DevOps Engineer to make a real impact every day.
Reporting into the DevOps Engineering Manager, you'll help us build and scale the infrastructure behind our cloud-native payment orchestration platform that processes significant transaction volume across multiple Xplor brands.
Responsibilities & Duties:
- Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform, with attention to scalability, cost, and PCI-scoped network segmentation
- Own and evolve the observability stack , SigNoz for distributed tracing and metrics, Grafana for dashboards, structured logging , so engineers can answer "what's happening in production" without paging you
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Bitbucket Pipelines, including deployment guardrails, automated rollback strategies, and environment promotion workflows
- Design and run performance and load tests with k6 or other custom tools as needed, establish baseline benchmarks, and partner with engineering to address bottlenecks before they reach production
- Participate in on-call rotations, lead incident response for infrastructure issues, and drive postmortems that produce durable fixes
- Define and track SLOs, error budgets, and operational KPIs for payment-critical services
- Improve deployment velocity and safety , faster pipelines, better preview environments, safer migration tooling
- Partner with security and compliance to maintain PCI DSS posture, support audits, and codify controls
- Manage cost and capacity across AWS , right-sizing, reserved capacity strategy, and identifying optimization opportunities
- Use AI-assisted tools effectively to accelerate infrastructure work without compromising review quality or security posture
QUALIFICATIONS:
- 5+ years of professional DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering experience, with a Computer Science/Engineering degree or equivalent
- Strong hands-on AWS experience across compute, networking, data, and event-driven services
- Production Terraform experience , module design, state management, drift handling, and multi-environment patterns
- Experience operating an observability stack in production; familiarity with SigNoz, Grafana, or comparable tools
- Experience designing and running load tests with k6 or comparable tools
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Strong shell scripting ability or similar in a scripting oriented language
- Ability to read and understand back end and front end code in order to implement infrastructure more effectively
- Solid understanding of networking fundamentals
- Understanding of access control and identity management
- Comfort leading incident response and writing postmortems that drive systemic improvement
- Fluency with AI-assisted development tools and an articulate point of view on where they help and where they don't
- Comfortable working on a 100% remote team and operating independently within an agile group