DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer Location: Baltimore, MD area (Hybrid — minimum 2 days/week in office) About the Company Our client is a successful, established SaaS company (20+ years in business) operating in the financial technology space. They're a small, close-knit team where individual contributors have real impact, and they've built a reputation for adapting quickly through constant industry and regulatory change. Millions of consumers have used their tools to improve their financial lives. The Opportunity This is a mid-level type role, infrastructure-focused DevOps role supporting a SaaS platform. You'll partner closely with software development and data engineering to build, maintain, and operate infrastructure — with an emphasis on keeping the day-to-day operational picture clear: Are systems healthy? Can we deploy safely? If something breaks, can we roll back fast? What You'll Do Own CI/CD pipelines — build, maintain, and expand pipelines to speed up testing and deployment; strong preference for candidates comfortable with blue/green deployment strategies and clean rollback capabilities when something goes wrong. Monitoring & alerting — proactively build out monitoring, and importantly, tune alarm states so alerts are meaningful rather than noisy. Support engineering teams in troubleshooting and root-cause analysis. AWS infrastructure — administer and scale a multi-environment AWS environment (AWS Organization structure); evaluate new AWS/cloud services for cost, scalability, and performance improvements. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) — implement and maintain infrastructure using CDK, Terraform, or equivalent tooling. Container orchestration — hands-on knowledge of ECS and Fargate, and judgment on when to use which. Automation — design automated processes and testing workflows to reduce manual intervention across dev/test/release cycles. Third-party DevOps tooling — manage integrations for performance reporting, vulnerability scanning, and SIEM systems. Security & compliance — support alignment with SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001:2022 requirements (audit logging, access controls, encryption standards). Cross-functional collaboration — work with developers, architecture, QA, and project management to scope and execute releases smoothly. What We're Looking For 4+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer, specifically using AWS Strong, hands-on experience with CloudWatch alarms or equivalent — setting up and tuning alarm states, not just standing up dashboards Solid Infrastructure as Code experience (AWS CDK or Terraform) Working knowledge of ECS vs. Fargate trade-offs Experience with blue/green deployments and rollback strategy Experience deploying developer code to AWS in a secure environment Familiarity with source control (Bitbucket, GitLab, etc.) and CI/CD pipelines Experience with relational databases (MySQL Aurora RDS preferred) In-depth networking experience with a security focus Comfort troubleshooting distributed systems to root cause Genuine interest in — or active use of — AI tools to improve DevOps workflows (this team wants people who lean into AI, not just tolerate it) Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field Excellent communication skills and ability to work independently Why This Role Meaningful mission — direct impact on how people access credit and lending Outstanding individual and family healthcare plans Flexible/open PTO Company 401(k) contribution HSA/FSA options Professional development and tuition assistance Hybrid schedule, easy office access with hassle-free parking and catered lunches (M–Th) Salary commensurate with experience, plus performance-based annual bonus and incentives