Senior Automation Engineer

About the Team/Role

 We’re the Shared Business Services team at WEX in Enterprise Architecture. We are in the process of building and scaling our “Paved Road”, or platform of services and applications that set the standard for processes and tooling for development teams across the company.

We look at trends, tools, processes and methods that are easy to use and help with automation of software builds, storage, and deployments. 

From new internal product rollouts, to automation, to supporting development teams, we’ve got more work than we can handle and we’re looking for great people to come along for the ride. 

As a Senior engineer, this role will also play a pivotal role in consulting with teams across the company, researching and evaluating tools and technologies that support DevOps principles and assist in building reference examples that can be used by the whole company.  

This role will also play a key leadership role in driving standardization of technology toolkit from concept to implementation and help teams migrate to standard solutions.

How you'll make an impact

• Design and help develop automation frameworks enabling teams roll out micro services leveraging API Gateways, Tokenization, API Security, Service Mesh and Containerization technologies

• Research, evaluate and recommend technologies and usage patterns collaborating with development and devops resources across the organization

• Provide coaching, mentoring and expertise in standard tools used for software development and help evolve the future roadmap: Containerization, CI/CD pipelines, automated version control systems, software artifacts management tools, etc

• Drive collaboration with architects, dev teams, dev ops engineers across WEX and external teams like Cloud Engineering, Information security and compliance to ensure corporate compliance of CI/CD release pipelines.

• Deploy and maintain solutions that are high availability, secure, compliant, resilient and multi region capable

• Respond to production and service escalations.  Lead incident and root-cause analysis with calm and an eye towards service improvement

• Plan and coordinate with SRE team for service upgrades, compliance related activities for the platform infrastructure  

• Build HA/DR solutions, test and ensure the solution and processes are well documented

• Automate tasks to drive consistency, reduce complexity, and eliminate/minimize human involvement wherever possible

• Work as an integral part of productive engineering teams that put an emphasis on code quality, continuous delivery, peer reviews, and strong engineering practices.

Experience you'll bring

• Programming experience in any language

• Experience building REST API based services, Authentication and Authorization using industry standard protocols

• Strong foundation or experience using AWS Cloud services -  DNS, Load balancer and Networking.

• Experience in building API's and setting up api authentication 

• Hands-on experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform)

• The ability and appetite to learn new technologies fast and find ways to automate routine tasks

• Exemplary written and verbal communication skills in English.

• Experience with API Gateways, GitHub, Auth0

• Experience with Cloud platform(s) (AWS GCP, Microsoft Azure) 

• Can speak to operational experience, logging, monitoring and tracing technologies

• An understanding of GitOps

• Nice to Have: Experience developing apps using Python, Java and Go, Machine Learning and integrating AI models.