[Hiring] DevOps Engineer @ClassWallet

Role Description

At ClassWallet, we are redefining how public funds reach the people who need them. We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to play a key role within our platform team, helping to optimize our cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and system visibility. This is a role for a technical leader who views scalability, automation, and observability as foundational elements of a world-class engineering organization.

Reporting to the Sr. Engineering Platform Manager, you will:

• Work at the critical intersection of development, operations, and compliance.
• Drive the continuous evolution of our AWS environments.
• Optimize our GitHub-centric deployment lifecycles.
• Build a proactive observability culture.
• Ensure our platform remains highly available, performant, and reliable for our government partners while strictly adhering to federal and state compliance standards.

The ideal candidate is an automation expert who thrives in high-stakes environments and possesses a deep "builder and optimizer" mindset.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7+ years of experience designing, building, and managing complex Cloud systems (AWS), ideally within FinTech, government, or similarly regulated, high-availability environments.
• Hands-on experience building, managing, and automating infrastructure that adheres to strict government-level security standards, specifically GovRAMP and FedRAMP.
• Experience partnering with security teams to maintain SOC2 Type 2 compliance.
• Expert-level proficiency in AWS architecture and services (e.g., EKS/ECS, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, Route53).
• Deep, hands-on expertise in GitHub, GitHub Actions, and advanced deployment strategies.
• Extensive experience implementing and managing modern observability stacks (e.g., Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch).
• Deep knowledge of Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation to automate provisioning, scaling, and compliance auditing.
• Strong understanding of supporting Node-based systems and modern web applications within containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Proven ability to create and maintain stringent, audit-ready documentation.
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to foster a culture of end-to-end accountability among Engineering teams.

Requirements

• Move beyond standard configurations to implement a highly resilient, automated AWS architecture.
• Refine our infrastructure baselines, ensuring systems can effortlessly scale to handle rapid growth while incorporating FedRAMP and GovRAMP compliance requirements.
• Transform our CI/CD processes into a frictionless, automated engine.
• Optimize our GitHub Actions pipelines to reduce build times, automate testing and security gates, and enable engineering teams to ship code rapidly, safely, and independently.
• Shift our monitoring posture from reactive troubleshooting to proactive observability.
• Implement comprehensive metrics, tracing, and intelligent alerting to empower the team to anticipate and resolve performance bottlenecks.

Benefits

• Excellent salary and benefits commensurate with experience.
• Positive, family-oriented team environment focused on encouragement, positive reinforcement, and gratitude.
• Healthy perspective on work-life balance.

Company Description

ClassWallet, a leading financial technology company in the United States, serves agencies delegated responsibility to manage public funds. ClassWallet has processed over $6.7 billion to date and serves public agencies across 39 states. In its 11+ years in operation, ClassWallet has completed over 12M transactions, funded 1.1M recipients, processed over 5M applications, and now serves 300+ state and local agency clients, supported by a team of 280+ full-time staff.

ClassWallet ranks as the 61st fastest growing software company on the Inc. 5000 list and the 21st fastest growing financial technology company on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 in 2023.

ClassWallet is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants are considered for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status.