Enterprise Software Automation Architect

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Enterprise Software Automation Architect

Apply locations Brazil - Remote time type Full time posted on Posted 5 Days Ago job requisition id R16164

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.

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

• Architect, 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

• Experience in *nix OS and scripting experience in Python and Bash.
• Cloud experience in AWS with emphasis on Security, VPC networking and creating HA architectures and autoscaling.
• Hands-on experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform).
• Experience building REST API based services.
• Experience setting up a complete DevOps environment and CI/CD platform from scratch leading to canary releases, A/B testing and blue/green deployments.
• Experience working as a DevOps engineer in an engineering team that builds cloud-native platforms.
• Experience with monitoring in the cloud to have continuous scrutiny over platform/application performance, billing, security, and anomaly detection.
• The ability and appetite to learn new technologies fast and find ways to automate routine tasks.
• Exemplary written and verbal communication skills in English.
• It would be nice if you have experience with API Gateways, AzureDevOps, GitHub, and Cloud platform(s) (AWS GCP, Microsoft Azure).
• Can speak to operational experience, logging, monitoring and tracing technologies.
• An understanding of GitOps.

WEX is a global commerce platform that helps businesses solve for operational complexities like employee benefits, managing and mobilizing fleets, and streamlining payments.

With over 6,500 employees, we work with large and small companies in more than 200 countries and territories, and can tailor our services to meet the unique needs of their businesses.

We hire people who share our passion for continuous innovation and client service that is unparalleled in the industry. Offering comprehensive and market competitive benefits, our offerings are designed to support your personal and professional well-being. If you’re looking for a growing career - come be part of WEX today. To learn more about our employee benefits, please click here.

WEX is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, disability or other protected status. WEX promotes a drug-free workplace.

Qualified individuals with a disability have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. If you require a reasonable accommodation as a result of your disability at any point in the job application process, please submit your request through our Reasonable Accommodation Request Form.