Lead DevOps Engineer

Aspire is the leading all-in-one finance operating system for growing businesses in APAC. We are on a mission to reinvent business finance for a new generation of entrepreneurs and business owners, empowering startups and MSME to realise their full potential. 

Founded in 2018, Aspire has raised over USD 300M+ across equity and debt from world-class investors. In 2023, we successfully closed an oversubscribed USD 100 million Series C equity round led by Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Ventures with participation of Tencent, Paypal Ventures, LGT Capital Partners, Picus Capital and MassMutual Ventures. To power our solutions, we have partnered with some of the best companies in the world such as Visa and Wise and helped more than 15,000 businesses using our suite of products.

For 2 consecutive years in 2022 & 2023, Aspire has been awarded Best Employer of the Year and Startup of the year by Asia FinTech Awards, and also LinkedIn’s Top Startup in Singapore. In 2023, we also made it to CB Insights’ Top 100 Global Fintech List. 

You will be amazed by the energy and experience of our team! Aspire serves as an environment for you to innovate and drive change with our team of ex-entrepreneurs, ex-founders, and high-achievers with international and diverse backgrounds.

Are you a top talent who is passionate about entrepreneurship? Join our rapidly growing team to make an impact in the fintech space! 

About the Team:

As we enter our next phase, we are focused on building a next-generation architecture that can sustain high growth and endure for years to come. To help us on this journey, we're hiring a highly skilled DevOps Manager with diverse backgrounds who can drive and help us accelerate and enhance our technical capabilities on this journey. You will be building leading FinTech products across South-East Asia on an international and diverse team.

About the Role:

• Bridging the gaps b/w security, QA and dev teams.
• Managing application deployment & AWS platforms - automate and improve development and release processes.
• Working with the Dev team to understand the application architecture and its bottlenecks in-depth.
• Creating, managing, and maintaining data stores & data platform infra using IaC.
• Owning the end-to-end Availability, Performance, and Capacity of applications and their infrastructure.
• Creating, managing, and maintaining the Internal infrastructure platform which manages the CI/CD process, data stores, Kubernetes etc
• Providing 24X7 infra & app support, building processes and documenting "tribal" knowledge around the same time.
• Managing the SLO/Error Budgets/Alerts of the internal infrastructure platform.
• Managing outages, doing detailed RCA with developers, and identifying ways to avoid that situation.
• Mentor and train L1, L2 engineers and continually improve app and infra support processes.
• Automate toil and repetitive work

Minimum Qualifications: 

• 8+ Years of experience in managing high traffic, large-scale microservices and infrastructure.
• Extensive experience with Linux administration and understanding of the various Linux kernel subsystems (memory, storage, network etc).
• Experience in troubleshooting, managing, and deploying containerised environments using Docker/containerd, and Kubernetes is a must.
• Good to have hands-on experience in managing and troubleshooting the Kubernetes/containerised environment.
• Extensive experience in DNS, TCP/IP, Routing and Load Balancing.
• Expertise in GitOps, Infrastructure as a Code tool such as Terraform, Plumi, Crossplane etc. and Configuration Management Tools such as Chef, Puppet, Saltstack, and Ansible.
• Good to have good understanding on databases Mysql, Aurora.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Working experience with full stack development, understanding of different tech stacks
• Prior experience with PHP frameworks
• FinTech domain experience

What we offer

• Uncapped flexible annual leave.
• Hybrid work arrangement. 
• Training subsidy for your professional growth.
• Wellness benefit.
• Team bonding budget to foster collaboration and sense of belonging.
• Flexibility to work from anywhere (for up to 90 days per annum).
• Culture is Key: We always strive to cultivate a special culture that brings special talents together - You can learn more about our culture on our careers site and LinkedIn Life page.
  

Equal Opportunity Statement 

Aspire is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by applicable laws. 

 

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