Senior Devops/Data Engineer

BlueChip Financial (BCF) is looking for an experienced Senior Devops/Data Engineer who loves building software to help drive our company's growth. This position reports directly to the BCF Solutions Architect. The role will be split into two different areas:

• Devops / infrastructure (70-80% of the time)
• Data engineering (20-30% of the time)

In this role, you will

• Drive the infrastructure strategy with the rest of the devops team
• Be responsible to build, manage, and automate our AWS infrastructure
• Be responsible to maintain and grow our data lakehouse infrastructure & implementation
• Be a steward of security by adopting necessary tools & processes
• Provide leadership to the entire engineering team on a broad spectrum of infrastructure/big data topics
• Identify and adopt high-level technologies, processes, and services that impact BCF on a system-wide scope
• Participate in the eng-support L2 rotation

Requirements

• 8+ Years experience as a devops engineer 
• 5+ years experience with AWS cloud platform, including:
• AWS SDK, AWS CLI/UI, to provision and configure infrastructures in AWS Cloud and most AWS Services such as VPC, Route53, Private and Public subnets, route tables, IGW, EC2 Instances, CloudFront, API Gateway, IAM, ELB, Autoscaling, CloudWatch, EFS, NFS, EBS, S3, RDS, Lambda, SQS/SNS, Kafka,  Security groups, etc.
• 5+ years experience with Terraform/Terragrunt
• 5+ years experience with event processing infrastructure
• 2+ years experience as a Data engineer with Databricks including:
• data pipelines, Debezium
• Experienced with Spark
• Expert proficiency with Python
• Data modeling
• Model serving
• Expert proficiency in deploying, maintaining and scaling apps
• Docker, Kubernetes, Serverless functions
• Expert proficiency in setting up CI/CD pipelines (tools/processes/governance)
• Created and maintained fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using tools such as Git, CircleCI, AWS Code build and Code Deploy / Code pipeline.
• Proficient with both Relational and Non-Relational databases
• Experienced with Security vulnerability scanning tools (Guard Duty, Inspector)
• Experienced with building Monitoring dashboards and leveraging tools such as Cloudwatch, Datadog, Sumologic

Desired Qualifications

• Prior startup experience
• Prior experience with financial companies
• Experience with JAVA/Scala

Location and Travel

BCF is headquartered in Belcourt, North Dakota, with offices in Minneapolis, San Diego, and Atlanta. This position can be located at any of these offices. BCF expects a hybrid work environment with a two day office policy. Travel should be relatively limited, around 10-15%% per month when needed.

Benefits

• The opportunity to help bring much-needed income and economic development to the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians
• Competitive salary and performance bonuses
• Generous employee benefits plan, including robust healthcare plans, matching 401K, and four weeks of PTO
• Company-sponsored professional development and training opportunities

About the Company

BlueChip Financial (d/b/a Spotloan.com) is a leading online direct lender founded in 2012 that utilizes advanced underwriting technology to provide short-term loans to Americans in need. BCF is wholly owned and operated by the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota, a Federally-recognized Native American Tribe (the “Tribe”).  
BlueChip Financial is an integral part of the Tribe’s economic development efforts, and it is an essential provider of employment opportunities on the Tribe’s reservation.  Employment decisions at BCF are based on qualifications, ability, and merit.  When qualifications are equal, candidates who are enrolled members of the Tribe will receive preference.  After considering this preference, it is BCF’s policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability, or national origin.