{"id":698510,"url":"https://alion.io/job/self-senior-devops-engineer","title":"Senior DevOps Engineer","company":{"id":689807,"name":"Self","domain":"self.inc","url":"https://alion.io/company/self-4","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":null},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Austin, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":130000,"max":160000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":160000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Bash","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Claude","optional":false},{"name":"DNS","optional":false},{"name":"Git","optional":false},{"name":"GitLab","optional":false},{"name":"Jenkins","optional":false},{"name":"Linux","optional":false},{"name":"Machine Learning","optional":false},{"name":"PostgreSQL","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-06-18T15:35:54Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-06-18","last_verified_at":"2026-09-23T15:59:47Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":97,"trust":{"level":"stale","repost_count":0,"flags":["stale"],"days_open":96},"description":"Self Financial is a venture-backed, high-growth FinTech company with a mission to increase economic inclusion and financial resilience by empowering people to build credit and build savings.\nWe're looking for people who share our passion and are driven to tackle challenges, find solutions and make the financial space better for the communities we serve.\nOur team is passionate about challenging the status quo of the credit industry by providing people accessible tools to take control of their credit. Executing on our mission requires deep collaboration across our teams to ensure our products reach the people who can benefit from them the most, particularly the 100 million+ Americans who have no or low credit.\nAs a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will deploy, monitor, and maintain the production environment/services, taking a holistic view of system health, while ensuring that our platform is stable and balanced. Self's DevOps Engineers are a blend of pragmatic operators and software developers that apply sound engineering principles, operational discipline, and mature automation to our infrastructure. You will report to the Manager, DevOps Engineering.\nWhat you'll do:\nWork closely with Developers to provide feedback and drive operational improvements within our production infrastructure\nDevelop infrastructure and network best practices\nParticipate in our on-call operations and monitoring pool\nDocument processes and procedures with the appropriate level of detail\nCreate, maintain, extend, and operate the SDLC platform used to build, test, package, and deploy our web and mobile services and applications\nMeasure and optimize system performance to push our capabilities forward, get ahead of customer needs, and innovate to continually improve\nProvide primary operational support for large, distributed software applications\nProduction performance and uptime analysis\nWhat you'll bring:\n5+ years of administration experience with AWS\n5+ years of experience within a high-performance, 24x7, SRE/SysOps/DevOps team\n5+ years of experience with a version control system (e.g., Git)\nKnowledge of one or more scripting languages (e.g., Python or Bash)\n2+ years of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform\nExperience with the following technologies:\nBuild and scale AI-native infrastructure - automating CI/CD, observability, and incident response with Claude at the core of the workflow\nModern web application frameworks\nPipeline-based SDLC automation such as GitLab, Jenkins Pipelines, AWS CodePipeline, or other automation tools\nDelivering services via containers to AWS\nWorking in a security and compliance-sensitive industry or environment\nWorking knowledge of the following:\nDNS\nHTTP/HTTPS\nLinux\nSSH/SCP/SFTP\nAbility to be flexible, multi-task, and organize priorities in a fast-paced work environment, while maintaining a high level of focus and accuracy\nAnd these skills are a bonus:\nExperience maintaining RDBMS systems (PostgreSQL preferred)\nBachelor of Science degree in Computer Science\nExperience with MLOps (DevOps for Machine Learning)\nBase salary range: $130,000 - $160,000 annually. Individual pay is based on factors unique to each candidate, including skill set, experience, and other job-related reasons.\nBenefits and Perks:\nWe have the compensation and benefits you expect. But there's one thing that Self Financial can offer that many companies cannot: we can positively change the world, while making a profit. We are a team of Builders, empowering our customers to build their dreams. \nOur perks include:\nCompany equity in the form of Stock Options\nPerformance-based bonuses\nGenerous employer-paid health, vision and dental insurance coverage\nFlexible vacation policy\nEducational assistance\nFree gym membership\nCasual dress code\nTeam building events and activities\nHybridwork arrangements/schedules\nPaid parental leave \nSelf Financial requires all employees hired to successfully pass a background check.\nWe are an Equal Opportunity Employer.\n At this time, we are only able to consider applicants who are U.S. Citizens or Green Card Holders for employment opportunities. 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