Senior DevOps Engineer - Kubernetes

FICO (

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FICO) is a leading global analytics software company, helping businesses in 100+ countries make better decisions. Join our world-class team today and fulfill your career potential! The Opportunity "We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to work with cutting edge cloud technologies with a team focused on delivery of secure cloud solutions and products to enterprise customers. You will be part of a highly energetic team of software engineers responsible for transactional processing of high-volume, low-latency decisioning and analytics execution. These capabilities will drive critical business value in a high growth area for FICO" - Software Engineering-Sr Director What You'll Contribute Partner with product managers to translate platform priorities into scalable, forward-looking infrastructure strategies. Architect and own CI/CD pipelines using ArgoCD, Tekton, or similar tools, ensuring high availability across environments. Design and implement enterprise-grade observability solutions including monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing for Kubernetes-based applications. Collaborate with architects and engineers to optimize deployments, performance, and scalability on Kubernetes. Drive continuous improvement of engineering practices, establishing standards that elevate efficiency, reliability, and operational excellence. Architect and automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management leveraging AWS services. Own security and compliance posture across cloud infrastructure, defining and enforcing policies organization-wide. What We're Seeking Extensive experience architecting and operating data-intensive, containerized applications on Kubernetes at scale, including debugging and troubleshooting complex production issues. Advanced proficiency across AWS services including EKS, EC2, S3, IAM, Route 53, and ECR. Deep expertise in observability using Prometheus and Grafana, with a strong grasp of security best practices across cloud and Kubernetes environments. Strong scripting and automation capabilities (e.g., Python, Bash, GitHub Workflow). Experience with infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, CrossPlane, AWS ACK). Demonstrated expertise with Helm and ArgoCD, designing and managing complex CD pipelines across multi-environment setups. Our Offer to You An inclusive culture strongly reflecting our core values: Act Like an Owner, Delight Our Customers and Earn the Respect of Others. The opportunity to make an impact and develop professionally by leveraging your unique strengths and participating in valuable learning experiences. Highly competitive compensation, benefits and rewards programs that encourage you to bring your best every day and be recognized for doing so. An engaging, people-first work environment offering work/life balance, employee resource groups, and social events to promote interaction and camaraderie. The targeted base pay range for this role is: $115,500 to $181,500 with this range reflecting differences in candidate knowledge, skills and experience. #LI-Remote #LI-CG2 Why Make a Move to FICO? At FICO, you can develop your career with a leading organization in one of the fastest-growing fields in technology today - Big Data analytics. You'll play a part in our commitment to help businesses use data to improve every choice they make, using advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, optimization, and much more. FICO makes a real difference in the way businesses operate worldwide:
  • Credit Scoring — FICO® Scores are used by 90 of the top 100 US lenders.
  • Fraud Detection and Security — 4 billion payment cards globally are protected by FICO fraud systems.
  • Lending — 3/4 of US mortgages are approved using the FICO Score.
Global trends toward digital transformation have created tremendous demand for FICO's solutions, placing us among the world's top 100 software companies by revenue. We help many of the world's largest banks, insurers, retailers, telecommunications providers and other firms reach a new level of success. Our success is dependent on really talented people - just like you - who thrive on the collaboration and innovation that's nurtured by a diverse and inclusive environment. We'll provide the support you need, while ensuring you have the freedom to develop your skills and grow your career. Join FICO and help change the way business thinks! Learn more about how you can fulfil your potential at www.fico.com/Careers FICO promotes a culture of inclusion and seeks to attract a diverse set of candidates for each job opportunity. We are an equal employment opportunity employer and we're proud to offer employment and advancement opportunities to all candidates without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Research has shown that women and candidates from underrepresented communities may not apply for an opportunity if they don't meet all stated qualifications. While our qualifications are clearly related to role success, each candidate's profile is unique and strengths in certain skill and/or experience areas can be equally effective. If you believe you have many, but not necessarily all, of the stated qualifications we encourage you to apply. Information submitted with your application is subject to the FICO Privacy policy at https://www.fico.com/en/privacy-policy FICO (
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FICO) is a leading global analytics software company, helping businesses in 100+ countries make better decisions. Join our world-class team today and fulfil your career potential!
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