Who we are:

At ZayZoon, we are on a mission to save 10 million hardworking employees 10 billion dollars. We’ve created a financial empowerment platform that helps businesses of all sizes make a big impact on employee financial wellness.

We offer a variety of financial wellness services, like earned wage access, that allows employees to access their earned wages ahead of payday. With 74% of ZayZoon customers reporting reduced financial stress, we know our solutions help lead to happier and more productive employees.

ZayZoon was also recognized for its growth in the 2024 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 and top-10 growth companies in Canada by CIX awards. Our recent funding extension has raised our Series B funding round to nearly $50 million USD 🎉

Join us in shaping the future of employee financial wellness and building services that address the immediate needs of today's employees.

About the role:

We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability/DevOps Engineer to take ZayZoon’s cloud infrastructure to the next level with complex AWS builds, infrastructure-as-code, and observability/logging/APM solutions. You'll work in an embedded reliability team, alongside app and data engineers, to monitor, benchmark, and scale Zayzoon’s products. You will work with first class technologies and staff to leverage all the goodies AWS has to offer, as well as creating a bridge between our bare metal infrastructure and our Ruby on Rails production app. Predictability, reliability, and scalability are your three favourite words.

• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code CloudFormation templates, emphasizing serverless resources (ECS, Fargate, lambda)

• Instrumentation and daily metrics analysis of both infrastructure performance and our Ruby on Rails applications, using AWS tooling (Athena, CloudTrail, etc) and third party observability platforms (DataDog, OTel)

• Manage deployment pipelines, including blue/green and intelligent auto-scaling

• Maintain and stay ahead of resource dependencies, particularly database (RDS, ElastiCache/Redis), including updates, playbooks, downtime planning

• Project costs and implement AWS cost savings programs and reserved instances

• Work alongside our risk and security teams to ensure ongoing SOC-2 and cybersecurity compliances

• Extensive collaboration with app developers on shared metrics, database performance, load testing

• Extensive collaboration with data engineers on facilitating data warehouse development, ELT, ETL

• Participating in our agile development process: sprint planning, story grooming and stand ups

• Adherence to our SDLC and secure coding practises and environment

You bring:

• 5+ years infrastructure experience

• 2+ years AWS experience including certification and deployment of production applications

• Proficiency with IaC, specifically CloudFormation

• Experience with containerization (Docker, ECS, ECR)

• Experience analyzing and acting on performance issues using observability platforms (DataDog, NewRelic, OTel)

• Has the ability to build quick when we need to experiment and build clean when MVP becomes core functionality

• Has strong SQL and data analysis skills and an eagerness to dig into data as part of problem solving

Research shows that while men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of listed criteria, women and other marginalized folks tend to only apply when they check every box. Think you have what it takes, but not sure you check every box? Apply to the role anyways. We’d love to talk and determine together whether you could be a great fit!

Why you’ll love working at ZayZoon:

• Permanently Remote: Work from a desk, a coffee shop, or in the great outdoors - our jobs are fully remote, forever

• Flexible Time Off: Whether it's a longer vacation to explore new horizons, a series of short breaks for regular rejuvenation, or stepping away for a new level of mastery in a skillset – our “You-do-You” time off program caters to the diverse and evolving lifestyles of our team with a maximum of 6 weeks vacation

• Instant Benefits: All full-time employees get access to medical, vision, and dental benefits from their very first day including increased mental health coverage and a wellness stipend

• Plus: Inclusive parental leave top-up, earned wage access, real time market data for salaries, a supportive culture for lifelong learners and more

What you can expect from us:

Every application will be reviewed by our team - we're committed to giving each application the attention it deserves because we know how important this step is for you. We want to make sure you're always in the loop and will respond to every application.

So go ahead and hit that apply button with confidence, knowing that we’re here for you every step of the way! We can't wait to hear from you.

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