Staff Engineer DevOps
Western Union

Staff Engineer DevOps - San Francisco, California

Are you looking to build a career in the financial services sector as part of our Payments platform team? Are you ready to unleash your potential in a global business that is committed to moving money for better? Join Western Union as Staff Engineer DevOps.

Motivated by our values: purpose driven, globally minded, and trustworthy & respectful

We're a FinTech that's using insight from customers and colleagues worldwide to improve financial services for families, small businesses, multinational corporations, and non-profit organizations. We're a team of over 10,000 people spanning 200 countries and territories. We believe when money moves, better things happen.

Better requires process discipline and simplification

In this role, you will be responsible to plan, design, implement and maintenance for deployment of enterprise-wide cloud-based and on-prem payment platform. You will have a working knowledge of cloud and other architecture disciplines including application, database, and infrastructure. In this role you will work with engineering, cloud-ops and enterprise architecture team to define and build out complex solutions driving value through business process simplification, automation and new product capabilities and innovations. In addition, support a research and development function within your team to explore new and innovative technology solutions, provide engineering studies and make recommendation to enhance Cloud platform.

For this role, you will have a Bachelor's in Engineering or a Bachelor's in technology and a Master's in Computer Application, Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields with 6+ years of industry experience including 4+ years of DevOps experience on public cloud such as AWS or Google. You will have experience with Infrastructure design concepts, capacity planning and strong cloud knowhow and the ability to communicate and evangelize those concepts to internal stakeholders and external partners. You will have strong experience in designing and managing the release pipeline in cloud and on-prem and experience with hybrid enterprise platform. You will have strong experience with DevOps tools such as Jenkins, Ansible, Fargate, Docker, Kubernetes and drive continuous process improvements. You will have an excellent understanding of computer science fundamentals, API, GIT flows, microservices architecture as well as hands-on experience in JAVA/J2EE technologies, XML, Web Services, authentication, and certificate management. You will have experience with SAFe Agile framework methodologies knowledge with Test Driven Development (TDD) and CI (Continuous Integration)/CD (Continuous Delivery) and maintaining high availability production and non-prod systems

Join us, and let's connect the world

Western Union is transforming its business and shaping the financial services sector by driving quality, convenience, and customer service to new levels of excellence. It's an exciting time for our organization, as the largest cross-border money transfer operator, trusted by millions of consumers around the world. If you're ready to unleash your potential to help drive change through bottom-up innovation, apply now.

We're a company on the move, and we want our people to grow and develop. You'll have plenty of opportunities to learn new skills and build a career, as well as a great salary and benefits package.

We are passionate about our diversity. Our commitment is to provide an inclusive culture that celebrates the unique backgrounds and perspectives of our global teams, while reflecting the communities we serve. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, political affiliation, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, or veteran (U.S.) status. The company will provide accommodation to applicants, including those with disabilities, during the recruitment process, in accordance with applicable laws.

Annual base salary gross:  $104,938.00 - $184,620.00. The base salary range represents the anticipated low and high end of the Western Union salary range for this position. Actual salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and proficiency for the role. The base salary is one component of Western Union's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards and benefits include short term incentives, health insurance (several options to choose from), accident and life insurance, access to the best in class learning and development platforms, to name just a few! To view more details of our benefits, visit us here: https://2020-2021.mywubenefits.com In addition to the annual salary, this role is also eligible to receive an annual bonus.