It currently takes the same amount of time to process an average American mortgage as it does to walk nonstop from Manhattan to San Francisco! Xpanse is working to change that. 

It’s our mission to create a universal platform that brings clarity, ease, automation and security to the origination process. Our SaaS platform will power the mortgage industry and its relationships with a massive network of third-party providers that are integral to the mortgage process. By focusing on the customer, using automation, real-time intelligence, big data, and analytics we are changing the way borrowers, lenders, servicers, and service providers take care of business. 
Disrupting an industry is a team sport, so we are looking for the best and brightest to make an impact and change the future of an $11 trillion industry. We are growing rapidly and looking for a Principal Cloud Infrastructure Architect to join our team.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

In support of Xpanse's production infrastructure, you will:

• Provide ongoing support of the existing production, DevOPS and disaster recovery infrastructure.
• Ensure the design, development and deployment of the production and DevOPS infrastructure follow industry best practices.
• Respond to escalations from junior engineers and take corrective action to ensure high availability of our production and DevOPS environments.
• Responsible for Setting up and supporting the multiple cloud-based environments.
• Provide input and directly participate in critical technology architecture design decisions that enhance the overall effectiveness and performance of the production infrastructure and enterprise IT infrastructure.
• Work in coordination with other internal teams (i.e., developers, product managers) to ensure the infrastructure fully and effectively supports current and planned application systems.

WHO YOU ARE

• You have 5-8 years' experience working in a Cloud IT environment, preferably in an AWS based environment.
• You have worked on a team assisting in the creation, building and support of infrastructure solutions for all phases of a custom software systems development life cycle (SDLC).
• You have experience working with infrastructure as code.
• You have experience working with a Kubernetes environment.
• You have excellent verbal, written, and diagram communication skills.
• You are articulate in communicating concepts and can communicate complex technology solutions to non-technical audiences when necessary. You place a premium on customer satisfaction.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLS

• Working knowledge of AWS with experience building a high availability infrastructure.
• Heavy automation experience that adheres to software development disciplines with strong knowledge of Terraform and Ansible. A desire to "automate everything" is the right attitude.
• Possess a thorough understanding of Internet based technologies (DNS, Security, IP Routing, SSH, FTP, HTTP/HTTPS, Email Routing, etc.).
• A platform-agnostic understanding of web traffic management, including CDNs, Load Balancing, and SSL certificate management.
• In conjunction with a desire to "automate everything", the perfect candidate has a desire to "document everything".
• Collaborative, team focus with experience working in a 24x7 uptime environment.
• Comfortable with collaboration, open communications and reaching across different production teams.
• Solid understanding of IP network technologies and software tools for performance monitoring and troubleshooting (Datadog and Cloud Watch are a plus.).

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Knowledge of IAM management and best practices in AWS are a plus.
• Experience with Helm preferred, but not required.
• A bachelor’s degree in computer science or related discipline is a plus.
  

Xpanse is an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.  

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