Platform Automation Engineer
NinjaHoldings6 hours ago
Remote, United States or Chicago, IL, USAMid Level
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain automation for scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure.
- Automate infrastructure lifecycle management, including upgrades, dependency management, security patching, and vulnerability remediation.
- Eliminate repetitive manual processes to improve operational efficiency, consistency, and reliability.
- Collaborate with engineering and business teams to improve platform capabilities, enable emerging technologies, and document technical solutions.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of technical experience in an engineering organization.
- Extensive experience building highly available, fault-tolerant cloud-based systems.
- Strong understanding of distributed system design and development.
- Experience implementing automated CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, and infrastructure as code.
- Experience with container-based architectures using Kubernetes.
- Fluency in Linux-based environments and network engineering.
- Demonstrated proficiency in multiple programming languages.
- Strong analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Preferred experience includes AWS, Ruby, Python, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Kubeflow, SQL and NoSQL databases, modern web application platforms, observability, security, and failover.
Benefits
- Flexible paid time off.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance plans.
- 401(k) with matching contribution.
- Paid family leave.
- Annual wellness and work-from-home subsidies.
- Employee referral program.
- Remote-first culture with a convenient downtown office in Chicago.
About NinjaHoldings
NinjaHoldings builds digital banking and consumer lending products for Americans who struggle to access traditional credit, offered through its CreditNinja and NinjaCard brands. The company also sells B2B services under its EDGE brand, providing underwriting, fraud detection, and customer analytics to other firms. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Chicago, it operates as a privately held fintech focused on U.S. consumer finance.