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Los Angeles, California, United States
Hybrid
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A Day in the Life
We’re looking for a Senior Staff DevOps Engineer to serve as a senior individual-contributor technical leader on our Platform Engineering & Operations team and scale the infrastructure underneath Lendistry’s lending platform. You’ll drive cloud architecture, security posture, and developer experience across a regulated financial services environment — setting technical direction and mentoring engineers so we can grow without compromising reliability or compliance.
Lendistry: Who We Are
We’re proud to be the nation’s largest minority-led, tech-savvy lender for small businesses and commercial real estate. As a certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) and Community Development Entity (CDE), our mission is all about creating economic opportunities and fueling growth for small business owners and their communities. Join us as we pave the way with innovative financing and financial education!
What You’ll Be Doing
Technical Leadership & Mentorship
Serve as a senior technical leader and hands-on individual contributor for the Platform Engineering & Operations team, without formal people-management responsibilities.
Mentor cloud and platform engineers, sharing expertise and raising the technical bar across the team.
Contribute to and help shape the technical strategy and roadmap for infrastructure and platform engineering.
Cloud Architecture & Infrastructure
Drive cloud architecture and account strategy across development, staging, and production environments for a regulated lending platform.
Drive adoption of infrastructure-as-code and GitOps practices across infrastructure operations.
Own container orchestration across multiple deployable services and cloud accounts.
Experience with CDN/edge/WAF platforms (e.g., Cloudflare, Akamai) for content delivery, DDoS protection, edge security, and traffic/performance optimization.
Security, Identity & Compliance
Own identity management, account-level security posture, secrets management, and KMS key strategy.
Partner with security and compliance teams on audits and vendor/security assessments for a regulated financial services platform.
Developer Experience & CI/CD
Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines across multiple repositories, from build through environment-gated production deployments.
Drive best-in-class developer experience and internal tooling for engineering teams.
Reliability & Incident Management
Contribute to on-call and incident-response practices, including postmortems, for a platform where downtime directly impacts loan funding and servicing.
AI-Native Platform Engineering
Evaluate and drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) across infrastructure workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and internal tooling to accelerate delivery.
Lead the integration of AI-driven observability and operations practices — anomaly detection, predictive alerting, and AI-assisted root-cause analysis — layered on top of existing monitoring stacks.
Own the infrastructure strategy for ML/AI-driven product features (e.g., underwriting and fraud models), including model serving, inference monitoring, and compute scaling for AI workloads.
Champion a builder's mindset toward internal developer platforms — self-service tooling and golden paths that let engineers ship safely without waiting on the platform team.
Your Areas of Knowledge and Expertise
Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
8+ years of experience engineering highly available, enterprise-grade software and platform applications.
5+ years of hands-on experience in platform engineering across various cloud computing models.
5+ years of hands-on experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, Docker, and cloud-native applications.
Substantial hands-on experience with public cloud platform services such as AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Hands-on coding experience in at least two programming languages (Java, JavaScript, Python, Go, or .NET/C#).
Experience with cloud-native application patterns and tools, microservices architectures, and application migrations to any cloud platform.
Strong understanding of infrastructure, virtualization, containers, networking, storage, and monitoring and logging/analytics tools (e.g., Splunk).
Experience with application performance management tools (Splunk, AppDynamics, New Relic, Dynatrace, etc.).
Deep expertise in continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) tools and processes (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Ansible).
Extensive experience with developer tools and open-source technologies.
Deep familiarity with MLOps/LLMOps concepts and the infrastructure needs of AI/ML workloads (GPU or accelerator provisioning, model serving, inference cost and latency management).
Extensive hands-on use of AI coding assistants and agentic developer tools in real engineering workflows, with the judgment to evaluate where they create leverage vs. risk.
Experience with policy-as-code (e.g., OPA, Kyverno) and software supply chain security practices (SBOM generation, artifact signing/provenance) as applied to CI/CD pipelines.
5+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), with extensive hands-on experience managing AWS production environments at scale.
Proven experience designing, implementing, and operating cloud platforms aligned with the AWS Well-Architected Framework, with a focus on security, reliability, operational excellence, performance efficiency, and cost optimization.
Strong hands-on expertise with AWS core services, including VPC, EC2, IAM, Route 53, CloudFront, S3, networking, security services, and container orchestration platforms such as Amazon EKS or ECS.
Experience implementing and managing infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform, AWS CDK, or AWS CloudFormation.
Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins.
Strong experience in cloud operations, including platform administration, production support, capacity planning, patching, maintenance, and operational excellence for mission-critical AWS environments.
Experience implementing comprehensive monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions using tools such as Amazon CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and New Relic to ensure platform health, performance, and availability.
Ability to serve as a key technical escalation point during production incidents, leading incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), post-incident reviews, and continuous operational improvements to minimize recurring issues.
Strong understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, including service reliability, SLAs/SLOs, incident management, change management, and operational readiness.
Strong understanding of cloud cost optimization strategies, including resource right-sizing, Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, storage lifecycle policies, and automation to improve operational efficiency and reduce cloud spend.
Hands-on experience implementing DevSecOps best practices, including automated security scanning, policy validation, compliance checks, secrets management, and vulnerability remediation within CI/CD pipelines.
Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering, security, operations, and platform teams.
Experience mentoring engineers and driving cloud engineering best practices across cross-functional teams is highly desirable.
Strong awareness of AI model governance and model-risk considerations (explainability, monitoring for drift/bias) in the context of AI-assisted decisioning within a regulated financial services environment.
Why You'll Love Working Here:
Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
Generous Paid Time Off
Birthday Day Off
12 Paid Company Holidays
401(k) Match
FSA and HSA
Paid Life Insurance
Paid Disability Insurance
Pet Insurance
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Professional Development Courses
In Office Provided Snacks and Drinks
Gym Facilities (LA & Tustin/CEC Offices)
In Office Engagement Activities
Compensation Range
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $179,300 - $209,100 annually.
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Physical Requirements
This is a stationary position that requires frequent sitting (approximately 95%), repetitive wrist motions, grasping, speaking, listening, close vision, and the ability to adjust focus. It also may require occasional standing, lifting, carrying of 20lbs or less, walking, kneeling, bending/stooping, twisting, pulling/pushing, and reaching above the shoulder. Employees in this position must be physically able to efficiently perform the essential functions of the position.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
B.S.D. Capital, Inc. dba Lendistry is an equal employment opportunity employer committed to providing its employees, applicants and other covered persons with equal opportunities without regard to race, color, age (40 or older), religious creed (including religious belief, practice or dress and grooming practices), national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth or medical condition related to pregnancy or childbirth), gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, military or veteran status (including past, current or prospective service), or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local law.
