Platform Automation Engineer
NinjaHoldings · Chicago, IL
About this role
**Platform Automation Engineer** Founded in 2017, NinjaHoldings works to give everyday Americans better access to financial services than traditional institutions typically provide. Through our CreditNinja and NinjaCard brands, we offer digital banking and lending products designed for consumers often overlooked, paired with incentives that support long-term financial improvement. Our Edge brand extends this expertise to other companies, providing underwriting, fraud detection, and analytics services. Headquartered in Chicago with a distributed global workforce, we’re a lean, growing organization committed to advancing consumer finance in the US. --- ## Job Summary Platform Engineers in this role are part of the Operations department and will focus on the design, development, and automation of our cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. You’ll work closely with the Software and Risk Engineering teams across our brands to streamline environments and deployment processes. Successful candidates are highly motivated self-starters with a proven track record of using modern technology and software engineering practices to design and deploy robust, cloud-native solutions at scale. --- ## Key Responsibilities - Develop and maintain automation for managing scalable, highly available, fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure - Automate infrastructure lifecycle management (upgrades, dependency management, security patching, and vulnerability remediation) - Identify and eliminate repetitive manual processes through automation to improve operational efficiency, consistency, and reliability - Collaborate with engineering and business teams to improve platform capabilities, enable emerging technologies, and document technical solutions --- ## Ideal Candidate Will Have - 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 (IaC) - Experience with container-based architectures using Kubernetes - Fluency in Linux-based environments and network engineering - Demonstrated excellence in multiple programming languages - Strong analytical, written, and verbal communication skills --- ## Additional Pluses - Experience setting up modern 3-tier web application platforms on AWS - Experience with Ruby, Python, Terraform, GitHub Actions and/or Kubeflow - Experience with multiple SQL and NoSQL database technology stacks - Interest in AI technologies and experience supporting or enabling their adoption across engineering and business teams - Strong understanding of modern web application development practices - Passion for security, observability, and failover --- ## Benefits & Perks - Flexible Paid Time Off - Health Benefits with generous medical, dental, and vision insurance plans - 401(k) with matching contribution - Paid Family Leave - Annual Wellness & WFH Subsidies - Employee Referral Program - Remote-first culture with a convenient downtown office in the heart of the city --- ## Important Notice (Email Safety) Please carefully review communications to ensure they are from the official Breezy applicant tracking platform (@breezy-mail.com) or an official NinjaHoldings brand email: @ninjaholdings.com, @creditninja.com, @ninjacard.com, or @edgescore.com. If you’ve been contacted from any
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