Devops Engineer - United States

• *Job Description**
• *About Persistent**

We are an AI-led, platform-driven Digital Engineering and Enterprise Modernization partner, combining deep technical expertise and industry experience to help our clients anticipate what’s next. Our offerings and proven solutions create a unique competitive advantage for our clients by giving them the power to see beyond and rise above. We work with many industry-leading organizations across the world, including 20 Fortune 50 companies and 4 of the 5 top banks in both the US and India, and numerous innovators across the healthcare ecosystem.

Our disruptor’s mindset, commitment to client success, and agility to thrive in the dynamic environment have enabled us to sustain our growth momentum. Persistent has been recognized across top industry platforms for innovation, leadership, and inclusion. We have delivered 23 sequential quarters of growth with $422.5M in Q3 FY26 revenue, up 4.0% Q-o-Q and 17.3% Y-o-Y growth. Our 26,500+ global team members, located in 18 countries, have been instrumental in helping the market leaders transform their industries. We won the 2025 ISG Star of Excellence™ Award for AI and Data Excellence and were named a Leader in the Everest Group Talent Readiness for Next-generation Data, Analytics and AI Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025.

• *About Position:**

We’re looking for a seasoned DevOps Engineer with deep experience in banking and payments to join Payments & Liquidity Technology (GPLT), supporting the transformation of the high-value payments landscape as we modernize legacy wire platforms onto a new, event-driven, cloud-native architecture. This role sits at the intersection of engineering, service management, reliability and understanding the internal tooling ecosystem, the change management process, and the security requirements.

• **Role: DevOps Engineer**
• **Location: Charlotte, NC**
• **Experience: 10+ Years**
• **Job Type: Full Time Employment**
• *What You'll Do:**
• Embed Devops/SRE and production engineering principles into Payments Modernization from design through early life support
• Define and validate non-functional requirements (NFRs) covering resilience, scalability, observability, recovery, and operability
• Drive replay, retry, and exception-handling validation for event-driven payment flows
• Lead capacity and performance testing, including volume growth and peak event scenarios (e.g. FedNow, CHIPS, SWIF)
• Design and execute controlled failure testing (chaos engineering) to validate recovery patterns and blast radius
• Drive continuous service improvement (CSI) initiatives, including automation, resilience uplift, and technical debt reduction.
• *Expertise You'll Bring:**
• Minimum 10 years in DevOps or release automation roles within enterprise environments
• Python scripting for build and release automation: file processing, YAML/JSON/XML parsing, subprocess orchestration, regex-based routing logic
• CI/CD pipeline development and maintenance across one or more platforms: Jenkins (Groovy/Jenkins file), GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI, or Harness.
• Ansible Tower or AWX: playbook development, Jinja2 templating, survey design, role-based workflows
• JFrog Artifactory: artifact publishing, promotion workflows, environment-based folder structures
• Git proficiency beyond basic usage: branching strategies, cherry-picking, merge conflict resolution, LFS management
• Liquibase or equivalent database change management tooling (changelogs, changesets, context-based filtering)
• Experience building automation intended for handoff to teams with limited CI/CD background. Financial services experience is preferred but the right kind matters.
• *Benefits:**
• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Culture focused on talent development with quarterly growth opportunities and company-sponsored higher education and certifications
• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies
• Employee engagement initiatives such as project parties, flexible work hours, and Long Service awards
• Annual health check-ups
• Insurance coverage: group term life, personal accident, and Mediclaim hospitalization for self, spouse, two children, and parents
• *Values-Driven, People-Centric & Inclusive Work Environment:**

Persistent is dedicated to fostering diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We invite applications from all qualified individuals, including those with disabilities, and regardless of gender or gender preference. We welcome diverse candidates from all backgrounds.

• We support hybrid work and flexible hours to fit diverse lifestyles.
• Our office is accessibility-friendly, with ergonomic setups and assistive technologies to support employees with physical disabilities.
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