FIRST CENTURY BANK, N.A.

Sr. Systems DevOps IT Engineer – First Century Bank

First Century Bank is looking for a full-time Sr. Systems DevOps IT Engineer to join a growing team from our Commerce, Georgia location. First Century Bank has distinguished itself by providing specialized financial services through technology channels for our clients. This role is fast-paced and will have a direct impact on the Bank’s ability to deliver our technology-enabled fintech programs and products. This is a hybrid role combining DevOps engineering (60%), application / database engineering (25%), and systems administration (15%) for FCB’s Windows- and .NET-centric FinTech environment. As a senior engineer, this individual will also provide technical leadership, project ownership, and mentoring to junior DevOps engineers while driving strategic automation and platform improvements.

Primary Responsibilities (60% - DevOps & Platform Engineering)

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for C#/.NET, web, and database projects using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Implement and enforce Git-based workflows: branching strategies, pull requests, peer review standards, and release processes.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, ARM/Bicep, and PowerShell DSC to provision and standardize Windows, IIS, and Azure resources.
• Automate operational workflows and integration processes using PowerShell, C# tooling, Azure Functions, and scheduled automation frameworks.
• Build and maintain deployment automation for .NET apps, IIS sites, Azure App Services, Window Services, and SQL database changes.
• Integrate automated testing pipelines, including Pester for PowerShell and CI-driven validation for .NET and SQL artifacts.
• Lead end-to-end monitoring, alerting, and observability initiatives using Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus/Grafana, or equivalent.
• Serve as a technical escalation point during incident response, guiding troubleshooting efforts and conducting root-cause analysis and corrective action reports.
• Ensure security, compliance (SOX, PCI), and audit-readiness across all DevOps processes, pipelines, and infrastructure components.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with software engineers, business analysts, and IT stakeholders to ensure platform reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Provide technical leadership, helping establish engineering best practices, coding standards, IaC patterns, and DevOps maturity improvements.
• Mentor and support junior DevOps engineers, providing guidance in scripting, automation, CICD pipelines, Azure, SQL, and system troubleshooting.

Application & Database Engineering (25% - SQL Development & DBA)

• Manage SQL Server 2019/2022 environments across production, QA, and development.
• Implement and maintain Always On Availability Groups and HA/DR strategies.
• Perform SQL development, including stored procedures, ETL logic, complex T-SQL, and schema design.
• Optimize query and index performance; analyze execution plans; refine database workloads.
• Support database release automation, including DACPAC pipelines, migration scripts, and CI-driven SQL validation.
• Develop and maintain high-quality database documentation, runbooks, and operational standards.
• Work with development teams to design efficient data models and integration patterns for high-volume FinTech workloads.

Systems Administration (15% - Windows & Infrastructure)

• Maintain and support Windows Server and IIS infrastructure; Linux experience is a plus.
• Manage Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, certificates, and authentication/authorization systems
• Implement patching, configuration baselines, and security hardening for Windows servers and SQL Server instances.
• Provide expertise during capacity planning, scaling initiatives, infrastructure modernization efforts, and cloud migrations.
• Participate in cross-team initiatives and special projects providing senior-level guidance and architectural insight.

Leadership & Senior-Level Expectations

• Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives, manage priorities, and deliver complex automation or infrastructure projects.
• Ownership of assigned projects from requirements gathering through implementation, documentation, and post-launch support.
• Ability to mentor, train, and support junior DevOps engineers and influence team engineering culture.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Track record of introducing process improvements, DevOps best practices, and operational efficiencies.

Qualifications, Skills and Certifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or equivalent experience.
• ·7-10 years of relevant DevOps/Systems/Database experience, ideally in a regulated or enterprise environment.
• Expert-level experience with PowerShell scripting and automation, including advanced modules, APIs and DSC.
• Hands-on experience with C#/.NET build and deployment workflows.
• Strong SQL Server administration and T-SQL development experience.
• Proficiency with Git, GitHub, Azure Repos, and modern branching/peer review workflows.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Azure or AWS infrastructure experience (Azure strongly preferred.
• Experience with containers (Docker/Kubernetes, monitoring systems, and cloud networking/security fundamentals.

Preferred Technical Skills:

• Advanced PowerShell: DSC, Pester, dbatools.
• IIS management and tuning.
• Experience with API integrations, REST, and web service automation.
• Experience supporting web development (HTML/CSS/JS fundamentals, build workflows).

Preferred Certifications (any of the following):

Azure certifications:

o AZ-104 (Azure Administrator)

o AZ-204 (Azure Developer)

o AZ-305 (Azure Architect)

o AZ-400 (DevOps Engineer Expert)

o DP-300 (Azure Database Administrator)

Microsoft certifications:

o SC-100 / SC-200 (Security)

o Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert

o Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator

· AWS equivalents (SysOps, Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer)

· DevOps, cloud, or automation-related certifications such as:

o HashiCorp Terraform Associate

o Linux Foundation Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

o ITIL Foundation or service management certifications

Bonus Qualifications:

• Experience in FinTech, banking, or other highly regulated environments.
• Experience leading technical teams or mentoring engineers.
• Demonstrated experience modernizing legacy processes or driving DevOps transformation efforts.

First Century Bank is an equal opportunity employer. It is the Company's policy to provide equal employment opportunity to all qualified persons without regard to race, color, sex, gender or gender identification, religious creed or religious beliefs, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, military or veteran's status, marital status, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by state or federal law.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $100,000.00 - $120,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Employee discount
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Professional development assistance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Application Question(s):

• What is your expected salary?

Experience:

• AWS CloudFormation: 5 years (Preferred)
• Web development: 5 years (Preferred)
• Windows server administration (2019 or later): 5 years (Preferred)
• Azure: 5 years (Preferred)

Ability to Commute:

• Commerce, GA 30529 (Required)

Work Location: In person