Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer - Denver, Colorado

Are you ready to unleash your potential in a global business that is committed to making financial services accessible to people everywhere?

Western Union powers your pursuit.

Role Responsibilities

Utilize industry standard DevOps tools, automation, CI/CD tools including Jenkins, Spinnaker, ArgoCD, GitOps driven deployments, Artifacts management including Jfrog, and integration with security tools. Perform deployment strategies such as blue/green and Canary. Create application deployment pipeline utilizing Helm, Kubernetes, or ECS Fargate. Decompose business requirements into technical goals using best practices. Troubleshoot container issues, inspect any connectivity and performance improvement measures utilizing RestAPI, Groovy, Python, Json and Yaml to parse large data. Work with automation tools including Ansible, Kubernetes, Chef, and Puppet. Perform cloud engineering. Integrate security best practices with automated and codified architectural patterns in the Cloud. Perform Automated Agile delivery. Telecommuting permitted up to 2 days per week. When not telecommuting, must report to Western Union, LLC, 7001 E Belleview Ave., Denver, CO 80237. Salary: $144,290 to $183,300 per year.

Role Requirements

Bachelor's degree or U.S. equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems Engineering and Management, or a related field, plus 4 years of professional experience as a Software Developer, Systems Engineer, or any occupation/position/job title involving Information Technology and Information Services.

Must also have experience in the following:

• 
  

  4 years of professional experience performing Information Security

  
  
• 
  

  4 years of professional experience granting role-based access within applications and enforcing a least privilege model

  
  
• 
  

  4 years of professional experience securing, implementing, managing, and maintaining solutions with cloud provider environments (including AWS, GCP, OCI or Azure)

  
  
• 
  

  4 years of professional experience performing secure coding, scripting and automation

  
  
• 
  

  4 years of professional experience utilizing IT Audit lifecycle and frameworks

  
  
• 
  

  4 years of professional experience with multiple operating systems (including Linux and Windows) and various AWS hardening techniques (including Root User, Multi Factor Authentication (MFA), Private Subnets, NAT Gateways, Security Groups, Network Access Control Lists, Harden VPC Endpoints, S3 Cross Region Replication (CRR), and AWS Web Application Firewall)

  
  
• 
  

  4 years of professional experience implementing change control practices and building solutions in lab and development environments, and producing test cases

  
  
• 
  

  4 years of professional experience utilizing cloud computing concepts

  
  
• 
  

  2 years of professional experience utilizing cybersecurity techniques and principles, including forensics, threat hunting, penetration testing, threat intelligence, Federated Identity Management, and data loss prevention

  
  

Referral Bonus - $1,000 (Subject to Employee Referral Policy). Eligible to internal employees only.

We make financial services accessible to humans everywhere. Join us for what's next.

Western Union is positioned to become the world's most accessible financial services company - transforming lives and communities. We're a diverse and passionate customer-centric team of over 8,000 employees serving 200 countries and territories, reaching customers and receivers around the globe. More than moving money, we design easy-to-use products and services for our digital and physical financial ecosystem that help our customers move forward.

Just as we help our global customers prosper, we support our employees in achieving their professional

aspirations. You'll have plenty of opportunities to learn new skills and build a career, as well as receive a

great compensation package. If you're ready to help drive the future of financial services, it's time for Western Union. Learn more about our purpose and people at https://careers.westernunion.com/.

Salary

The base range is $144,290 to $183,300 per year. Actual salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and proficiency for the role. The base salary is one component of Western Union's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards and benefits include short term incentives, health insurance (several options to choose from), accident and life insurance, access to the best in class learning and development platforms, to name just a few! To view more details of our benefits, visit us here: https://mywubenefits.com/. In addition to the annual salary, this role is also eligible to receive an annual bonus.

Benefits

You will also have access to short-term incentives, multiple health insurance options, accident and life insurance, and access to best-in-class development platforms, to name a few (https://careers.westernunion.com/global-benefits/). Please see the below benefits specific to your location and note that your recruiter may share additional role-specific benefits during your interview process or in an offer of employment.

Western Union values in-person collaboration, learning, and ideation whenever possible. We believe this creates value through common ways of working and supports the execution of enterprise objectives which will ultimately help us achieve our strategic goals. By connecting face-to-face, we are better able to learn from our peers, problem-solve together, and innovate.

Our Hybrid Work Model categorizes each role into one of three categories. Western Union has determined the category of this role to be Hybrid. This is defined as a flexible working arrangement that enables employees to divide their time between working from home and working from an office location. The expectation is to work from the office a minimum of three days a week.

For residents of Colorado, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania: Please do not respond to any questions on this initial application that may seek age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You may also redact this information from any materials you submit during the application process. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.

Estimated Job Posting End Date:

10-25-2025

This application window is a good-faith estimate of the time that this posting will remain open. This posting will be promptly updated if the deadline is extended or the role is filled.