Public Cloud - DevOps Engineer - VP

Our client operates in the Financial sector, with its headquarters rooted strongly in the United States. It has its branches spread to more than 160 countries, providing employment to more than 200k people all over the world. They fall in the Top 15 largest Banks in the United States. Its core business is to provide various Banking and Financial services to its clients. It is known to have one of the biggest balance sheet banks in the world (among others) aiding it to offer 360-degree financial services to its clients.

Role Description:

• Technology team is growing at lightning speed, and we’re looking for talented technologists to help build the future of global banking. 
• Our teams are creating innovations used across the globe – we’re changing the way people bank and how the world does business. 
• Technology team supports business operations in 100+ countries, across multiple lines of business spanning both Institutional and retail businesses.
• The group works to optimize the IT environment by standardizing production platforms, reducing complexity, and introducing innovative solutions that provide new business capabilities, reduce total cost of ownership, and create a competitive advantage
• Join an environment with a laser focus on growth and progress, and take your career to the next level through the power of unmatched globality and vast expertise.
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• As one of the world’s most global banks, our client gives you the tools to be a trailblazer. 
• We’re not just building technology, we’re building the future of banking. 
• With thousands of employees located around the globe, we are an international team encompassing a broad range of teams, roles, and cultures, and we invite you to come and join us!

• Creative
• Analytical
• Collaborative
• Productive
• Adaptable
• Relationship Expertise
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Responsibilities:

• Designs builds, and maintains a stable and efficient infrastructure to optimize service delivery across Production, QA, and Dev environments. 
• Monitoring, troubleshooting, and continuous integration, packaging, and deployment of code. 
• Implements automated infrastructure capabilities like backups, security tools, monitoring, creating, and standardizing Infrastructure as Code.
• Creating automation templates, standards and out-of-the-box tools to create a consistent DevOps approach to improve all phases of the process and ensure end-to-end quality across functions. 
• Will be responsible for monitoring server and application performance using one or more Application Performance Monitoring tools: New Relic, Dynatrace, App dynamics.
• Will be responsible for CI/CD pipeline build, improvement, and management.
• Design, build, and deliver cloud computing solutions, hosted services, and underlying software infrastructure.
• Take full ownership of the DevOps discipline and be responsible for managing all server/infrastructure-related issues.
• Work with engineers on the design, deployment and continuous improvement of important infrastructure services (i.e., logging, monitoring and alerting).
• Support and troubleshoot scalability, high availability, performance, monitoring, backup and restores of different environments.
• Support and troubleshoot product and infrastructure issues in production environments.
• Evaluate new tools, technologies, and processes to improve speed, efficiency, and scalability of websites continuous integration environments.
• Configuration, optimization, documentation, and support of the infrastructure components of application’s which are hosted in cloud services such as AWS, Azure.
• Implement and support Real User Monitoring solutions as part of our overall APM strategy.
• Partner closely with software development teams using a strong dev-ops mindset.
• Measure the effectiveness of processes and procedures to ensure results are being achieved, looking across process, people, and training to identify areas for improvement.
• Coach and motivate staff to extraordinary performance, addressing performance issues in a timely manner.
• Oversee training of new and existing staff and fosters teamwork to help them meet and/or exceed performance goals.
• Demonstrate willingness to do whatever it takes to meet changing departmental and customer needs. 
• Foster responsibility and accountability within all aspects of the department.
• Other duties as assigned by management.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field from an accredited college, and 8+ years of related experience.
• Must exhibit a high-level end-to-end understanding of application design, construction, testing, deployment, and delivery.
• Experience working with deployment/configuration management tools like Atlassian Bitbucket Pipelines, Bamboo, Jenkins, Maven, Puppet, PaciCorp Terraform, or Ansible is required. Utilizes version control tools like GIT, Bitbucket and AWS Code Deploy. 
• Strong Program/Project and People management experience.
• Experienced with core cloud infrastructure especially AWS, GCP, Azure. 
• Knowledge of auto-scaling, self-updating, self-repairing, including managing change control and configuration management. 
• Knowledge of core network infrastructure, database, cloud and data center operations. 
• Strong knowledge of Linux and/or Windows OS. 
• Experience with programming and scripting with languages like Python, Perl, Bash, PHP, Java, SQL, or C#.
• Should have familiarity with Relational database and NoSQL database.
• Should be able to investigate & perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) on users reported issues and suggest workarounds before implementing the permanent fix.
• Ability to work independently, prioritizes existing projects, and proactively determine areas requiring additional attention, monitoring, or maintenance.
• Experience in the financial industry is a plus.
• Ability to multi-task effectively without compromising the quality of the work.
• Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to communicate results through various media, both visually and orally, is critical.
• Ability to work in both Agile or Waterfall software development environments.
• Passion for building DevOps solutions with state-of-the-art technology.