Principal Digital Assets Engineer

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Job Description:

Position

Description:

Designs highly available, secure, scalable multi-region microservices-based solutions in Amazon Web Services (AWS). Builds secure/hardened multi-layer Linux-based Docker images supporting engineering partner needs. On-boards containerized applications and resources to Kubernetes using custom-built Helm Charts and libraries. Maintains production and non-production Kubernetes Clusters on AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Provides technical leadership to teams and production on-call support for EKS workloads. Promotes a Dev Ops mentality, provides mentorship, and establishes development standard methodologies for AWS Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

Assists engineering partners with on-boarding of new Kafka/Confluent solutions. Crafts and deploys applications to the cloud using Jenkins pipelines and automation. Troubleshoots Linux-based operating systems issues efficiently. Develops Python scripts, tools, and utilities using latest techniques and best-practices.

Primary Responsibilities:

Participates in architecture design teams; works closely with engineering partners to help enable and drive initiatives from design to implementation. Develops observability solutions -- dashboards, alerts, and synthetics. Develops comprehensive documentation for multiple applications or subsystems. Responsible for meeting project goals on-time and on-budget. Advises on risk assessment and risk management strategies for projects. Plans and coordinates project schedules and assignments for multiple projects.

Acts as a primary liaison for business unit product area(s) to resolve various project/technology issues. Provides technology solutions to daily issues and technical evaluation estimates on technology initiatives. Mentors junior team members. Develops original and creative technical solutions to on-going development efforts. Communicates complex subject-matter clearly and with various audiences.

Education and Experience:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and five (5) years of experience as a Principal Digital Assets Engineer (or closely related occupation) designing, developing, and maintaining scalable infrastructure solutions using Amazon EKS, AWS Cloud Services, and Terraform (IaC) within a financial services industry. Or, alternatively, Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and three (3) years of experience as a Principal Digital Assets Engineer (or closely related occupation) designing, developing, and maintaining scalable infrastructure solutions using Amazon EKS, AWS Cloud Services, and Terraform (IaC) within a financial services industry.

Skills and Knowledge:
Candidate must also possess:
Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) designing, implementing, and supporting highly available multi-region Kubernetes clusters for mission-critical financial systems on Amazon EKS; deploying applications and upgrades to clusters using Helm and Jenkins Core Continuous Delivery (CD) pipelines; and integrating Datadog logging, Datadog synthetics, and Datadog dashboards, to preempt or surface issues to on-call. DE designing, implementing, and automating deployment of advanced multi-region EKS-based cloud solutions on AWS;

performing cluster upgrades of production systems to maintain production systems with zero downtime using Terraform; configuring and maintaining Aurora Postgres clusters in multi-region cloud deployments using Terraform; and troubleshooting, networking, and…