Principal Digital Assets Engineer

Location: Town of Texas

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 debugging systems using Linux (Debian, Alpine, and Ubuntu).
* DE performing automation, tooling, and integration functions to support SRE use-cases using Git, Python, Bash shell scripting, and boto3; and performing source-code management and review to resolve Git merge conflicts, execute the pull-request process, and implement secure-code practices using Git and secure-development tools.
* DE performing source-code development tasks to execute version control operations using Git command-line tools; performing coding in Python language using boto3 in a Linux-based environment; and performing bash shell scripting for automation of tasks in Linux environments.