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Position is bonus eligible
Prestigious Financial Company is currently seeking a Principal Technology Platform Engineer. Candidate will be a senior member of the team, and be responsible for collaborating with stakeholders, partner teams, and solutions architects to research and engineer available technologies as part of a comprehensive requirements-driven solution design. Candidate will be developing technology engineering requirements and leading proof-of-concept and laboratory testing efforts using modern approaches to process and automation.
Responsibilities:
- Key contributor to technology platform design, testing, and implementation process to introduce new technology and improve existing technology initiatives for hybrid cloud and on-premises infrastructure within the Data Centers.
- Define and implement testing and success criteria for platforms, products, and technologies to ensure alignment with business, security, and architecture objectives.
- Lead and participate in exploratory proof-of-concept engagements and technology stress testing to determine solution feasibility and stability.
- Collaborate with various partner teams across technology, security, and business to provide technical consultation as part of projects and daily business activities.
- Create technical knowledge and guideline documentation for new and existing technologies to assist partner teams with knowledge transfer for execution and operations.
- Develop and maintain scalable DevSecOps pipelines, including CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and automated security scanning.
- No direct supervision, but candidate will provide mentorship to members of the team.
Qualifications:
- Excellent oral and written communication.
- Ability to think strategically and map architectural decisions/recommendations to business needs
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively with local and remote employees, vendors, and consultants.
- Must possess critical values, including (but not limited to) collaboration, credibility, trust, adaptability and commitment to do the right thing.
- Proven track record of collaborating cross-functionally and delivering impactful technical solutions.
Technical Skills:
- Experience developing CI/CD workflows using tools like Github Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps Pipelines, AWS CodePipeline, etc
- Familiarity with GitOps driven deployment tooling with solutions using tools like ArgoCD, FluxCD, etc
- In-depth knowledge of Observability and enterprise-level monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions through tools like Prometheus, Elasticsearch, Grafana, etc
- Experience with Cloud native technologies such as Kubernetes, ECS or Azure Container instances.
- Understanding of enterprise-grade networking technologies, including routers, switches, firewalls and load balancers.
- Knowledge of network security protocols and certificate-based authentication
- Deeply experienced with infrastructure as code, like Terraform, OpenTofu or Pulumi
- Experience working with authentication protocols and suites ( LDAP, Kerberos, SAML, etc.), multi-factor authentication and password-less platforms and technologies, role-based access control and entitlements, etc.
- Solid understanding of common database technologies on-premises and in the cloud (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, MSSQL, etc ), data field hardening and encryption, access controls, high-availability, etc.
- Understanding of governance frameworks and standards such as COBIT, NIST CSF are a plus.
- Experience with regulatory frameworks such as Reg SCI and CFTC 99.18 are a plus.
- Education and/or Experience:
- Preferred 10+ years of progressive experience as a senior/lead engineer in a DevOps, SRE or infrastructure-focused role
- Required Deep expertise in cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, etc.) and infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform, Ansible, etc.
- Required Strong background in designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, with experience integration security testing and compliance
- Required Proficient in Scripting and programing languages such as Python, Bash or Go
- Required Understanding of traditional on-premises data center technologies and hybrid cloud architecture
- Preferred Bachelor's degree or higher in a technical field