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Fidelity Investments

21d ago

  • Job
    Full-time
    Senior Level
  • Software Engineering
    IT & Cybersecurity
  • Galway

AI generated summary

  • You need 5+ years in AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, CI/CD with Jenkins, monitoring tools, and IaC (Terraform). Strong communication, leadership, and Python skills are a must.
  • You will design and implement scalable AWS microservices, lead SRE teams, mentor on DevOps practices, champion automation, and collaborate across teams to enhance infrastructure and deployments.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience with AWS in a production environment
  • Experience building and deploying Docker images
  • Experience migrating applications from other container orchestration solutions (such as ECS) to Kubernetes preferably on EKS
  • Production experience running Kubernetes workloads ideally on AWS EKS
  • Experience managing and maintaining Kubernetes Clusters on AWS EKS
  • Experience with Confluent or Kafka
  • Experience creating and deploying Helm charts & libraries
  • Hands-on experience with Jenkins Core, including authoring and maintaining declarative CI/CD pipelines and libraries
  • Experience with monitoring tools e.g., CloudWatch, Datadog & Splunk Cloud
  • Proficiency with UNIX operating systems and shell scripting
  • Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), having managed services and applications in a large AWS cross-account environment using IAM and federated SSO
  • Experience crafting and maintaining logging, monitoring, and alerting capabilities using tools like Datadog and Splunk
  • Ability to communicate at all levels with track record of strong written and verbal communications
  • See problems as opportunities to automate
  • Ability to work independently with minimal direction
  • Drive and champion the overall design of highly available, secure, scalable microservices-based applications in AWS
  • Track record of providing technical leadership to strong teams of Site Reliability Engineers / Cloud Engineers
  • Experience with configuring and deploying resilient infrastructure in multiple regions and multiple availability zones
  • Work multi-functionally with other organizations and collaborate with our risk, product and engineering team leaders
  • Leading the initiative to craft and deploy our applications to the cloud
  • Promoting a DevOps mentality, providing mentorship and establishing development standard methodologies for AWS infrastructure-as-code
  • Championing automation tools to improve software delivery and reduce risk
  • Production experience with infrastructure-as-code (IaC), Terraform preferred
  • Programming experience, e.g., Python preferred
  • Experience with distributed version control systems, Git preferred
  • Experience with Apache or Confluent Kafka a plus
  • Experience with the agile software development lifecycle and Kanban preferred
  • Experience with CDN Providers e.g., Akamai preferred

Responsibilities

  • As a principal member of the TechOps SRE team, you'll work closely with our engineering partners to help enable and drive initiatives from design to implementation.
  • Our highly available multi-region Kubernetes (AWS EKS) environments are best-in-class and central to our enterprise-grade infrastructure strategy.
  • These growing environments currently support numerous mission-critical workloads.
  • In this exciting role, you’ll have the opportunity to further develop and refine your skills, collaborate across numerous Fidelity teams, and continue to grow in a fun, collaborative, and rapidly changing environment.
  • This is a phenomenal opportunity to have a direct impact on the emerging strategies of our infrastructure and deployments, while at the same time, helping enable the expansion of our business.
  • Drive and champion the overall design of highly available, secure, scalable microservices-based applications in AWS.
  • Track record of providing technical leadership to strong teams of Site Reliability Engineers / Cloud Engineers.
  • Experience with configuring and deploying resilient infrastructure in multiple regions and multiple availability zones.
  • Work multi-functionally with other organizations and collaborate with our risk, product and engineering team leaders.
  • Leading the initiative to craft and deploy our applications to the cloud.
  • Promoting a DevOps mentality, providing mentorship and establishing development standard methodologies for AWS infrastructure-as-code.
  • Championing automation tools to improve software delivery and reduce risk.
  • Production experience with infrastructure-as-code (IaC), Terraform preferred.
  • Experience with distributed version control systems, Git preferred.
  • Experience with Apache or Confluent Kafka a plus.
  • Experience with the agile software development lifecycle and Kanban preferred.
  • Experience with CDN Providers e.g., Akamai preferred.

FAQs

What is the primary focus of the Principal TechOps Engineer role?

The primary focus is to work closely with engineering partners to enable and drive initiatives from design to implementation in a highly available multi-region Kubernetes environment.

What experience is required with AWS for this position?

The role requires 5+ years of hands-on experience with AWS in a production environment.

Is experience with Kubernetes necessary for this job?

Yes, production experience running Kubernetes workloads, ideally on AWS EKS, is necessary.

What types of applications should the candidate have experience migrating?

Candidates should have experience migrating applications from other container orchestration solutions, such as ECS, to Kubernetes, preferably on EKS.

Are employees expected to have experience with CI/CD tools?

Yes, hands-on experience with Jenkins Core, including authoring and maintaining declarative CI/CD pipelines, is required.

What scripting and programming knowledge is beneficial for this position?

Proficiency with UNIX operating systems and shell scripting is required. Additionally, programming experience in Python is preferred.

What type of team culture is promoted within Fidelity Digital Assets?

Fidelity Digital Assets embraces an entrepreneurial culture and startup mindset, focusing on innovation and agility.

What is the focus of the Technical Operations team within Fidelity Digital Assets?

The Technical Operations team focuses on moving to the cloud, securing networks, and scaling applications to ensure uptime and reliability.

Can the Principal TechOps Engineer work independently?

Yes, the role requires the ability to work independently with minimal direction.

Is there an emphasis on automation in this role?

Yes, the role emphasizes the ability to see problems as opportunities to automate and championing automation tools to improve software delivery and reduce risk.

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Fidelity Investments

Finance
Industry
10,001+
Employees
1946
Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

At Fidelity, our goal is to make financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want. We do this by focusing on a diverse set of customers: - from 23 million people investing their life savings, to 20,000 businesses managing their employee benefits to 10,000 advisors needing innovative technology to invest their clients’ money. We offer investment management, retirement planning, portfolio guidance, brokerage, and many other financial products. Privately held for nearly 70 years, we’ve always believed by providing investors with access to the information and expertise, we can help them achieve better results. That’s been our approach- innovative yet personal, compassionate yet responsible, grounded by a tireless work ethic—it is the heart of the Fidelity way.

Benefits

  • Commuter benefit program

  • Dependent care flexible spending (FSA)

  • Mental health resources

  • Discount programs for employees

  • Maternity & parental leave

  • On-site health & wellness centers