Principal Cloud Technologist - 2031319

Company: Fidelity Investments
Location: Durham, NC
Posted on: July 30, 2021

Job Description:

Architects, designs, builds, and support enterprise-level on-premise and public Cloud solutions. Designs and develops future state Enterprise Cloud Architectures and roadmaps, in line with multiple business unit partner. Builds container-based systems, using architecture, implementation, and management orchestration platforms -- Kubernetes and Rancher. Implements automated test suites and self-service capabilities for platforms to ensure efficient and successful application deployments, upgrades, releases, infrastructure re-hydration, and support. Builds logging and observability solutions for Cloud platforms in compliance with security and audit teams. Monitors and troubleshoots applications.

Primary Responsibilities:

Designs, builds, and maintains on and off-premise solutions allowing development teams to successfully host applications.

Delivers, utilizes, and supports Cloud technologies, using callable and resilient architectures.

Collaborates internally to define required IT management operational procedures as applications migrate to Cloud.

Works with the development community to gather requirements and adapt/improve on-premise solutions.

Confers with Systems Analysts, Software Engineers, and other Cloud Technologists to design systems and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, and performance requirements and interfaces.

Delivers business results and customer value by ensuring a stable, performant CaaS platform for application hosting.

Troubleshoots problems and difficulties within application hosting and onboarding.

Supports environments on an as-needed basis.

Develops new ways to monitor and resolve problems that ensure the stability of hosted applications.

Provides input on improving or automating existing processes.

Develops and oversees software system testing and validation procedures, programming, and documentation.

Participates in weekly on-call rotations and responds to incidents and critical customer requests.

Reviews existing capabilities, and simplifies and modernizes them to improve applications time to market.

Education and Experience:

Bachelors degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a closely related field and five (5) years of experience in the job offered or five (5) years of experience architecting and supporting Kubernetes platform services in hybrid Cloud environments.

Or, alternatively, Masters degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a closely related field and three (3) years of experience in the job offered or three (3) years of experience architecting and supporting Kubernetes platform services in hybrid Cloud environments.

Skills and Knowledge:

Candidate must also possess:

Demonstrated Expertise (DE) architecting, designing, and engineering public and private Cloud-based platforms built on Docker, Native Kubernetes, Rancher Kubernetes Services (RKS), and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS); assessing, reviewing, and developing new features on Kubernetes platforms by obtaining and assessing business requirements from large scale business units; and designing and executing migration strategies for applications from legacy platforms to on-premise and Public Kubernetes clusters at the enterprise-level.

DE creating Kubernetes orchestration solutions designed to automate deploy, scale, and operate containerized micro-service applications, using Docker, Kubernetes, and Rancher; building, deploying, and managing Rancher 1.x and 2.x Kubernetes Clusters; performing Kubernetes Clusters and underlying infrastructure re-hydrations, using Docker, Kubernetes, and Rancher; and implementing enterprise level Kubernetes logging and observability solutions, using FluentD, Fluentbit, Kafka, Datadog, Splunk, and ELK Elastic Search.

DE automating Rancher 1.6 and 2.x Kubernetes Cluster buildouts, upgrades, and bug fixes in development, non-production, and production environments, using Shell/Bash, Python, Jenkins, and UDeploy; creating, updating, and deleting application load balancers, using AVI and F5 APIs; implementing self-service Kubernetes upgrades; building pipelines to develop, deploy, and support Kubernetes Cloud platform applications, using Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools and scripting languages -- Jenkins, Git Stash, IBM Urban Code Deploy, Bash, Python, and Go Lang.

DE deploying, updating, and maintaining monitoring solutions for on-premise and public Cloud environments, using Instana, Datadog, Prometheus, and Kube State Metrics; performing incident and change managements using Service Now; implementing and managing uninterrupted application upgrades, bug fixes, and patches; and managing end-to-end documentation of future application support processes through design to delivery, using Microsoft OneNote, Confluence, and Share Point.

For full job details and to apply, please visit https://jobs.fidelity.com/ and search for job number: 2031319.

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