Principal Cloud Technologist - 2031323

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

Job Description:

Develops, builds, and maintains Cloud and on-premises Kubernetes Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions. Develops and deploys Cloud applications. Ensures platform reliability of performant Cloud platforms for application hosting. Monitors, upgrades, and troubleshoots environments, and application hosting and onboarding issues. Delivers, utilizes, and supports Cloud technologies within large enterprise environments. Implements Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployments (CI/CD). Monitors and performs self-service maintenance automation pipelines. Performs independent and complex technical and functional analysis for multiple projects supporting divisional initiatives.

Primary Responsibilities:

Participates and designs modern scalable and resilient architecture Cloud platforms and enterprise applications.

Designs, automates, deploys, monitors, and supports Cloud application runtime platforms.

Confers with Systems Analysts and Software Engineer/Developers to design systems and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements, and interfaces.

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

Develops complex or multiple software applications and conducts studies of alternatives to translate divisional initiatives into business solutions.

Analyzes and recommends changes in project development policies, procedures, standards, and strategies to development experts and management.

Participates in architecture design teams and conducts POCs.

Defines and implements application level architecture.

Develops applications, components, and subsystems, and supports monitoring components of division-wide complex projects.

Recommends development testing tools and methodologies.

Ensures QA readiness of software deliverables.

Participates in a rotating on-call support schedule.

Supports RCAs and resolves issues based on SLAs.

Develops comprehensive documentation for multiple applications or subsystems SLI, SLA and SLOs.

Analyzes, recommends, and performs software upgrades, security patches, and bug fixes to maintain applications and platform systems compliance.

Plans and coordinates project schedules and assignments for multiple projects.

Provides technology solutions to daily issues and estimates technical evaluation requirements for technology initiatives.

Advises senior management on technical strategy.

Mentors junior team members.

Education and Experience:

Bachelors degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, GRD Civil 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 leading, developing, and ensuring the reliability of enterprise wide Cloud platform solutions.

Or, alternatively, Masters degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, GRD Civil 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 leading, developing, and ensuring the reliability of enterprise wide Cloud platform solutions.

Skills and Knowledge:

Candidate must also possess:

Demonstrate expertise ("DE") architecting and engineering enterprise Kubernetes (K8s) solutions based in private and public Clouds; performing Kubernetes administration on Docker, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), and Rancher Kubernetes Service; developing K8s custom resource definitions (CRD), admission controllers (OPA), and platform auto-scalers, using YAML, JSON, and Python; and managing and supporting Docker, application load balancers, Nginx, Openstack, and VMware configurations as it relates to K8s.

DE designing and developing Jenkins pipelines for periodic maintenance of Cloud solutions based in Rancher, EKS, and Pivotal Cloud Foundry; developing platform automation, using Python, Bash, and Groovy; performing automation, using Hashicorp vault via API, telemetry tools (Datadog), and ELK for platform observability; and performing monthly releases for upgrades, using Jenkins, Docker, Groovy, and Python.

DE increasing platform stability while business is continuing to scale, using Kubernetes and Datadog; increasing platform availability, performance, and efficiency through effective change management, emergency response, and capacity planning; supporting Cloud platforms, using ServiceNow, Jmagic, Datadog, Kibana, and Instana; identifying, measuring, and supporting SLAs to business partners while adhering to RACI engagement; implementing baseline monitoring using Datadog; and developing functional testing for K8s platforms, using Python and Groovy.

DE designing, building, and maintaining software applications in Cloud Runtime platforms -- RKS, EKS, and PCF -- using Jenkins, helm, Splunk, ELK, and AWS technologies (EC2, ALB, Route53, S3, and Stacksets); performing load balancing, using ALB and AVI; performing capacity planning of on-premises and Amazon Cloud storages and databases -- EBS, S3, RDS, and EFS -- using historical metrics; and performing continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), using Docker, Jenkins, uDeploy, and Helm.

For full job details and to apply, please visit https://jobs.fidelity.com/ and search for job number: 2031323.

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