Capital One Senior Software Engineer DevOps 

United States, Virginia, Richmond 

395194395

What You’ll Do:

• Design, deploy and support automation and scripting solutions to drive new capabilities, visibility, and efficiency.

• Influence resiliency and scalability in production environments in Amazon Web Services (AWS).

• Identify opportunities and develop proactive automated monitoring and alerting solutions by utilizing available tools (Splunk, New Relic, etc.).

• Provide technical leadership and guidance around DevOps best practices

• Identify opportunities to reduce manual validation efforts and drive zero touch automation and self healing

• Proactively monitor all of the applications and infrastructure behind Capital One’s external and internal customer facing services including their availability, latency, performance, and capacity

• Manage and govern relationships with technology vendors utilized in the enterprise.

• Create, manage and utilize appropriate technical procedural documentation (run books)

• Ongoing on the job training and self study professional development

• Operations Tier 3 escalation resource for incident resolution

Successful candidates will possess:

• Exceptional interpersonal and verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to document solutions, present ideas to cross-functional teams, and explain operational issue background and root cause to senior leaders

• Meticulous attention to detail

• Solid understanding of cloud based solutions and services (preferably in AWS)

• A passion to drive automation, scripting, machine learning, and self healing

• A passion for teamwork

• Ability to work in a flexible work environment that embraces rapid change, emphasizes continuous learning, and attacks new challenges

• Ability to adequately discuss technical issues with technicians, engineers, architects and vendors.

• Ability to work as part of an integrated team that is geographically dispersed, as well as work independently as required.

• Experience with Linux

• Familiarity utilizing REST APIs

• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code methodologies and tools

• Proficient knowledge of common DevOps tools such as Git/Github, Jenkins, containers, etc.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree

• At least 4 years of experience in DevOps Engineering(Internship experience does not apply)

• At least 2 years of experience with Cloud Native technologies (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform)

• At least 2 years of Unix or Linux system administration experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience developing applications

• 1+ years of experience with AWS Lambda

• 2+ years of experience with Python

• AWS Solutions Architect Associate Certification

• 2+ years of experience working with Agile Development Practices