Job responsibilities
- Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
- Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
- Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
- Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
- Adds to the team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
- Applies deep technical knowledge and problem-solving methodologies to analyze complex data/systems, anticipate issues, and mitigate risks
- Works with other Engineering teams and platforms to architect and rapidly iterate on designs, patterns, or changes required to resolve issues and modernize the organization and its technology processes
- Solves problems, not deliver fixes and provides technical guidance and strategic direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced in one or more programming language(s)
- Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
- Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
- Practical cloud native experience
- Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
- Advanced knowledge of Reliability Engineering, testing automation, one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, etc.), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, etc), Software Defined Networks & Network Security domain knowledge including VNFs, CNFs, CNIs (Cilium, OVH, Calico, etc), SASE, Micro and Macro Segmentation/Zero Trust; and other infrastructure technologies (e.g., hardware, databases, storage, identity, cloud infrastructure)
- Hyper-scaling in a enterprise cloud environment
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience with secure coding, AppSec, threat modeling, code testing, third party cyber security controls / testing, threat / risk assessment, vulnerabilities/weaknesses, and penetration testing (for Security Engineers)
- Network domain / engineering experience with underlay and overlay topologies at scale. Experience with Policy as code frameworks / tooling (OPA, Kyverno, etc)
- Experience to rapidly evolving start up style organizations within a large regulated firm