Senior Cloud Engineer

Your Opportunity

At Schwab, you're empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us "challenge the status quo" and transform the finance industry together. A career in our cloud database and storage team within Platform Engineering, will provide you with the opportunity to focus on joint relationship between Cloud Services and various application teams to bring new and innovative solutions. You will be at the forefront of helping application teams within Schwab adopt innovative cloud solutions that optimize business processes or enable scalable technology.

The Senior Cloud Engineer with Cloud focus, will build, update, and troubleshoot cloud infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of Cloud platforms with a focus on Databases and related components like IAM, Network and Security. This will be hands-on engineering role on architectural side of development process in support of Schwab's Cloud Databases for various business initiatives.

What you're good at:

• Develop and automate infrastructure with Terraform
• Create reusable, modular orchestrated code to deploy resources.
• Analyze complex ideas or proposals and build a range of meaningful recommendations.
• Champion managing cloud environments in accordance with cloud best practices and security guidelines.
• Collaborate with Product Teams, architects, and Engineers to deliver positive cloud deployment experiences
• Mentor junior developers in design patterns, best practices, and software development strategy
• Participate in an on-call rotation that provides 24x7 platform support.
• Stay technically curious, research and implement new technical solutions
• Identify and influence ways to improve our technology, process & performance
• Participate in an agile scrum-based software development environment
• Excel in fast-paced customer focused environment which embraces the newest technologies and techniques.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

What you have

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Cyber Security, related degree field OR related practical experience
• Minimum 7 years' experience working within Enterprise IT with Bachelor of Computer Science, or equivalent relevant work experience.
• 3-5 years' experience of development languages; to include but not limited to Terraform, Bicep, JSON, Python, JavaScript, or YAML.
• 5+ years' experience in public cloud environments - Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure, or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Expert knowledge of configuration and best practices around Cloud resources to include VMs, VNETs, Security Groups, IAM, Key Management, SQL, Cosmos DB, Private Link, Kubernetes, Data Bricks, etc.
• Advanced knowledge of cloud-native resources and deployment to ensure scalability, resiliency, performance, and reliability.
• Advanced trouble shooting capabilities of Cloud and Infrastructure Services.
• Experience working within a Dev Ops framework using CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Atlassian suite of products to include JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket & Bamboo
• Knowledge of cloud database and storage concepts