Principal Technology Platform Engineer

***We are unable to sponsor for this permanent full-time role**

***Position is bonus eligible***

Prestigious Financial Company is currently seeking a Principal Technology Platform Engineer. Candidate will be a senior member of the team, and be responsible for collaborating with stakeholders, partner teams, and solutions architects to research and engineer available technologies as part of a comprehensive requirements-driven solution design. Candidate will be developing technology engineering requirements and leading proof-of-concept and laboratory testing efforts using modern approaches to process and automation.

Responsibilities:

• Key contributor to technology platform design, testing, and implementation process to introduce new technology and improve existing technology initiatives for hybrid cloud and on-premises infrastructure within the Data Centers.
• Define and implement testing and success criteria for platforms, products, and technologies to ensure alignment with business, security, and architecture objectives.
• Lead and participate in exploratory proof-of-concept engagements and technology stress testing to determine solution feasibility and stability.
• Collaborate with various partner teams across technology, security, and business to provide technical consultation as part of projects and daily business activities.
• Create technical knowledge and guideline documentation for new and existing technologies to assist partner teams with knowledge transfer for execution and operations.
• Develop and maintain scalable DevSecOps pipelines, including CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and automated security scanning.
• No direct supervision, but candidate will provide mentorship to members of the team.

Qualifications:

• Excellent oral and written communication.
• Ability to think strategically and map architectural decisions/recommendations to business needs
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with local and remote employees, vendors, and consultants.
• Must possess critical values, including (but not limited to) collaboration, credibility, trust, adaptability and commitment to do the right thing.
• Proven track record of collaborating cross-functionally and delivering impactful technical solutions.

Technical Skills:

• Experience developing CI/CD workflows using tools like Github Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps Pipelines, AWS CodePipeline, etc..
• Familiarity with GitOps driven deployment tooling with solutions using tools like ArgoCD, FluxCD, etc..
• In-depth knowledge of Observability and enterprise-level monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions through tools like Prometheus, Elasticsearch, Grafana, etc..
• Experience with Cloud native technologies such as Kubernetes, ECS or Azure Container instances.
• Understanding of enterprise-grade networking technologies, including routers, switches, firewalls and load balancers.
• Knowledge of network security protocols and certificate-based authentication
• Deeply experienced with infrastructure as code, like Terraform, OpenTofu or Pulumi
• Experience working with authentication protocols and suites ( LDAP, Kerberos, SAML,  etc.), multi-factor authentication and password-less platforms and technologies, role-based access control and entitlements, etc.
• Solid understanding of common database technologies on-premises and in the cloud (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, MSSQL, etc..), data field hardening and encryption, access controls, high-availability, etc.
• Understanding of governance frameworks and standards such as COBIT, NIST CSF are a plus.
• Experience with regulatory frameworks such as Reg SCI and CFTC 99.18 are a plus.
• Education and/or Experience:
• [Preferred] 10+ years of progressive experience as a senior/lead engineer in a DevOps, SRE or infrastructure-focused role 
• [Required] Deep expertise in cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, etc.) and infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform, Ansible, etc.
• [Required] Strong background in designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, with experience integration security testing and compliance
• [Required] Proficient in scripting and programing languages such as Python, Bash or Go
• [Required] Understanding of traditional on-premises data center technologies and hybrid cloud architecture
• [Preferred] Bachelor’s degree or higher in a technical field