DevOps 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.

We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location.

The Next Generation Order Management System (ngOMS) team is responsible for creating an industry leading order management system to support Schwab's trading environment. We are looking for a DevOps Engineer role to advance the Next Generation Order Management System (ngOMS) platform's pipeline resiliency, adaptability, and speed to production. Proficiency with the current tools we utilize for automation, delivery, and the software development lifecycle will be critical to your success. In addition to your technical work, you would be collaborating with the Development, QA, and SRE teams to optimize the environments and tooling. You will also interact closely with our product partners, support teams, and other technical leaders. The successful candidate will have a proven track record of building and supporting Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipelines, ideally in a financial trading environment.

This role will require the ability to regularly work in a Schwab headquarters location.

What you have

• Proficient with System Automation and Configuration management utilizing tools like; Puppet, Foreman, Terraform, Salt, Ansible, etc.
• 3+ years developing, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines
• More than 3 year's experience with tools like Jenkins, Gradle, and Ansible to orchestrate pipeline deployments
• Version Control System Management using tools like Bitbucket, Git, and Artifactory in a Java-based environment, 3+ years experience
• Familiarity with the following languages to support the ngOMS pipeline and applications; Python, Shell scripting, Ruby, Puppet, Groovy, JSON, YAML, XML, HTML, Markdown
• 3+ years of engineering support for Java-based applications in production & non-production environments
• Provide knowledge transition to team members on various automation and configuration tools
• High sense of urgency with the ability to calmly collaborate within the ngOMS team and the wider Schwab technology organization

What you have

To ensure that we have fulfilled our promise of "challenging the status quo," this role has specific qualifications that successful candidates should have.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux background
• Current working experience with Schwab sysyems and processes
• Knowledge of Java programming (at least 3 years)
• 2+ years of Google Cloud Platform support
• Familiarity with CouchDB and PostgreSQL
• Understanding of performance best practices, performance key metrics, and statistics
• 3+ years with distributed systems and networking
• Experience with troubleshooting/diagnosing JVM issues (e.g. thread dumps, garbage collection and memory management)
• Experience with large financial services corporations or similar industry
• Excellent analytical, organizational and problem solving/decision making skills
• Must be very detail oriented
• Proven ability to work effectively in a team setting as well as independently with minimal error and guidance
• Above average verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work effectively across teams and departments
• Ability to draft a plan, socialize for feedback/new input, establish a roadmap & execute providing updates to stakeholders on an established cadence

In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities