Infrastructure Engineer II

USAA•Plano, TX

18h•Hybrid

About The Position

USAA is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer II to join their team. This role involves identifying and managing risks, designing scalable infrastructure, automating service delivery, and resolving complex production issues. The engineer will also analyze outages, experiment with new technologies, and apply engineering best practices. While some assistance may be provided for understanding customer needs and evaluating solutions, the role requires independence in troubleshooting and problem-solving.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field and 2 years of experience in a related occupation.
Developing cost guardrails and managing financial risk to drive accurate budget forecasting.
Integration of cost control policies using Github.
Experience working with cloud spending data.
Developing Terraform scripts for finops automation.
Experience with observability platforms Dynatrace, Datadog and CloudWatch.
Experience analyzing pricing models.
Handling incidents and backlogs through ServiceNow.
Performing cost optimization across hybrid cloud environments including OpenShift and managed Kubernetes clusters.
Experience with VMaaS for automation failures with Terraform configuration changes.
Experience with Apptio, Turbonomic, and CloudCheckr.
Deploying containerized services using Docker and Podman embedded tagging.
Java and Go Lang for building internal applications and automating financial usage and governance.
Public cloud, Jenkins, and Power BI.

Responsibilities

Identify and manage existing and emerging risks that stem from business activities and the job role.
Ensure risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled.
Follow written risk and compliance policies and procedures for business activities.
Design scalable infrastructure with minimal oversight.
Implement system change with consistency and autonomy.
Automate service delivery and maintenance tasks.
Build monitoring and tooling for systems.
Resolve complex production issues with independence by troubleshooting complex systems independently.
Analyze complex outages to identify opportunities.
Experiment with new patterns and technologies.
Understand and consistently exercise engineering best practices, concepts, and patterns.
Understand the customer and identify solutions and ideas for the customer with some assistance.
Evaluate potential solutions with some oversight.