Lead Associate Principal, Software Engineering: DevOps

OCC • Dallas, TX

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is seeking a Lead Associate Principal, Software Engineering: DevOps to join their team. This role involves collaborating with various teams to fulfill technical requirements, deploying applications, directing automation pipelines, and guiding the setup of common infrastructure platforms. The position focuses on implementing DevOps CI/CD pipelines, managing containerized microservices, automating infrastructure provisioning, and implementing security and monitoring solutions for cloud infrastructure. The role also includes monitoring application performance, promoting security standards, and collaborating with different teams to ensure smooth operations and deployments. This position is eligible for the Employee Referral Program.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related
• Five (5) years of experience as a software developer, software engineer, or related
• Must have work experience with implementing DevOps CI/CD pipelines to automate the build and deployment process to AWS and Rancher cloud infrastructure using Jenkins or Harness, Docker and Kubernetes
• Must have work experience with deploying and managing docker containerized microservices applications in Kubernetes environments using Helm for configuration management and orchestration
• Must have work experience with automating infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Terraform and Ansible with Python scripting for deployment automation tasks
• Must have work experience with implementing security and monitoring solutions for cloud infrastructure using Hashicorp Vault for secrets management and Splunk for log aggregation and alerting

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with various product, infrastructure, operations, security, and production control teams to elicit and fulfil technical requirements.
• Perform deployment of Clearing, Risk and Data Platform applications into the ORT environment.
• Direct, review, configure, and execute Terraform Ansible automation pipelines delivered by product teams.
• Guide the setup of common infrastructure platform including multi-region Kubernetes and Kafka cluster.
• Implement DevOps CI/CD pipelines to automate the build and deployment process to AWS and Rancher cloud infrastructure using Jenkins or Harness, Docker and Kubernetes.
• Deploy and manage docker containerized microservices applications in Kubernetes environments using Helm for configuration management and orchestration.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Terraform and Ansible with Python scripting for deployment automation tasks.
• Implement security and monitoring solutions for cloud infrastructure using Hashicorp Vault for secrets management and Splunk for log aggregation and alerting.
• Elicit requirements for deployment of application and sizing for managing expected workload.
• Monitor the performance of applications and tune working with product teams.
• Promote standards across application configuration towards the highest security.
• Collaborate with access management and security teams on setting up roles and permissions for systems and users using least privilege strategies.
• Collaborate with the integration/performance testing team to leverage integrated release tested in Integration/Release Acceptance environment.
• Collaborate operations/enablement teams to deliver infra and apps to start testing.
• Collaborate with production controls teams on monitoring, failover, and logging.
• Provide guidance to systems engineering, Dev/Ops professionals for building highly performant environment.
• Implement infrastructure failover scenarios.

Benefits

• A hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work
• Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education
• Student Loan Repayment Assistance
• Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely
• Generous PTO and Parental leave
• 401k Employer Match
• Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision
• Discretionary bonus

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees