Principal Cloud Engineer

Fidelity Investments • Westlake, TX

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About The Position

Performs software project management duties using Agile methodologies -- KANBAN and SCRUM. Works with various modern programming languages, frameworks and tools -- Terraform, Cloud Formation, Ansible, Python, and PowerShell. Performs application development, deployment, and infrastructure maintenance, using Amazon Web Services (AWS). Designs and develops Oracle, Oracle Relational Database Service (RDS), and MySQL. Automates and deploys code using Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tools, Git, Jenkins, and uDeploy.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and five (5) years of experience as a Principal Cloud Engineer (or closely related occupation) implementing continuous automation and cloud workloads using Infrastructure-as-Code (IAC) and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) orchestration tools and practices.
• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and three (3) years of experience as a Principal Cloud Engineer (or closely related occupation) implementing continuous automation and cloud workloads using Infrastructure-as-Code (IAC) and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) orchestration tools and practices.
• Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) provisioning, configuring, and maintaining secure, Cloud-based workloads in AWS; and incorporating enterprise security guardrails and standards, with observability enablement, and implementing SSL certificates (renewals and imports), using Venafi.
• DE collaborating with architecture teams and stakeholders on application migration and onboarding strategies to AWS and Kubernetes; reviewing operational readiness assessments and coordinating with developers on standardized production best practices and processes, using GitHub, Jenkins Core, Artifactory, Hashicorp Vault, and OpenTofu.
• DE designing and developing reusable CI/CD pipeline templates for deploying applications through orchestration, using Jenkins; and maintaining source code projects and repositories in GitHub according to internal corporate security policies and standards (Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) standard).
• DE automating the Build and Release process for Java applications, using Maven, Sonar Analysis, and Artifactory; automating deployment and configuration tasks using Shell Scripting and Infrastructure as Code; and enabling observability through Datadog.

Responsibilities

• Develops, deploys, and supports key applications and features.
• Implements best practices for object-oriented design, coding standards, RESTful service consumption, secure application development, and test coverage.
• Performs software development process including analysis, design, coding, system and user testing, problem resolution, and planning.
• Decomposes sophisticated business problems into creative, efficient, and scalable solutions.
• Works closely with the development, architecture, and other partners to facilitate DevOps capabilities.
• Builds modular, reusable Automation as Code templates.
• Assists in the build, support, and design of pipeline orchestration and automation.
• Responsible for maintaining Jenkins environment, working on multiple plugins, and helping the team use the required plugins.
• Responsible for bug fixes and enhances existing shared library functions.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal