Vice President, DevOps / Application Infrastructure Backend Engineer

BNY Mellon•Pittsburgh, PA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

At BNY, our culture allows us to run our company better and enables employees’ growth and success. As a leading global financial services company at the heart of the global financial system, we influence nearly 20% of the world’s investible assets. Every day, our teams harness cutting-edge AI and breakthrough technologies to collaborate with clients, driving transformative solutions that redefine industries and uplift communities worldwide. Recognized as a top destination for innovators and champions of inclusion, BNY is where bold ideas meet advanced technology and exceptional talent. Together, we power the future of finance – and this is what #LifeAtBNY is all about. Join us and be part of something extraordinary. We are seeking an experienced DevOps / Application Infrastructure Backend Engineer to join our Structured Debt Client Platform team to support middleware, cloud infrastructure, container platforms, and production application workloads. This role will requires strong hands-on experience supporting business-critical Java applications in AWS and Kubernetes environments.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline. An equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience will also be considered.
5-9 years of work experience in similar skills
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional certification.
Enterprise production experience with Amazon EKS.
Experience deploying Kubernetes applications using Helm and GitOps practices.
Experience with Kubernetes secrets management and multi-environment deployment strategies.
Knowledge of container image optimization, vulnerability management, networking, persistent volumes, secrets, and container lifecycle management.
Experience supporting both Linux and Windows server environments.
3-5 years of experience in DevOps, middleware administration, application infrastructure, vulnerability remediation, cloud engineering, or production support .
Hands-on experience supporting Java/Spring Boot applications in production environments.
Experience administering Apache HTTP Server, NGINX, Tomcat, or comparable middleware technologies.
Practical experience with AWS infrastructure and networking services, including EC2, load balancers, VPCs, subnets, and security groups.
Hands-on experience with Docker and containerized application workloads.
Hands-on experience with Vulnerability remediation
Experience supporting Kubernetes environments and troubleshooting Kubernetes components, networking, ingress, load balancing, storage, and deployments.
Experience designing or maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
Working knowledge of Git workflows, automated builds, testing, security scanning, and deployment practices.
Hands-on experience with Terraform and Ansible.
Strong Bash/Shell and Python scripting skills.
Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Datadog, Splunk, or CloudWatch.
Experience with production incident management, root-cause analysis, disaster recovery, and highly available environments.
Strong troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and collaboration skills.
Willingness and ability to participate in a 24x7 on-call production-support rotation.
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification or equivalent.

Responsibilities

Administer and support middleware and application workloads, including Apache HTTP Server, NGINX, Tomcat, Java/Spring Boot, and Angular applications running on Linux and Windows servers.
Support AWS infrastructure, including EC2, Application Load Balancers (ALB), Network Load Balancers (NLB), VPCs, subnets, security groups, and EKS networking.
Build, deploy, and support containerized Java/Spring Boot and Angular applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
Create and maintain Dockerfiles, container images, and image repositories while applying container security and image-optimization best practices.
Deploy applications to Kubernetes using Helm and Git-based deployment processes.
Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD, AWS CodePipeline, or comparable platforms.
Integrate build tools such as Maven, Ant, and npm into automated pipelines.
Implement automated build, testing, security-scanning, and deployment processes.
Provision and manage infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible.
Develop automation and operational tooling using Bash, Shell scripting, and Python.
Support Kubernetes environments, preferably AWS EKS, including networking, ingress, load balancing, storage, secrets, and application lifecycle management.
Monitor application and infrastructure health using platforms such as Datadog, Splunk, and Amazon CloudWatch.
Troubleshoot production infrastructure, middleware, networking, deployment, and performance issues affecting Java applications.
Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, problem management, disaster-recovery exercises, and high-availability planning.
Provide production support as part of a 24x7 on-call rotation.
Develop and maintain runbooks, operational procedures, architecture documentation, troubleshooting guides, and knowledge-base articles.
Collaborate effectively with application development, infrastructure, security, and operations teams.