Senior Associate Infrastructure Engineer (Network)

Discover. A brighter future.

With us, you’ll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors: We Play to Win, We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. And we mean it — we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world's leading digital banking and payments companies. We value what makes you unique so that you have an opportunity to shine.

Come build your future, while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover.

Job Description:

At Discover, be part of a culture where diversity, teamwork, and collaboration reign. Join a company that is just as employee focused as it is on its customers and is consistently awarded for both. We’re all about people, and our employees are why Discover is a great place to work. Be the reason we help millions of consumers build a brighter financial future and achieve yours along the way with a rewarding career. 

As a Senior Associate Network Engineer, you’ll deliver highly available, scalable, and diverse network infrastructure to facilitate key business functions at Discover. At the corner of our industry’s best practices and an automation security-first mindset, lies your project work. You’ll leverage both to ensure we deliver data quickly and securely. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management. 

Responsibilities 

• Ability to identify, prioritize, and resolve vulnerability items of varying severity via network devices configuration.
• Track network hardware and software licenses, maintenance licenses, reconcile with vendor(s), and maintain an up-to-date inventory across the network infrastructure.
• Track and maintain physical network device inventory across all data centers and maintaining a healthy spares inventory in times of need.
• Seek and establish automated processes and improve existing procedures with tracking vulnerabilities and inventory management.
• Ability to resolve basic vulnerabilities items via network devices configuration.
• Skill and aptitude to build out remediation plans with detailed scope for device/product family of network devices.
• Build Standard Operating Procedure documents to have cross functional teams support remediation efforts.
• Executes increasing variety of user stories with different contexts across the different stages of the product lifecycle 
• Uses automation, system tools, open-source solutions, observability and 'security first' principles in daily work 
• Contributes to team agile ceremonies, leads demos and presentations, helps new engineers learn established norms 
• Comfortably implements solutions using automation, observability and security principles 
• Engages in adoption of new technology 
• Continues professional education; learns key product capabilities and has desire to learn higher levels of craftsmanship in day-to-day engineering tasks 

Minimum Qualifications 

At a minimum, here’s what we need from you: 

• Bachelors – Computer Science or related 
• 1+ Years – (Software) Engineering, DevOps or related 
• Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of advanced beginner on the Dreyfus engineering scale 

Preferred Qualifications 

Bonus Points If You Have: 

• Basic understanding of networking concepts like the OSI model, switching, and routing
• Solid concept of network security and its principles.
• Knowledge of a scripting language like Python
• Knowledge of Ansible would be appreciated.
• Strong communication skills.
• Good negotiation skills.
• Innovative mindset to generate new solutions.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word and Excel.
• Strong analytical skills.
• CCNA Certification.
• Great personality that can work across multiple parties and disciplines.

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview. 

Compensation:

The base pay for this position generally ranges between $70,000.00 to $118,400.00. Additional incentives may be provided as part of a market competitive total compensation package. Factors, such as but not limited to, geographical location, relevant experience, education, and skill level may impact the pay for this position.

Benefits:

We also offer a range of benefits and programs based on eligibility. These benefits include:

• Paid Parental Leave

• Paid Time Off

• 401(k) Plan

• Medical, Dental, Vision, & Health Savings Account

• STD, Life, LTD and AD&D

• Recognition Program

• Education Assistance

• Commuter Benefits

• Family Support