Senior Associate, Cloud Engineering

What You'll Do

This role will perform a range of activities required to both maintain and continuously automate a large, complex cloud-based computing environment. You will also work with other internal departments to support their requests and efforts in cloud services and automation in this environment. In addition, this role will support Security, Compliance and Audit requests related to cloud services and infrastructure in this environment including remediation of any findings.

The ideal candidate is passionate about new technologies, keeps current with trends in the Cloud and Infrastructure space, while always searching for ways to improve our systems as technology evolves, with a steady eye towards the extensive regulatory/compliance demands on our company (e.g. CIS, NIST, etc).

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

• Remediation of Security findings
• Owning the Compliance and Audit items for the department and driving them to completion, including helping remediate.  
• Support DevOps development activities and complex development tasks that will involve working with tools such as Docker, Kafka, CICD tools (Github, Jenkins, Artifactory, etc), and container management systems
• Provide advanced system administration, operational support and problem resolution for a large complex cloud computing environment
• Test and support a library of deployable, and documented automation design scripts, processes, and procedures
• Assist in the design, configuration, implementation and support of an automated workflow for cloud environment provisioning
• Assist with production changes during defined maintenance windows and support on call rotation
• Perform cloud computing build-outs, software installation, maintenance and support
• Write and maintain documentation of relevant operating procedures and processes
• Assist in the design, development, and building of the business’s cloud infrastructure architecture

Supervisory Responsibilities:

None

Qualifications:

The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.

• [Required] Good consultative, communication, team player and analytical skills are a must, as you will be regularly interacting between various teams distributed across the US
• [Required] Relevant experience with configuration and implementation of IaaS/Infrastructure as code in a cloud enviroment (AWS, Azure, etc.) in a corporate environment
• [Required] Experience with implementing and maintaining highly available mission critical environments for 24/7 availability with a defined production change control process is a strong plus
• [Required] Ability to work within a fast-paced environment with short timelines and work well under pressure

Technical Skills:

• [Required] Advanced degree, preferably in a technical discipline (Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, etc.) and relevant IT systems experience in cloud systems, or equivalent combination of education and experience required

Education and/or Experience:

• [Required] Advanced degree, preferably in a technical discipline (Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, etc.) and relevant IT systems experience in cloud systems, or equivalent combination of education and experience required

Certificates or Licenses:

• None

Who We Are

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms. More information about OCC is available at www.theocc.com.

What We Offer

A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness. Some of these components include:

A hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work

Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued ed