Senior DevOps Platform Engineer

This role offers a hybrid work schedule; offering the flexibility to work remotely two days a week, while providing the opportunity for in-person collaboration at our Buffalo, NY Tech Hub.

At M&T Tech, we’re a team of makers, doers, and builders, working to create the most advanced technology solutions in banking.  We’re not your stereotypical suit and tie bankers: we’re an innovative team of leading tech experts, pushing boundaries, and taking risks.  We’re building an agile team of the most skilled and creative workers to solve complex problems, architect solutions, write high-performance software, and chart our new path, all to make the lives of our customers, and the communities that we serve, better.  Join us and be part of something new as we build tomorrow’s bank, today.

The Technology Infrastructure Engineering and Operations Team engineers and supports all the foundational technology used across M&T Bank.  We support two Data Centers, 15,000 Distributed platforms, 24 Mainframe Regions, a secure and reliable Network connecting all the technology across the bank footprint and process approximately 635,000 automated jobs per month.  In addition to that foundational technology level, we own the operational support processes, monitoring and command center that provide a unified, well-managed technology response when issues arise.    We deliver innovative, and compelling technology solutions, in partnership with our line of business CIOs, to enhance the internal customer experience that enables our business partners to deliver.

As a Senior DevOps Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring the deployment, reliability and performance of our infrastructure used to build, test, deploy, observe, and operate enterprise applications, and web services.  In this position you will lead technical efforts in containerization and the deployment of applications into the private and public cloud.  To be considered you must have solid and demonstrable experience designing application infrastructure and automation operations.  You must have a solid understand of how applications consume infrastructure and understand release cadences.

Primary Responsibilities: 

• Partner with applications teams to design and build highly scalable and reliable infrastructure
• Partner with applications and infrastructure teams to orchestrate and automate application deployments
• Build automation and process to enable self-serve production deployments
• Code, configure, integrate, manage, and enhance various automation tools.
• Partner with the relevant team members and managers to build out platform observability
• Participate in application and infrastructure release and deployment activities.

Education and Experience Required:

• Combined minimum of 8 years’ higher education and/or work experience in systems design, management and/or architecture
• A minimum of five years leading efforts in DevOps with expert skills in automated code deployments
• Solid knowledge of domain and industry tools (DevOps, CI/CD, Secrets Management, Container Registries)
• Solid experience deploying highly available applications in on-premises environments and on cloud
• Must have demonstrated skills and experience writing Ansible playbooks for automation and building pipelines
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible)
• Experience working with build, test, and deployment tools
• Experience working with Source Control Management Systems
• Experience working with container and container orchestration 

Education and Experience Preferred:

• Experience with Azure

We support our team members with generous benefits. 

• Competitive compensation 

• Health, welfare, and retirement benefits 

• 401(k) match at 5% 

• Work-life balance and flexible work arrangements 

• Banking Officers start with 25 days PTO plus 12 paid holidays  

• 40 hours paid volunteer hours per year 

• Much more. For deta