Lead Software Engineer, DevOps - Site Reliability Engineering
Capital OneAbout the role
Do you love building and pioneering in the technology space? Do you enjoy solving complex business problems in a fast-paced, collaborative, inclusive, and iterative delivery environment? At Capital One, you'll be part of a big group of makers, breakers, doers and disruptors, who love to solve real problems and meet real customer needs. We are seeking DevOps Engineers who are passionate about marrying data with emerging technologies to join our team. In this role, you will act as a Lead DevOps Engineer on a Site Reliability team in Bank Tech. You’ll have the opportunity to be on the forefront of driving a major transformation within Capital One.
What You’ll Do:
Lead a portfolio of diverse technology projects and a team of developers with deep experience in machine learning, distributed microservices, and full stack systems to create solutions that help meet regulatory needs for the company
Share your passion for staying on top of tech trends, experimenting with and learning new technologies, participating in internal & external technology communities, and mentoring other members of the engineering community
Collaborate with digital product managers, and deliver robust cloud-based solutions that drive powerful experiences to help millions of Americans achieve financial empowerment
Utilize programming languages like Java, Python, SQL, Ruby and Go, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, CM tools including Ansible and Terraform, and a variety of AWS tools and services
Collaborate with and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions in full-stack development tools and technologies
Communicate Service Level Objective concepts to product partners and drive agreement on objectives
Influence the strategic direction of the team, identifying and prioritizing opportunities to improve reliability
Drive resolution of issues on incident calls, providing systematic and logical approaches and prioritize the work of multiple teams to drive resolution
Drive improvements to the incident resolution process with the introduction of automation
Conduct blameless incident reviews and post incident analysis and communicate incident review learnings
Drive implementation of processes or solutions that improve reliability across multiple platforms
Identify gaps in automation and develop strategic plans to drive solutions that reduce toil for the platform teams
Work with other experts to arrive at optimal design and deployment configurations
Establish standards that improve deployment and system reliability for integration pipelines and recommend approaches for chaos testing a particular system
Identify and create proactive, automated approaches for system reliability and alerting and identify key performance indicators for a system, including adding, tuning and maintaining alert configurations
Understand business requirements for system reliability and translate them into implementations such as scaling, failover, timeouts and health checks and work with development teams to test and improve system performance and reliability
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree
At least 6 years of experience in DevOps Engineering (Internship experience does not apply)
At least 3 years of experience in Cloud Native technologies (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
At least 4 years of Unix or Linux system administration experience
Preferred Qualifications:
7+ years of DevOps Engineering experience
5+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer
4+ experience with coding and scripting (Python, SQL, Java, JavaScript, Golang, Bash, Perl or Ruby)
4+ years of experience deploying and supporting Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (Jenkins, GitLab, Spinnaker)
2+ years of experience in a technical leadership role overseeing strategic projects
2+ years of experience deploying Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Cloud Formation)
2+ years of experience in database server infrastructure (RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, MySQL, Postgres)
2+ years of experience in container orchestration services (ECS, Kubernetes)
2+ years of experience building and testing software (Jmeter, Mockito, JUnit)
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