Associate Principal, Cloud Engineering

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 education

Student Loan Repayment Assistance

Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely

Generous PTO and Parental leave

Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision

What You'll Do:

As the company moves further along its journey into a Cloud-based infrastructure environment and leveraging of modern Infrastructure as Code practices, we are looking for cloud platform engineers seeking highly complex and challenging work that will have true ripple effects across an industry. As an Associate Principal, Cloud Engineering, you will perform a range of activities required to both maintain and continuously automate a large cloud-based computing environment. In addition, you will provide technical guidance within the team on networking andserve as a technical liaison between internal departments. This will involve utilizing best practices for the management, architecture, configuration, administration, and automation of the enterprise server virtualization environment with cloud technologies. The ideal candidate is passionate about new technologies, passionate about customer experience, keeps current with trends in the Cloud and Infrastructure space, while also 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.

• Develop and maintain a high quality library of deployable, tested, and documented automation design scripts, processes, and procedures.

• Deliver development objectives and complex development tasks that will involve working with tools such as Docker, Kafka and container management systems.

• Implement production changes during defined maintenance windows and support on call rotation.

• Perform cloud computing and virtual environment build-outs, software installation, maintenance and support (ie Terraform)

• Work on a dynamic and very broad range of cloud projects requiring on-the-project learning and use of various best in breed open-source projects

• Manage customer expectations and go the extra mile (communication, documentation, testing) to meet customer needs and build long lasting partnerships.

• Write and maintain documentation of relevant operating procedures and processes

• Design, develop, and build 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] Strong experience managing\building cloud infrastructure (storage, compute, networking, etc) using automation.

• [Required] Experience with architecting, implementing and maintaining highly available cloud environments for 24/7 availability.

• Working Experience with Kubernetes/Containers

• Strong, Relevant experience using Terraform in a mature, enterprise environment.  

• [Required] Demonstrates history of working within deadlines and ability to work well under pressure.

• Proven track record of being a great teammate including: collaboration within the team, being organized around complex work delivery, empowering junior members, treating everyone with respect, delivering work independently, raising issues promptly, and celebrate successes.

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