Chief Infrastructure Automation Engineer

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed.  We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

Job Description

U.S. Bank is seeking a motivated Chief Engineer with strong leadership abilities to contribute toward the success of our technology initiatives. Provides a combination of technical and business leadership while being the primary trusted and capable owner of one or more high priority, high visibility, complex focused initiatives that typically cross multiple technology and business line areas. Will typically have a small number of direct reports (e.g., an architect, systems analyst, etc.) and provide guidance to a larger community including affected systems, program management, and test leadership.

Responsibilities include:
- Accountable for solution design and delivery executed by Technology & Operations Services (TOS), the business line and vendor partners.
- Act as an interface with TOS and business partners, vendors and subject matter experts (SMEs) for solution design and delivery; provide counsel to the business line during ideation stages.
- Proactively communicate statuses, issues, risks and mitigation to senior leadership; serve as a primary project issue escalation point.
- Champion the refresh of bank standards and methods using learnings from program delivery, SMEs and industry changes.
- Drives alignment and influences vendor partner product strategy.
- Develops and communicates program visons and roadmaps.
- Advises on solution definition, planning and high-level design.
- Appropriately governs program technology and engineering dimensions.

Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in business, MIS, engineering, computer science, mathematics, any science, or equivalent work experience
- Eight or more years of experience in delivering software-based solutions
 

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Extensive knowledge on installing, supporting, configuring Linux & Windows OS systems and the underline hardware

• Strong with Linux & Windows systems performance tuning, troubleshooting and backup/recovery

• Strong knowledge of virtualization systems, VMware, ESXI, vSphere, KVM

• Strong knowledge of container systems and Kubernetes

• Experience on automating tasks with Shell script, Python, Powershell, etc.

• Extensive experience on configuration management with tools such as Ansible, Salt stack, Puppet, Chef

• Extensive experience using source control tools, such as GitLab, GitHub, & Bitbucket

• Extensive experience using CI/CD tools and methods such as Jenkins or GitLab Runners to deploy and manage infrastructure

• Experience in AWS or Azure Cloud infrastructure

• Experience in infrastructure as code (IAC) using tools such as HashiCorp Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, etc.

Location Expectations

The role offers a hybrid/flexible schedule, which means there's an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and the flexibility to work outside the office location for the other days.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits: 

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following (some may vary based on role, location or hours):

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

• Basic term and optional term life insurance

• Short-term and long-term disability

• Pregnancy disability and parental leave

• 401(k) and employer-funded retire