Platform Infrastructure Cloud, SRE Engineer - Assistant Vice President

$120,000 - $160,000/Yr

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Full-time - Executive

New York, NY

About the position

The Vice President of Platform Infrastructure at iCapital is responsible for ensuring the smooth and secure operation of production and development environments. This role focuses on leveraging advanced cloud capabilities to enhance market agility and maintain high-quality standards to meet client demands. The position requires collaboration across various business aspects and involves implementing cutting-edge cloud computing solutions.

Responsibilities

• Build highly available solutions across the entire SDLC stack with primary focus on an internet facing fintech site.
• Develop and maintain tools to support the development environment on MacOS and Linux, focusing on improving developer productivity.
• Maintain site reliability by building highly scalable systems and integrating resiliency and high availability at all levels.
• Develop software and tooling to secure and automate cloud infrastructure, enabling fully automatic workflows for software delivery.
• Design and operate a Kubernetes environment for container management and orchestration.
• Participate in on-call rotations to understand the system and help build automation tools.

Requirements

• 5+ years of DevOps, TechOps, or SRE experience with 3+ years of AWS experience.
• Microservices (Docker, Kubernetes) experience in a production environment strongly desired.
• Strong Linux OS-level and command-line/scripting knowledge and configuration management principles.
• Working knowledge of databases such as MongoDB, Postgres, DynamoDB.
• Experience in architecting, implementing, and managing monitoring tools such as Prometheus/Grafana, CloudWatch, Splunk, NewRelic, and ELK in the cloud.
• Coding beyond simple scripting with strong opinions on maintainable/reusable code in Python, Ruby, or Java desired.
• Experience with infrastructure provisioning on a Cloud-based platform using Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
• Experience with distributed systems design, maintenance, and hands-on troubleshooting/debugging skills.
• Exceptional analytical skills, able to apply knowledge and experience in decision-making to arrive at creative and commercial solutions.
• Experience building a Microservice-based architecture.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in updating runbooks, tools, and documentation that help the team to respond to incidents proactively.
• Able to design and implement complex, but easily managed, automated infrastructure.
• A desire to share, teach, and learn as part of a team.
• AWS certifications are a plus.

Benefits

• Base salary range of $120,000 to $160,000.
• Compensation package includes salary, equity for all full-time employees, and an annual performance bonus.
• Comprehensive benefits package including employer matched retirement plan.
• Generously subsidized healthcare with 100% employer paid dental, vision, telemedicine, and virtual mental health counseling.
• Parental leave.
• Unlimited paid time off (PTO).
• Flexibility to work remotely on Fridays.