Principal Site Reliability Engineer

$85,000 - $179,000/Yr

Fidelity Investments - Jersey City, NJ

Full-time - Senior

Jersey City, NJ

Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

About the position

The Principal Site Reliability Engineer will be a key member of the TechOps SRE team, collaborating closely with engineering partners to drive initiatives from design to implementation. This role focuses on managing highly available multi-region Kubernetes environments on AWS EKS, supporting mission-critical workloads. The position offers an opportunity to refine technical skills, collaborate across teams, and influence the infrastructure strategies of Fidelity Digital Assets.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with engineering partners to enable and drive initiatives from design to implementation.
• Manage and maintain Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS.
• Build and deploy Docker images, including Docker Compose.
• Create and deploy Helm charts and libraries.
• Author and maintain declarative CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins Core.
• Craft and maintain logging, monitoring, and alerting capabilities using tools like Datadog and Splunk.
• Drive the design of highly available, secure, scalable microservices-based applications in AWS.
• Provide technical leadership to teams of Site Reliability Engineers and Cloud Engineers.
• Collaborate with risk, product, and engineering team leaders to deploy applications to the cloud.
• Promote a DevOps mentality and establish development standard methodologies for AWS infrastructure-as-code.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with AWS in a production environment.
• Experience building and deploying Docker images including Docker Compose.
• Production experience running Kubernetes workloads ideally on AWS EKS.
• Experience managing and maintaining Kubernetes Clusters on AWS EKS.
• Experience with Confluent or Kafka.
• Hands-on experience with Jenkins Core, including authoring and maintaining declarative CI/CD pipelines and libraries.
• Experience with monitoring tools e.g., CloudWatch, Datadog & Splunk Cloud.
• Proficiency with UNIX operating systems and shell scripting.
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), managing services and applications in a large AWS cross-account environment using IAM and federated SSO.
• Ability to communicate at all levels with strong written and verbal communications.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Apache or Confluent Kafka.
• Experience with CDN Providers e.g., Akamai.
• Programming experience, e.g., Python preferred.
• Experience with distributed version control systems, Git preferred.
• Experience with the agile software development lifecycle and Kanban preferred.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health care coverage and emotional well-being support.
• Market-leading retirement plans.
• Generous paid time off and parental leave.
• Charitable giving employee match program.
• Educational assistance including student loan repayment and tuition reimbursement.