Principal Site Reliability Engineer

$85,000 - $179,000/Yr

Fidelity Investments - Jersey City, NJ

Full-time - Mid Level

Jersey City, NJ

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

About the position

As a member of the TechOps SRE team, you'll work closely with our engineering partners to help enable and drive initiatives from design to implementation. Our highly available multi-region Kubernetes (AWS EKS) environments are best-in-class and central to our enterprise-grade infrastructure strategy. These growing environments currently support numerous mission-critical workloads. In this exciting role, you'll have the opportunity to further develop and refine your skills, collaborate across numerous Fidelity teams, and continue to grow in a fun, collaborative, and rapidly changing environment. This is a phenomenal opportunity to have a direct impact on the emerging strategies of our infrastructure and deployments, while at the same time, helping enable the expansion of our business.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with engineering partners to drive initiatives from design to implementation.
• Manage and maintain multi-region Kubernetes environments 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.
• Monitor and maintain logging, monitoring, and alerting capabilities using tools like Datadog and Splunk.
• Provide technical leadership to teams of Site Reliability Engineers and Cloud Engineers.
• Collaborate with risk, product, and engineering team leaders to ensure project success.
• Promote a DevOps mentality and establish development standard methodologies for AWS infrastructure-as-code.
• Drive the initiative to craft and deploy applications to the cloud.

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), having managed services and applications in a large AWS cross-account environment using IAM and federated SSO.
• Ability to communicate at all levels with a track record of strong written and verbal communications.

Nice-to-haves

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