Software Engineer - DevOps (Hybrid - Charlotte, NC or Scottsdale, AZ or Los Angeles, CA)

$78,000 - $145,000/Yr

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group - Charlotte, NC

Full-time

Hybrid - Charlotte, NC

Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

About the position

Join us on our mission to create a completely new, 100% digital bank that truly serves customers' best interests. We are a close-knit and fun-loving team of seasoned financial services professionals who came together for the challenge of building a bank from scratch - and we are committed to doing it all the right way (from technology infrastructure to modern marketing to customer experience). The anticipated salary range for this role is between $78,000.00 and $145,000.00. The specific salary offered to an applicant will be based on their individual qualifications, experiences, and an analysis of the current compensation paid in their geography and the market for similar roles at the time of hire. The role may also be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive award. In addition to cash compensation, SMBC offers a competitive portfolio of benefits to its employees. We work with the flexibility and speed of a start-up. But we also have significant stability and capital from being part of the SMBC Group (Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation). SMBC is the second largest bank in Japan and the 12th largest bank in the world with operations in over forty countries. And SMBC is committed to disrupting the US marketplace with ground-breaking products. It is the best of both worlds, and we are seeking proven marketing leaders to propel us towards a national launch. We have both the ambitious growth plans and the 'patient capital' necessary to execute a multi-year plan. Join us on the journey to deliver an exciting concept of evolved banking.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, monitor, and manage end-to-end DevOps processes, including Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), automated testing, deployment pipelines, and release management.
• Adopt and manage cloud-based Infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code tools/technologies such as Terraform, Azure ARM templates and GCP deployment templates.
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to review application architectures, ensuring that they are scalable, resilient, and designed for easy deployment and management.
• Create and maintain Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery automation using Azure DevOps for cloud services such as Azure Function App, Frontdoor, API Management, Azure App Config, Azure Kubernetes (AKS) etc.
• Identify and evaluate DevOps & DevSecOps tools and practices that align with organization's goals and integrate them effectively into the development and operations workflows.
• Implement security best practices throughout the development and deployment process, ensuring compliance with industry regulations and internal policies.
• Collaborate with Security teams and implement DevSecOps practices.
• Address vulnerabilities identified in the cloud space.
• Forecast resource requirements and plan for scaling infrastructure as needed, optimize resource allocation to minimize costs.
• Setup redundancy for critical applications on cloud platforms to ensure high availability.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and work with development teams to optimize code and infrastructure.
• Plan and implement disaster recovery & backup strategies to minimize downtime in case of failures.
• Manage and support Azure and GCP workloads.
• Provide hands-on technical expertise during service/business impacting events.
• Continuously assess and refine the DevOps architecture and processes based on feedback, industry best practices, and evolving technology trends.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation for configurations, processes, and procedures.
• Bring thought leadership to the table and introduce enterprise capabilities, tools, and processes.
• Participate in periodic 24x7 on-call duties.
• Share support responsibilities for critical applications and customer journeys onboarded to SRE including remediation of issues through Agile, conduct blameless postmortems, root cause analysis, and introduce continuous improvement solving problems once and for all with the goal of no repeats.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in implementing DevOps and DevSecOps practices.
• Skilled in designing & implementing DevOps practices for Cloud Platforms (Azure, and/or GCP) using tools like Azure DevOps, Gitlab CI/CD, Jenkins etc.
• Skilled in working with containerization technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.).
• Experienced in building, managing, and troubleshooting Cloud Networking and Security Architecture.
• Experienced in building, managing, deploying, and troubleshooting cloud services such as Azure Function App, API Management, Azure App Config, Azure Kubernetes etc. (and/or GCP equivalent).
• Experience setting up monitoring and alerts for cloud infrastructure, platform, applications and database.
• Experience with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk APM, Splunk, Dynatrace, DataDog, Elastic Stack/ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch, AZURE Monitoring.
• Understanding of cloud security best practices, including code scanning tools, vulnerability assessments, and compliance checks.
• Knowledge of programming languages such as Java, Microservices, JavaScript, Node.js.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.

Nice-to-haves

• Candidates with relevant certifications such as Microsoft Certified DevOps Engineer, Certified Kubernetes Administrator and/or Public Cloud Architect level certifications preferred.
• Proficiency in creating and managing infrastructure using IAC tools like Terraform.
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Incident Management System experience.
• Configuration Management Tools experience.
• Experience with Agile Scrum (Daily Standup, Sprint Planning and Sprint Retrospective meetings) and Kanban.

Benefits

• Competitive salary range between $78,000.00 and $145,000.00.
• Annual discretionary incentive award eligibility.
• Comprehensive benefits portfolio offered by SMBC.