Cloud DevOps Engineer (Remote)

Join our mission to create a completely new, 100% digital bank that uses consumer feedback to truly meet customers’ best interests. Jenius Bank, a division of SMBC MANUBANK, and a member of SMBC Group, is being built by a close-knit and fun-loving team of financial services professionals and technology experts who came together for the challenge of building a full-service digital bank from scratch. We’re committed to doing it the right way for the customer and are growing rapidly. To learn more about our relationship to our parent company, visit our website.

The anticipated salary range for this role is between $113,000.00 and $164,000.00. The specific salary offered to an applicant will be based on their individual qualification, experiences, and analysis of current compensation paid in their geography and the market for similar roles at time of hire. The role may also be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive award. In addition to cash compensation, SMBC MANUBANK offers a competitive portfolio of benefits to its employees.
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Jenius Bank is strategically scaling up a portfolio of products and building extraordinary experiences. In 2023, we launched our first two products reaching $1 billion in deposits and over $700 million in loans, all before Jenius Bank’s first anniversary. We don’t plan to slow down, with ambitious growth plans and the capital necessary to execute a multi-year strategic plan. We have a start-up mindset paired with SMBC Group’s 400 years of history. SMBC Group has more than 150 offices and 86,000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries and is committed to creating new business to better serve customers in the rapidly evolving digital environment. Join us on the journey that has caught the attention of the Banking Dive, and more to reinvent banking where smarter banking translates to a richer life.

SUMMARY:

We are looking for a candidate with a proven background defining cloud infrastructure and implementing cloud engineering solutions with a goal towards automation and security first approach. As the Cloud Engineer, you will build/deploy cloud infrastructure components in hybrid cloud environment including Azure and GCP. In this role, you will lead implementing solutions with a process-driven view, as well as scheduled maintenance and/or updates to existing structures.

PRINICPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Cloud Engineer role will deliver on the following responsibilities:
• Lead design, implementation, and administration of cloud-based infrastructure with automation and security first approach.
• Build life cycle automation for various public cloud services using Terraform and other Infrastructure as code tools – Ansible etc.
• Build security as a first-class citizen in everything we do from Cloud Infrastructure, OS, VM, Containers, Kubernetes, APIs etc.
• Vulnerability management with strict SLA is a massive focus here at the bank, establish vulnerability management process, scalable automation to constantly keep prod and non prod environments safe/secured.
• Partner with InfoSec team to effectively communicate, educate, bring requirements to execution and deliver.
• Build the DevOps and DevSecOps program vision and strategy covering all aspects from architecture, design, development, and deployment – CICD and Secure CICD.
• Produced excellent documentation, deployment diagrams/architecture etc.
• Build various KPI for cloud Infrastructure and effectively communicate to leadership team.
• Train junior engineers in the team and mentor them.
• OnDemand Production support – rotation basis.
• Lead collaboration with Development team to make sure business focus applications are delivered on-time with specific Infrastructure needs/architecture.
• Optimizes cloud environments for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.

POSITION SPECIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent working experience, Masters preferred in Computer Science.
• Minimum 5 years of experience supporting Cloud Infrastructure an/or Security
• Experience designing, building, and implementing distributed cloud architecture within cloud environments. Azure and/or GCP preferred.
• Terraform experience building complex cloud Infrastructure, ability to write modules, best practice, state files management etc. is required.
• GitOps model,  solid understanding of various branching strategy is required.
• Experience with full DevOps cycle spanning across - Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Security, Observability, CICD, Secure CICD, ProdOps etc.
• Solid understanding of Linux and/or Windows fundamentals.
• Extensive experience in designing and implementing large scale platforms with high resiliency, availability, and reliability using public cloud infrastructure.
• Experience in implementing security architecture and best practices in cloud infrastructure.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
• Team player, ability to work within team and also be independent.
• Excellent verbal and written skills, ability to communicate clearly.
• Innovator and one who keeps tabs on various industry trends, cloud native advances and bring to team(s) attention for POC, Implementation.
• Preferred:
• Advanced Azure/ GCP certifications
• Infrastructure security scan tools experience (e.g. Azure Defender, Container Scan,  API security, Perimeter scan etc.) is desired
• Solid knowledge of Kubernetes, API GW, BigQuery Infra etc. is desired

EOE STATEMENT
SMBC provides reasonable accommodations during candidacy for applicants with disabilities consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application process, please let us know at accommodations@smbcgroup.com.

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