Lead Associate Principal, Software Engineering: DevOps
Core
Drive site reliability, system observability, and operational excellence for a financial market utility's platform by managing CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and incident response.
Role type
Lead Associate Principal, Software Engineering: DevOps
Builds
Multi-region Kubernetes and Kafka clusters, automated infrastructure platforms, and observability frameworks for high-performance financial clearing systems.
Domain
Financial services / Cloud Infrastructure / Site Reliability Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure
Required skills
Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, AWS EC2, Kafka, Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, PagerDuty, OpsGenie, Chaos engineering, microservices architecture, cloud networking, API development, SQL/NoSQL, Java/Python/Scala/Golang, TOGAF, enterprise architecture design
Preferred skills
AWS Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer certification, Kubernetes or Kafka certification, Google Cloud Professional SRE certification, Project/program management certifications
Technologies
Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, AWS, Kafka, Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, PagerDuty, OpsGenie, Chaos Monkey, Gremlin, LitmusChaos, JSON, Protobuf, Avro, Git, Artifactory
Responsibilities
Guide CI/CD pipeline implementation in Kubernetes; direct review and execution of Terraform and Ansible automation; setup multi-region infrastructure platforms; define and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and Error Budgets; lead blameless post-mortems; design observability frameworks; drive toil reduction initiatives; embed reliability requirements in SDLC; monitor application performance; create deployment and reliability plans; devise implementation architecture with Enterprise Architecture teams; promote security standards; collaborate on access management and least privilege strategies; partner on release testing; own incident response runbooks and on-call rotations; conduct capacity planning; implement failover scenarios; confer on connectivity plans; enable agile practices; develop technical infrastructure documentation
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with strategic oversight