Principal Infrastructure Engineer ( AWS / Linux /DevOps )

Discover. A brighter future.

With us, you’ll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors: We Play to Win, We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. And we mean it — we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world's leading digital banking and payments companies. We value what makes you unique so that you have an opportunity to shine.

Come build your future, while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover.

At Discover, be part of a culture where diversity, teamwork and collaboration reign. Join a company that is just as employee-focused as it is on its customers and is consistently awarded for both. We’re all about people, and our employees are why Discover is a great place to work. Be the reason we help millions of consumers build a brighter financial future and achieve yours along the way with a rewarding career.

The Principal Infrastructure Engineer uses a vast repertoire of experience delivering high impact engineering solutions to work intuitively. This Engineer role knows where to look if something breaks and is key in solving challenges quickly. Principal Infrastructure Engineers are skilled in finding new ways to build technical capabilities and influencing the adoption of best practices.

Responsibilities

• Contributes to product delivery, influenced by strategic direction across Business Technology and enterprise including investment decisions (i.e. build vs buy) across multiple products. Uses automation, system tools, open source solutions, observability and 'security first' principles in daily work
• Contributes to team agile ceremonies, leads demos and presentations, helps new engineers learn established norms
• Bridges desired Business features to BT capabilities and executes ground work in requirement translations and design. Initiates detailed level solution design approaches across multiple domains, and guides team to achieve desired key software delivery capabilities using automated, coded enterprise and observability

• Participates in (internal/external) speaking and advocacy events. Coaches core technology communities and is actively engaged in understanding and researching new technologies
• Researches and adopts new technology solutions and ways to build technical capabilities
• Continues professional education and creates opportunities for broader engineering teams to learn industry best practices

Minimum Qualifications

At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:

• Bachelors – Computer Science
• 6+ Years – (Software) Engineering, DevOps or related
• Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of proficient on the Dreyfus engineering scale

Preferred Qualifications

Bonus Points If You Have:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
• Strong proven skills in working in a cloud environment such as AWS.
• Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code methodologies and proficient use of orchestration and configuration management tools such as Ansible, Terraform.
• Strong in Python Programming.
• Strong understanding and ability to write clean code
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or similar; Git/GitHub; Artifactory
• Strong technical understanding of data architecture, data quality and related technologies
• Strong Debugging and analyzing issues
• Proven skills in high availability and scalability design, as well as performance monitoring
• Experience in OpenShift.
• Experience as part of an Agile engineering or development team
• Exposure and / or Experience in providing on-call support on a rotation basis

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview

#Remote

#BI-Remote

#LI-KE

What are you waiting for? Apply today!

The same way we treat our employees is how we treat all applicants – with respect. Discover Financial Services is an equal opportunity employer {apply below}. We thrive on diversity & inclusion. You will be treated fairly throughout our recruiting process and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status in consideration for a career at Discover.