Senior Cloud & Software Applications Engineer

Your Opportunity

At Schwab, you're empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us "challenge the status quo" and transform the finance industry together.

We are looking for a driven, results-oriented Senior Cloud & Software Applications Engineer who shares our passion for technology, innovation, and quality.

Our main goal here at Schwab is to transform people's lives by changing the way the world invests.

You will be a senior member of our engineering team that is responsible for developing automated deployment scripts used by Application Development teams to deploy sand box, test, and production environments into cloud environments.

Expect to collaborate closely with architecture, product owners, and application development teams to build new features, drive technical infrastructure direction, create automation capabilities, and build Disaster Recovery mechanisms to ensure efficient reliable environments for company products to operate in.

• Partner with Solution Architects and Platform Architects to ensure implementations meet the solution architecture and design.
• Contribute to the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of critical, high-volume data management applications using Cloud technologies.
• Ability to interact, listen and communicate successfully with business partners and internal technology teams.
• Ensure the timely delivery of high-quality engineering solutions.
• Analyze a target system design and decompose the functionality into incremental deliverable milestones.
• Coordinate across multiple functional areas to deliver a solution that meets all applicable standards.
• Lead and develop junior members of the engineering team, including performing code reviews and providing feedback.
• Support your solutions throughout all phases of the software development lifecycle.

What you have

Required Skills :

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Cyber Security, related degree, OR related practical experience
• 7+ years professional experience in software development.
• Minimum of 4+ years highly technical experience with cloud design, build, and operation in Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Implementation experience with cloud-based technologies across Google and / or Amazon, including experience developing on top of cloud provider service offerings.
• Expertise in Terraform. Knowledge of Ansible, Salt or similar automation tools are a benefit as all provisioning includes Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Strong programming knowledge and experience developing in one or more automation languages (Bash, Python, PowerShell, Golang etc.)
• Familiarity with SCM and DevOps tool suites and CI / CD best practices; examples include Git (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, etc.

Bamboo, Jenkins, Concourse etc.

• Experience in the development of policy and operational processes to ensure high availability and service of entire technology stack Experience with supporting mission critical, 24x7 systems.
• Working knowledge of Agile / Scrum, with a strong understanding of Agile development best practices and experience using Jira or other agile work tracking system.

Preferred Skills :

• Must be able to quickly grasp complex concepts and learn new technologies.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Cloud Provider Certification is a plus.
• Experience in the Financial Services industry is a plus.
6 days ago