Head of Infrastructure and Platform Engineering

Company: U.S. Bank
Location: Jackson
Posted on: October 14, 2020

Job Description:

The Head of Infrastructure and Platform Engineering will ensure all aspects of our cloud strategy are executable through infrastructure and platform services. Further the function delivers the on-premise strategy for delivering critical middleware and operational automation. The function will deliver reliable services by creating a vision for the future of our infrastructure and operations. That vision will ensure that our operations, product delivery, customer success, and the experience of our engineers are all tightly integrated. The leader will: Align the team around a shared roadmap that shapes the future of our infrastructure and operations for both public and on-premise cloud capabilities through infrastructure as code and cloud native technologies Ensure high availability of the infrastructure and platforms through designing thoughtful automatoion, monitoring, release practices, resiliency patterns, and Work with our support organization to ensure we are able to resolve customer support issues within SLAs Work closely with our security team to develop policies that ensure our systems are kept secure, and meet regulatory requirements Partner with product managers, software engineers, customer success, and business leads to define your teams roadmap ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES Strategic planning for all compute, network, middleware, and virtualization infrastructure including cloud technologies. Align the team around a shared roadmap that shapes the future of our infrastructure and operations Automating away toil and refining processes to allow us to scale our infrastructure and platform service footprints across our hybrid cloud and on-premise environments with increasing efficiency Evolving and supporting the infrastructure, platforms, services, and tooling that our cloud and on-premise applications depend on ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS Responsible for delivering similar solutions for a financial services firm through a phase of significant technology modernization Managed sizeable infrastructure engineer and/or application delivery of infrastructure software at a scale similar to ours including management of teams larger than 300 Worked to operationalize complex software and infrastructure at scale Expertise in one or more of the major public clouds: AWS, Azure, GCP Five years experience in a Cloud Engineering role or related position Experience with deployment systems across major Cloud vendors including AWS, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure Negotiation with cloud vendors and tool providers to enhance use and efficiency in cloud adoption Applied experience and knowledge of Infrastructure as Code Strong understanding of networking and internet protocols and distributed systems Experience delivering infrastructure-as-a-service through technologies such as VMware vCloud, OpenStack, Google Compute Engine, and Microsoft Azure. Experience delivering platform-as-a-service through technologies such as Cloud Foundry, OpenShift, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, or Google App Engine. Experience leading teams engineering middleware technologies including security authentication, messaging and queuing (IBM MQ preferred), application and web server, and database technologies (Oracle, SQL Server, and DB2 preferred). Experience leading teams engineering automation frameworks leveraging messaging frameworks such as simple object access protocol (SOAP), web services, representational state transfer (REST), applicaton programming interface (API), or JavaScript object notation (JSON). ACCOUNTABILITIES High level of independent significant decision-making Significant experience managing sizeable technology infrastructure budgets in excess of $150M Influencing and gaining support for technology strategies that create value for the lines of business through improved speed to market, reduced costs, and improved risk controls Instituting practices that reliably allow for speed and control for high volume changes and releases in a very complex technology ecosystem Qualifications: 5 - 7 years leading teams responsible for network, security, hosting (server, operating system, and virtualization), and/or middleware engineering in large, geographically dispersed data centers 3 - 5 years leading teams responsible for application development and delivery 3 - 5 years leading teams responsible for engineering and delivering hosting technologies through VMware technologies that leverage advanced automation capabilities through vSphere and vRealize 3 - 5 years experience leading teams responsible for designing and implementing security controls in a highly regulated industry Demonstrated experience driving organizational change from traditional infrastructure delivery to highly automated, software engineering based practices breaking down siloes and cultural barriers that impede speed and flow Job: Executive Primary Location: United States Shift: 1st - Daytime Average Hours Per Week: 40 Requisition ID: U.S. Bank is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to creating a diverse workforce. U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse workforce. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, among other factors. Categories - Banking Posted: 2020-10-08 Expires: 2020-11-07 U.S. Bank

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