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Job Description:
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.
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The Infrastructure Engineer role includes building, managing, and supporting core infrastructure and security services in middleware space to deliver highly available and scalable services, automating toil to minimize manual work and meet security and compliance objectives in all aspects of the secure middleware ecosystem, perform basic system administration tasks, and serve on the on-call team as an escalation contact for service incidents.
Responsible for the technical design, development, installation, monitoring and ongoing support and maintenance of a diverse set of middleware technologies including WebSphere, Apache, Tomcat, and Jboss. The role is a technical, hands-on opportunity with a heavy focus on automation, resilient design and deployment of middleware ready systems and services through Infrastructures as code process. This role collaborates with Product teams internal and external to Infrastructure Services to provide world class products and services in support of our application development community and our business as whole. This role also requires working hands-on knowledge with containerized platforms including Kubernetes, Docker and OpenShift to support our future milestones.
The 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. Infrastructure Engineers are skilled in finding new ways to build technical capabilities and influencing the adoption of best practices. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.
Responsibilities
- Strong engineering experience in installation and maintenance of WebSphere application server, Tomcat, and Apache platforms
- Implement DevOps practices through GitOps framework
- Implement Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, Python, Chef, Ansible, and Bash)
- Achieves product commitments (and influences others to do the same) by using informal leadership & highly developed communication skills and contributes to or led technology communities
- Uses automation, system tools, open-source solutions, observability and 'security first' principles in daily work
- Achieves product commitments (and influences others to do the same) by using informal leadership & highly developed communication skills and contributes to or led technology communities
- 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
- Initiates high level solution design approaches, and guides team to achieve desired key software delivery capabilities using automated, coded enterprise and observability
- Participates in internal speaking and advocacy events
- Supports research activities to adopt new technology solutions in ways of developing new capabilities
- Continues professional education and creates opportunities for core product teams to learn engineering best practices
- Coaches immediate chapter and actively fosters the adoption of new technologies
Minimum Qualifications
At a minimum, here's what we need from you:
- Bachelors - Computer Science or related
- 3+ Years - (Software) Engineering, DevOps or related
- Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of competent on the Dreyfus engineering scale
Preferred Qualifications
Bonus Points If You Have:
- Experience in handling production systems running middleware software
- Technical hands-on using containerized platforms including Kubernetes, Docker and OpenShift.
- Possess technical knowledge on AWS and GCP cloud technologies.
- Scripting and automation experience using python, bash or any other scripting language.
- Comfortable working on agile-based teams comprised of team members with diverse skill sets (e.g. Quality Assurance Engineers, User Experience Designers, Software Engineers / Architects)
- Capable of collaborating with stakeholders and project leaders to understand requirements, deliverables, and set expectations on tasks that you will be responsible for.
- Consistently demonstrates follow-through in honoring commitments to customers and colleagues. Accepts the challenge of unfamiliar tasks
- Demonstrates growth mindset, enthusiastic about learning new technologies quickly and applying the gained knowledge to address business problems.
External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.
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Application Deadline:
The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Apr-08-2024. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed.
Compensation:
The base pay for this position generally ranges between $86,500.00 to $146,100.00. Additional incentives may be provided as part of a market competitive total compensation package. Factors, such as but not limited to, geographical location, relevant experience, education, and skill level may impact the pay for this position.
Benefits:
We also offer a range of benefits and programs based on eligibility. These benefits include:
- Paid Parental Leave
- Paid Time Off
- 401(k) Plan
- Medical, Dental, Vision, & Health Savings Account
- STD, Life, LTD and AD&D
- Recognition Program
- Education Assistance
- Commuter Benefits
- Family Support Programs
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Learn more at mydiscoverbenefits.com.
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All Discover employees place our customers at the very center of our work. To deliver on our promises to our customers, each of us contribute every day to a culture that values compliance and risk management.
Discover is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Discover is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or other legally protected status. (Know Your Rights & Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision)
Discover complies with federal, state, and local laws applicable to qualified individuals with disabilities and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations. If you require a reasonable accommodation to search for a position, to complete an application, and/or to participate in an interview, please email HireAccommodation@discover.com. Any information you provide regarding your accommodation needs will be kept confidential and will only be used to determine and provide necessary accommodation.