Vice President, DevOps Engineer

The anticipated salary range for this role is between $145,000.00 and $196,000.00. The specific salary offered to an applicant will be based on their individual qualifications, experiences, and an analysis of the current compensation paid in their geography and the market for similar roles at the time of hire. The role may also be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive award. In addition to cash compensation, SMBC offers a competitive portfolio of benefits to its employees.

Role Description

As a DevOps Engineer you will play a critical role binding the gap between development and operations. You will have a development background and work closely with our software engineering, QA, infrastructure and security teams to design, implement and maintain a robust and scalable platform solution to support mission-critical financial applications. Your expertise will ensure the seamless deployment of applications, while maintaining the highest levels of security, compliance and performance.

• Tooling development: help to build out the engineering platform that assists in improving developer experience and productivity.
• Platform development: help to build out the platform services.
• CICD Pipeline Management: design, develop and maintain Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipelines to streamline the software development process.
• Infrastructure as Code – Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform and Ansible to automate the provision and management of infrastructure.
• Monitoring & Logging: develop and maintain comprehensive monitoring and logging solutions to ensure the reliability and performance of production systems.
• Security & Compliance: collaborate with security teams to integrate security best practices into the DevOps processes, ensuring that all systems meet the stringent compliance requirements of the bank.
• Cloud and on-premise Infrastructure: manage both Cloud based (Azure) and on-premise (OpenShift/VM’s) infrastructure, ensuring high availability and disaster recovery readiness.
• Collaboration: work closely with development, QA, security and operations teams to ensure smooth and reliable application delivery and set best practice guidelines wherever possible.
• Environment Stability: take part in the DevOps team Rota to monitor alerts across environments, reporting on issues and improving the monitoring stack as required.
• Release and DR: deploy scheduled releases after EOD and DR weekend checkouts when required.

Qualifications and Skills

• At least 5 years as a developer (ideally Java)
• Strong Kubernetes knowledge and relevant experience
• Experience with monitoring and alerting technologies
• Strong IaC knowledge and relevant experience
• Experience with GoLang and React preferred
• Financial Industry knowledge
• Strong collaboration skills across engineering, QA, security, and operations
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (Master’s preferred)

SMBC’s employees participate in a Hybrid workforce model that provides employees with an opportunity to work from home, as well as, from an SMBC office. SMBC requires that employees live within a reasonable commuting distance of their office location. Prospective candidates will learn more about their specific hybrid work schedule during their interview process. Hybrid work may not be permitted for certain roles, including, for example, certain FINRA-registered roles for which in-office attendance for the entire workweek is required.

SMBC provides reasonable accommodations during candidacy for applicants with disabilities consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application process, please let us know at accommodations@smbcgroup.com.