Cloud Engineer

Description

Senior Platform / DevOps Engineer

The Role

If you are an experienced Platform or DevOps Engineer with a passion for designing and operating large-scale, cloud-native infrastructure using cutting-edge technologies, looking for a collaborative team environment where you will have a wealth of opportunities to innovate and learn, a career in Platform Engineering in Enterprise Technology may be right for you!

The Platform Engineering group within Fidelity's Enterprise Technology organization is seeking a Senior Platform / DevOps Engineer to build, automate, and operate large-scale event-driven platforms. In this role, you will apply a variety of technologies to deliver robust, self-service infrastructure and deployment pipelines. This position is a critical element to delivering Fidelity's promise of creating the best customer experiences in financial services.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

Primary Requirements - Kubernetes & DevOps (Must Have)

Bachelor's or Master's Degree in a technology-related field (e.g. Engineering, Computer Science, etc.) required.

5+ years of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating production Kubernetes clusters (self-managed or managed services such as EKS, AKS, GKE).

Deep expertise in Kubernetes internals: workload scheduling, RBAC, network policies, Helm/Kustomize, Operators, and cluster autoscaling.

Strong experience with DevOps practices and tooling: CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD / Flux GitOps), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible), and container image management (Docker, container registries).

Proven ability to build and maintain self-service developer platforms and golden-path templates on Kubernetes.

2+ years of experience operating workloads on Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including networking, IAM, and cost optimisation.

Strong knowledge of observability: metrics (Prometheus/Grafana), logging (ELK / OpenSearch), and distributed tracing.

Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd) and API gateway patterns.

Solid experience in Agile methodologies (Kanban and SCRUM).

Strong technical design and analysis skills; ability to deal with ambiguity and work in a fast-paced environment.

Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with strong collaboration skills across multiple teams.

Secondary Requirements - Java / Spring Boot (Important)

3+ years of experience developing microservices with Java and Spring Boot.

Strong understanding of microservices architecture, REST APIs, and event-driven design patterns.

Experience containerising and deploying Java applications to Kubernetes, including JVM tuning for container environments.

Familiarity with build tooling (Maven, Gradle) and code quality practices (unit/integration testing, static analysis).

Good to Have - Kafka & Event Streaming

Experience with Apache Kafka: topic design, consumer groups, offset management, and schema evolution (Avro / Protobuf with Schema Registry).

Familiarity with Kafka deployment and operations on Kubernetes (Strimzi Operator or Confluent Platform).

Exposure to stream processing frameworks such as Kafka Streams, Apache Flink, or Spark Structured Streaming.

The Team

The Platform Engineering team within Enterprise Data & Artificial Intelligence business unit is responsible for assisting in the governance, design and delivery of applications utilizing the Event Streaming and Message Queueing platforms. Our vision is to enhance and streamline the onboarding experience while ensuring the highest quality of application readiness for our users.

The Senior Platform / DevOps Engineer will help deliver values such as

Solution design, solving key technical challenges, and mentoring the team.

Building and supporting mission critical applications to provide the best customer experience

Exploring new technology trends and leveraging them to simplify our data ecosystem

Driving Innovation and leading the team to implement solutions with future thinking

Collaborating with internal and external teams to deliver technology solutions for the business needs

Guiding teams to improve development agility and productivity

Resolving technical roadblocks to the team and mitigating potential risks

Delivering system automation by setting up continuous integration/continuous delivery pipelines

Acting as a technical mentor to the team and bringing key knowledge and experience.

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Background Check : No

Drug Screen : No