Principal Cloud Platform Engineer

Salem Five is a growing regional financial services organization with a rich history of over 170 years. As an independent bank we are deeply rooted in the communities we serve and offer our employees successful and rewarding careers.

This position requires the ability to work in the Salem MA office.

Salem Five has more than 30 retail banking branches throughout Essex Middlesex Norfolk and Suffolk counties strong business banking capabilities an Insurance division a Wealth Management & Trust organization and a Mortgage Company that has provided homeownership to generations of families.

Salem Five believes deeply in supporting the communities in which we reside. Donations through our Charitable Foundation or events at the branch or location-level are an important part of our DNA. We would not be the company we are without our commitment to businesses and organizations that help the region thrive and to our employees. Come see what were all about.

JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include but are not limited to the following:

• Serve as senior hands-on engineer and escalation point for complex cloud infrastructure and production issues.
• Design implement and operate Azure platform services including compute storage networking identity security and shared services.
• Develop reusable platform standards and automation using Infrastructure as Code configuration management scripting APIs and CI/CD.
• Provide technical ownership for Entra ID Active Directory Windows Server DNS Group Policy certificates/PKI Microsoft 365 integration Azure Virtual Desktop Key Vault and SQL platform services.
• Lead enterprise backup recovery retention disaster recovery and cyber-resilience engineering and testing.
• Manage lifecycle availability capacity performance patching security and technical currency of cloud and on-premises platforms.
• Evaluate emerging cloud automation AI and platform-engineering capabilities based on security maturity cost value and supportability.
• Collaborate with IT leadership business partners technology teams and vendors; support budgeting licensing capacity planning vendor management cloud cost optimization ITSM and regulatory compliance.

Education/Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems Engineering or a related field and/or 8 years related experience and training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 8 years of progressively responsible experience in systems cloud infrastructure or platform engineering including 5 years hands-on with Microsoft Azure.
• Deep knowledge of Azure and Microsoft infrastructure including Entra ID Active Directory Windows Server DNS Group Policy certificates Microsoft 365 integration networking storage compute Key Vault and identity concepts.
• Strong PowerShell scripting API and automation experience.
• Hands-on Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform and/or Bicep/ARM source control and peer-reviewed deployment practices.
• Experience with Chef Puppet Ansible or comparable configuration-management tooling; Chef/Puppet preferred.
• Experience with Azure DevOps GitHub Actions or comparable CI/CD automation.
• Strong knowledge of Windows/Linux virtualization enterprise storage containers backup/recovery disaster recovery and cyber resilience; Rubrik strongly preferred.
• Strong troubleshooting documentation communication organizational and problem-solving skills with ability to balance reliability security cost technical debt and business needs.

Preferred Experience

• Rubrik administration including retention policy design Cloud Vault/archive SQL-aware protection recovery testing and cyber recovery.
• VMware vSphere and enterprise compute/storage; familiarity with Hyper-V Azure Local or other virtualization alternatives.
• Azure Virtual Desktop SQL PaaS containers/Kubernetes application delivery web applications APIs and hybrid networking.
• MuleSoft/API management; NinjaOne/Intune; or AWS/GCP exposure.
• Banking financial services or another regulated industry; familiarity with ITIL and SRE/platform-engineering practices.
• This business area will continue to evolve therefore prior management experience will be helpful and strongly considered.

Certificates Licenses Registrations

Relevant Microsoft Azure certification preferred. Additional cloud security automation/DevOps ITSM or infrastructure certifications are beneficial.

Benefits/Incentives :

We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your wellâbeing and success including medical dental and vision coverage; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; 401(k) matching; and tuition reimbursement. You will also enjoy additional perks such as our employee referral program annual holiday reception summer family outing and more.

Salary Range : $158796.00 to $269952.00

The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education qualifications certifications experience skills seniority location and performance. This range may be modified in the future.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those which must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; climb; or balance; and stoop kneel crouch or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

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