Cloud Platform Solutions Engineer

Summary

At BOK Financial, our success starts with our incredible talent. Our Technical Operations department currently has an opening for a talented Engineer to join our Cloud Platform Solutions group. You will be in a fast-paced environment that will provide challenges, excitement, and gratification.  If you’re ready to grow your career with a leading provider of sophisticated financial solutions, you’ve come to the right place.

Job Description

The IT Engineer IV – Cloud Platform Solutions will be responsible for the implementation of CI/CD pipelines and automation technologies and will involve significant development as part of this role.  They will be responsible for working collaboratively with multiple teams to implement highly available and secure cloud technologies. This role is also responsible for continuous monitoring and optimization of the cloud implementation for efficiencies and continuous support of, and collaboration with, other teams and projects, particularly DevOps, platform and automation teams. The person in this role must be a highly collaborative, creative and intellectually curious individual who is passionate about forming and implementing cutting-edge cloud computing capabilities. Extensive engineering experience is required as this role provides tier 3 support for technology teams in the organization.

Team Culture

Our mission is to empower our company, teammates and customers through the delivery of resilient and customer-centric technology. We achieve this by leveraging our expertise in technology and deep understanding of our business units.

How You'll Spend Your Time

•   You will build secure cloud solutions in major public clouds such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services 
•   You will design and implement advanced cloud architectures, including multi-cloud and hybrid solutions. 
•   You will show willingness and ability to take a “code first” approach to fully automate the deployment and management of cloud infrastructure and environments using Terraform, Chef, Azure DevOps, Azure Policy and other tools. 
•   You will strategize, consult, and prototype alongside other engineers to implement best practices and solutions for applications utilizing CI/CD and the cloud. 
•   You will evangelize distributed version control and trunk-based development practices, pipelines and infrastructure and release automation. 
•   You will maintain strong knowledge of Identity Management including Azure AD, Azure Resource roles and access reviews 
 

Education & Experience Requirements

The required level of knowledge is normally acquired through completion of a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field and 5-7 years of IT work experience in systems administration or equivalent work related experience of 9-11 years.
•    Strong experience in cloud architecture, infrastructure design, and deployment including experience with Azure, and AWS PaaS and IaaS services. 
•    Strong experience in designing, building, and optimizing automated pipelines with automated testing and automated security controls. 
•    Experience designing, implementing, CI/CD pipelines and tooling.
•    General knowledge of Kubernetes including installation, troubleshooting deployments, nodes, pods, certificates and RBAC 
•    Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
•    Understanding of IP Networking, subnets, ports, CIDR notation and DNS 
•    Help establish and maintain a culture of learning through the development and sharing of skills, knowledge, process and tools; combat traditional silos that create “us and them” environments.
•    Exceptional critical thinking and communication skills, with a passion for leveraging documentation as a tool for constant improvement. 
•    Hands-on experience with Pipeline Automation: Azure DevOps (YAML, ARM), Terraform, Jenkins, Chef, Octopus Deploy or other similar tools. 
•    Code Scanning: use of tools such as SonarQube, Checkmarx, Kube-Bench, or similar 
•    Source Code repos: User level and demonstrated knowledge of Git including cloning, branching and other regular commands. 
•    High level programming languages: Java, C#, Python, Go, or similar. 
•    Scripting: PowerShell, Bash 
•    Database Technologies (one or more of the following): Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, NoSQL 
•    Knowledge and experience with Metrics and Monitoring: New Relic, Splunk, or other SIEM tool 
•    Demonstrated knowledge of secrets management in the cloud using solutions such as Hashicorp Vault or Azure Key Vault.
•    Knowledge and experience implementing Cloud Architecture principles that improve security, reliability, performance efficiency and cost optimization.
•    Experienced with enterprise systems integration and deployments.
•    Expert critical thinking skills and ability to work collaboratively and/or provide leadership. 
•    Ability to maintain knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; participating in professional organizations.
•    Expert understanding of network, systems, storage and cloud technologies 
•    Strong written and oral communication skills. 
•    Self-motivated and demonstrated patience and overall courteous behavior when interfacing with BOK Financial workforce. 
•    Ability to travel and work after hours when required.