Principal Associate, Platform Engineer

Company: Capital One
Location: Grand Prairie
Posted on: January 15, 2022

Job Description:

Locations: TX - Plano, United States of America, Plano, TexasPrincipal Associate, Platform Engineer We are looking for an experienced software engineering technologist who is passionate about software development and automation that wants to be part of the team providing a centrally supported portfolio of scaled, integrated services in our cloud-hosted infrastructure. The role resides within a highly motivated, fast-paced team composed of engineers tasked with providing enterprise CI/CD tools that are used by software developers, quality engineers, data analysts and other technology users across Capital One.What Youll Do:

• Automate the provisioning of environments in AWS, building infrastructure from the ground up with Terraform, cooking up recipes for configuration management with Chef and deploying applications using public cloud infrastructure.
• Design and develop automation workflows, performing unit tests and conducting reviews to make sure your work is rigorously designed, elegantly coded, and effectively tuned for platform performance and resiliency, while constantly assessing the overall quality of delivered components.
• Develop automation tools, scripts or software for maintaining each platform, and to enable self-service capabilities for users.
• Clearly communicate technical information to stakeholders. Strong verbal and written communication skills are a must due to the dynamic nature of collaborations with leadership, vendors, and other engineering teams, solving complex business problems together.Basic Qualifications:
  • At least 2 years of experience working with GitHub
  • At least 2 years of experience working with public cloud infrastructure (either AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Platform)
  • At least 3 years of experience working with at least one of the following: CloudFormation, Terraform, Chef or AnsiblePreferred Qualifications:
    • Bachelor's Degree
    • 2+ years of experience administering GitHub Enterprise vendor software
    • 2+ years of experience implementing and operating production workloads in public cloud infrastructure, preferably with AWS
    • 3+ years building with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools (CloudFormation, Terraform, Chef or Ansible)
    • 3+ years of experience in software development or scripting, including deep knowledge of at least one of the following languages: Java, Ruby, GO, Python or Groovy
    • 3+ years of experience in application monitoring and log analytics tools (Datadog, New Relic, Splunk or ELK), with a solid understanding of how to implement effective automated application monitoring for mission critical production applications
    • 3+ years of professional experience in a technical leadership role, serving as a lead or manager of a large scale enterprise application or platform
    • Experience using version control systems and automated build tools for continuous integration and deployment (GitHub, Artifactory, Jenkins or Chef) in multiple recent projects
    • Experience leading multiple large-scale deployments of applications hosted on AWS, including automating every aspect of delivering those applications, and ongoing support of the full stack once in production
    • Experience digging deep to identify the root cause of production-impacting issues and driving the implementation of associated fixes and resolutionsAt this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.No agencies please. Capital One is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical and mental disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/assignment, citizenship, pregnancy or maternity, protected veteran status, or any other status prohibited by applicable national, federal, state or local law. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York Citys Fair Chance Act; Philadelphias Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Capital One Recruiting at 1-800-304-9102 or via email at RecruitingAccommodation@capitalone.com. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.For technical support or questions about Capital One's recruiting process, please send an email to Careers@capitalone.comCapital One does not provide, endorse nor guarantee and is not liable for third-party products, services, educational tools or other information available through this site.Capital One Financial is made up of several different entities. Please note that any position posted in Canada is for Capital One Canada, any position posted in the United Kingdom is for Capital One Europe and any position posted in the Philippines is for Capital One Philippines Service Corp. (COPSSC).

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