DevOps Engineer

Overview

Job Description: At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day. Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve. Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations. At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Job Description

The DevOps Engineer works together with a project team to deliver all the infrastructure and its supporting elements in a timely and efficient manner to ensure the best project outcomes. The DevOps Engineer works closely with Architects and customers to identify the low-level details needed to facilitate the implementation, and work together with Subject Matter Experts across the many infrastructure teams at Bank of America (Middleware, DBAs, SAs, Network, Load Balancing, Storage, Access Management, etc.) to ensure the successful builds. Strong interpersonal and technical skills are required, as is the desire and ability to constantly learn new things.

This job is responsible for configuring complex software delivery automation. Key responsibilities include ensuring software deployments are configured to meet access, ownership, and authentication standards. This job may modify code for software deployment automation and ensures software promotion pipelines for complex/high availability applications follow Continuous Delivery best practices. Job expectations include the ability to integrate development, testing practices, software delivery tools, and runtime application standards at the bank.

Responsibilities

• Configures and maintains the set of tools and services that provide Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) services and validates access control mechanisms for the Software and Infrastructure Engineering team throughout the software development lifecycle
• Reviews the configuration of applications servers to confirm that CI/CD service platform onboarding pre-requisites are available and configured properly
• Monitors and responds to alerts based on the key performance indicators (KPI) for the services supporting CI/CD and escalated events and issues from DevOps Engineers, creating issues and action-plan summaries for stakeholders
• Mentors and clarifies issues and practices for DevOps Engineers
• Works with Infrastructure, Solutions Engineers, and Site Reliability Engineers to understand changes in CI/CD service platform components and behaviors and planned changes in monitoring and alerting capabilities
• Responds to risk or audit identified issues with access control processed designed for compliance with firm separation of duties practices, and software release management standards and policies
• Executes change tickets for CI/CD service onboarding and decommissioning using approved change management processes as scheduled by Software or Infrastructure Engineers

Primary Skills

• Terraform
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with TerraForm and AWS
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Experience with Terraform Enterprise or Terraform Cloud
• Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code principles
• Experience with Git and version control workflows
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline)
• Understanding of container technologies (Docker, ECS, EKS)
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging solutions
• Strong Excel and Visio skills
• Scripting ability in Bash, Python, or similar languages
• Experience with secrets management and infrastructure security
• Understanding of networking concepts on AWS
• Experience with configuration management tools
• Understanding of software development lifecycle

• Ability to design architectural solutions for complex technology problems using available and emerging technologies
• Ability to work with various departments in a large organization to facilitate the orderly execution of a proposed project plan

Desired Experience

Desired Experience with the majority of the infrastructure types listed below:

• OS management experience (Windows and Linux)
• Middleware (Apache, Weblogic, Websphere, IIS, etc.)
• Databases (Postgres, RDS, Redis , Oracle, MSSQL)
• Load Balancing (F5, AVI, Nginx, etc.)
• Network (TCPIP, Firewalls, DNS, etc.)
• Storage (Local, SAN, NAS, s3, etc.)
• Active Directory and access management
• Cloud infrastructure and virtualization
• Up to date understanding of best practices regarding system security measures
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience
• Ansible experience
• Scripting (BASH, Powershell, etc.) experience
• Container technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.)

Skills

• Analytical Thinking
• Collaboration
• DevOps Practices
• Result Orientation
• Solution Delivery Process
• Adaptability
• Application Development
• Influence
• Innovative Thinking
• Project Management
• Solution Design
• Stakeholder Management

Shift

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week

40

Pay Transparency details

US - NJ - Jersey City - 101 Hudson St - 101 Hudson (NJ2101), US - NJ - Pennington - 1300 American Blvd - Hopewell Bldg 3 (NJ2130) Pay and benefits information Pay range $107,000.00 - $145,000.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set. Discretionary incentive eligible This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company. Benefits This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.