Full Job Description
We are hiring an Application / Platform Operations Senior Infrastructure Engineer to take ownership of a diverse set of enterprise and business applications, open-source software, and platform components that currently lack clear support and governance. This role will focus on stabilizing, documenting, maintaining, and improving reliability across a portfolio of products spanning open-source, vendor, and internally developed technologies.
The engineer will work across AWS, Kubernetes, Linux and Windows environments, troubleshooting lifecycle issues, implementing monitoring and patching practices, and establishing operational standards. This role requires strong problem-solving, system-level thinking, and the ability to bring structure to poorly documented or unmanaged systems.
The primary purpose of this role is to establish ownership, improve operational maturity, and ensure ongoing supportability for critical applications and platform services. This position will also have technical leadership responsibilities for work done by the team.
Job Description
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job. Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below. Specific activities may change from time to time.
Works to achieve operational targets with major impact on the infrastructure engineering department or job area results and contributes to the development of goals for area of responsibility.
Designs, builds, manages, and implements enterprise infrastructure technology platforms and systems across cloud, network, database, storage, platform, computing, or middleware domains.
Develops and applies automation, monitoring, and optimization techniques to ensure high availability and performance of infrastructure.
Take ownership of applications and platforms that lack defined support, documentation, or operational processes
Perform system discovery and analysis to understand application architecture, dependencies, and runtime environments
Create and maintain runbooks, support documentation, and operational procedures
Provide day-to-day support, including monitoring, troubleshooting, and incident resolution
Perform root cause analysis and implement corrective/preventative actions
Manage and maintain systems across Linux and Windows environments
Apply patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management practices to ensure systems remain secure and supported
Implement and improve monitoring, alerting, and logging capabilities
Collaborate with infrastructure, security, and application teams to resolve issues and align on standards
Identify and reduce operational risk, including outdated software, unsupported versions, and lack of redundancy-also identifying product alternatives with a better support capability.
Support environment standardization efforts (e.g., containerization, automation, infrastructure-as-code where appropriate)
Identify and implement product rationalization and the consolidation of similar products.
Contribute to establishing team-wide standards for ownership, governance, and support models
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, a related field, or equivalent education, training, and work-related experience.
2. Minimum of 7 years of professional experience in infrastructure engineering.
3. Advanced knowledge of enterprise infrastructure technologies including cloud, network, database, storage, platform, computing, and middleware.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience working with open-source technologies (e.g., Java-based tools and libraries, external repositories like Maven, web servers, integration platforms)
Experience with Artifactory and Xray scanning
Experience with Kubernetes and Container pipelines
Experience with AWS cloud platforms
Automation-programming skills (e.g., Java, PowerShell, Python)
Experience with CI/CD pipelines or infrastructure-as-code (GitLab, Terraform, Ansible, etc.)
Understanding of security and vulnerability management practices
Experience with web and application servers, integration platforms, and messaging systems
Experience leading technical work and
Master's degree in a relevant technical discipline.
Experience in the financial services industry.