Senior Systems Engineer

Fidelity Investments

• $110K — $130K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science or related field
  • At least 6 years of experience in sophisticated production environments, both on-prem and cloud
  • Experience with mainframe development tools (COBOL, CICS, db2, JCL) and writing COBOL/Native stored procedures
  • Knowledge of Stock Plan Services (SPS) preferred
  • Familiarity with monitoring tools like CloudWatch, Datadog, and ELK stack
  • Proficient in creating dashboards in Datadog and Splunk
  • Experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub, Jenkins, Docker) and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)

Responsibilities

  • Support testing teams across multiple environments to enhance environment stability
  • Coordinate responses to environment issues in line with project roadmaps
  • Drive resolution of incidents in a customer technical support model
  • Lead collaboration with Infrastructure, Engineering, and Operations to ensure alignment across business groups
  • Identify and act on stability opportunities based on data analysis
  • Mentor team members and facilitate cross-functional communication
  • Execute plans for technical standardization and process improvements

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development and training
  • Collaborative work environment with cross-regional teams
  • Engagement with cutting-edge technologies and processes
  • Focus on work-life balance as part of onsite transition strategy
  • Observation of best practices in engineering disciplines
Full Job Description
Job Description:

The Role

The Workplace Investment (WI) Stability Optimization CoE is looking for a utility player with strong communication, highly customer obsessed, proven engineering and multiple years production support experience. In this role the individual will play a vital role in supporting our testing teams across multiple test environments and will be responsible for leading the environment stability in line with the WI COE group's roadmap and aligning to WI and needs of other business groups within Fidelity. We do this by coordinating the response to environment issues while also supporting our applications in a customer facing test environment and driving to resolution in a customer technical support model.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

  • A Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Software engineering or related field
  • At least 6 years of experience working in sophisticated production environment, on-Prem and Cloud
  • Confirmed experience of mainframe development/tools including COBOL, CICS, db2, JCL, VSAM, MQ, etc. and writing COBOL/Native stored procedures.
  • Having business knowledge of Stock Plan Services(SPS) is preferred
  • Experience with monitoring/observability tools such as CloudWatch, Datadog/Splunk, ELK stack.
  • Strong experience of creating dashboards in Datadog and Splunk
  • Should have experience in coordinating and triaging incidents within the managed environments, with ITIL practice knowledge to support the day-to-day operations
  • Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines stacks like Github, Jenkins, Maven, Docker, Artifactory, Kubernetes, uDeploy
  • Knowledge of ETL, Java, Python, or other Distributed Technologies, including experience in Cloud platform such as AWS and/or Azure
  • Strong Experience with Kubernetes, AKS and, EKS
  • Hands-on Experience in Unix scripting, Python, or related programming languages
  • Hands-on Experience with Public Cloud environments, preferably AWS and Azure.
  • Analytical and detail orientated thought process with the ability to take methodical approach to activities such as data analysis and stability trending.
  • Ensuring all agreed to operational policies and procedures are adhered to.
  • Leading the coordination with stakeholders through resolution of the incident. Closely partnering and collaborating with Infrastructure, Engineering, Operations, Squads and Business Leadership to ensure alignment across the business.
  • Capability to partner with Operations and Stakeholders on stability opportunities based upon reporting/trending findings as well as operational readiness
  • Ability to quickly learn new concepts and technologies to support day to day operations
  • Customer orientated personality exhibiting professionalism and enthusiasm
  • Demonstrate ability to form trusted working relationships with business unit stakeholders through collaboration and enhanced effective communications
  • Deeply self-motivated with the ability to work independently, coordinating activities within cross-regional and multi-functional teams
  • Able to mentor team members in areas where you have domain expertise and able to coordinate with partners on
  • Strong self-starting, analytical, communication, and critical thinking skills


The Value You Deliver

  • Bring Stability and Efficiencies to WI Squads and Operations to accelerate development life cycle
  • Guiding resources assigned to the incident and ensures the incident is receiving the accurate support to drive resolution as quickly as possible
  • An automation mentality to drive platform stability approaches
  • Streamlining processes, optimizing workflows, introducing new features with positive business impacts
  • Bring together technical, procedural, and financial data to reduce toil and increase efficiency
  • You will execute plans for technical standardization and process refinement within the Stability and Automation engineering organization, especially for Operations and Squads.
  • Must bring flawless execution and results in role of organizational navigator and collaborator.
  • Actively learning, sharing insights, industry practices and developments, within your area of expertise
  • Impactful, with a passion for contributing to continuing enhancement of our engineering capabilities with a focus on excellence


The Team

The WI QE Center of Excellence (COE) is passionate about driving WI organizational' s technological innovation initiatives and improvements which accelerates the squad, operational efficiencies and improve the customer experience. The mission of the COE is engineering excellence across the WI business with focus areas on engineering effectiveness, engineering measurement and maturity, engineering innovation and engineering culture and craft. Stability is our top priority!

Fidelity's Onsite Working Model
Fidelity is transitioning to a full-time onsite working model through a phased rollout across regions and roles. Currently, some roles and locations require 100% onsite presence, while others require less. Onsite expectations are likely to evolve as the rollout continues. This transition does not apply to fully remote roles.

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