Infrastructure Engineer/Consultant - Riverwoods, IL, United States - Discover Financial Services

Description

And we mean it — we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world's leading digital banking and payments companies.

Come build your future, while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover.

At Discover, be part of a culture where diversity, teamwork, and collaboration reign.

Be the reason we help millions of consumers build a brighter financial future and achieve yours along the way with a rewarding career.

The Infrastructure Engineer role includes building, managing, and supporting core infrastructure and security services in middleware space to deliver highly available and scalable services, automating toil to minimize manual work and meet security and compliance objectives in all aspects of the secure middleware ecosystem, perform basic system administration tasks, and serve on the on-call team as an escalation contact for service incidents.

Responsible for the technical design, development, installation, monitoring and ongoing support and maintenance of a diverse set of middleware technologies including WebSphere, Apache, Tomcat, and Jboss.

The role is a technical, hands-on opportunity with a heavy focus on automation, resilient design and deployment of middleware ready systems and services through Infrastructures as code process.

This role collaborates with Product teams internal and external to Infrastructure Services to provide world class products and services in support of our application development community and our business as whole.

This role also requires working hands-on knowledge with containerized platforms including Kubernetes, Docker and OpenShift to support our future milestones.

Infrastructure Engineers are skilled in finding new ways to build technical capabilities and influencing the adoption of best practices.

Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

Strong engineering experience in installation and maintenance of WebSphere application server, Tomcat, and Apache platforms
Implement DevOps practices through GitOps framework
Implement Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, Python, Chef, Ansible, and Bash)
Achieves product commitments (and influences others to do the same) by using informal leadership & highly developed communication skills and contributes to or led technology communities
Uses automation, system tools, open-source solutions, observability and 'security first' principles in daily work
Achieves product commitments (and influences others to do the same) by using informal leadership & highly developed communication skills and contributes to or led technology communities
Uses automation, system tools, open-source solutions, observability and 'security first' principles in daily work
Contributes to team agile ceremonies, leads demos and presentations, helps new engineers learn established norms
Initiates high level solution design approaches, and guides team to achieve desired key software delivery capabilities using automated, coded enterprise and observability
Coaches immediate chapter and actively fosters the adoption of new technologies

Bachelors – Computer Science or related
~3+ Years – (Software) Engineering, DevOps or related
~ Experience in handling production systems running middleware software
Technical hands-on using containerized platforms including Kubernetes, Docker and OpenShift.
Possess technical knowledge on AWS and GCP cloud technologies.
Scripting and automation experience using python, bash or any other scripting language.
Comfortable working on agile-based teams comprised of team members with diverse skill sets (e.g. Quality Assurance Engineers, User Experience Designers, Software Engineers / Architects)

Capable of collaborating with stakeholders and project leaders to understand requirements, deliverables, and set expectations on tasks that you will be responsible for.

remote


Application Deadline:
The application window for this position is anticipated to close on May Medical, Dental, Vision, & Health Savings Account
~ Employee Stock Purchase Plan

To deliver on our promises to our customers, each of us contribute every day to a culture that values compliance and risk management.

Discover is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or other legally protected status.

Discover complies with federal, state, and local laws applicable to qualified individuals with disabilities and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations.

If you require a reasonable accommodation to search for a position, to complete an application, and/or to participate in an interview, please email .Any information you provide regarding your accommodation needs will be kept confidential and will only be used to determine and provide necessary accommodation.