Lead Associate Principal, Cloud Engineering (Kafka) - (New York)

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Lead Associate Principal, Cloud Engineering (Kafka) - (New York)

About The Role

This position requires the successful candidate to work on a W2 directly with FDM. We cannot accept C2C, 1099 or employment sponsorship (e.g. H1-B) for this position.

FDM is a global business and technology consultancy delivering client and industry driven solutions through our 5 core specialist Practices; Software Engineering, Data & Analytics, IT Operations, Change & Transformation, and Risk, Regulation & Compliance.

FDM is seeking a Lead Associate Principal, Cloud Engineering (Kafka) located in Chicago to support a project in the Infrastructure Software and Support sector. Involvement in this project is anticipated to last initially 12 months but may be extended.

This role will be hybrid with requirements to be in office 3 days per week.

What You'll Do:

This role will perform a range of activities required to both maintain and continuously automate a large, complex cloud-based computing environment. In addition, you will provide technical guidance to the team and, when called upon, serve as a technical liaison between internal departments. This will involve utilizing best practices for the management, architecture, configuration, high availability, disaster recovery, administration, and automation of the enterprise environment with cloud technologies. These activities will drive the creation of new infrastructure and environments, which will be critical to continued growth and adoption of broad cloud/automation goals across the business. The ideal candidate is passionate about new technologies to accomplish complex project initiatives and implement mission critical systems, while keeping current with trends in the Cloud and Infrastructure spaces for areas to improve, with a steady eye towards the extensive regulatory/compliance demands on our company (e.g. CIS, NIST, etc).

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

Design, configure, implement and manage a fully automated workflow for provisioning and maintaining a complex, highly available cloud environment using infrastructure as code
Develop and maintain a library of deployable, tested, and documented automation design scripts, processes, and procedures for deploying services to the cloud
Manage DevOps development activities and complex development tasks that will involve working with tools such as Docker, Kafka and container management systems
Lead and participate in cloud computing environment build-outs, software installation, maintenance and support, including but not limited to, patches, fixes, end-of-life preparation, and upgrades
Ensure the reliability of the services your area of responsibility provide and manage to both specific and implied SLAs to help the organization achieve both internal and external quality standard excellence for the cloud platform
Assess and plan for capacity needs within the cloud platform and forecast accordingly
Implement and manage initiatives within your assigned area of responsibility with accountability for results and compliance with all controls and security requirements
Lead in the development of technology roadmaps and end-of-life technology plans
Effectively communicate project and operational service issues to senior management promptly with observations, decisions, and recommendations for corrective measures
Manage and participate in the implementation of production changes during defined maintenance windows and support on call rotation
Maintain appropriate work/personal balance within your team
Serve as a point of escalation within the team for support issues
Implement and manage rotational support schedules for afterhours and weekend work for area of responsibility
Foster an atmosphere of trust, respect, and high performance while displaying strong ethics and integrity
Manage project and daily work task planning and prioritization and meeting project deadlines while also maintaining a high quality of work
Institutes corrective actions to address audit and other regulatory or compliance findings
Operate within budget; Establish and assure adherence to schedules, work plans, and performance requirements
Write and maintain documentation of relevant systems, procedures and processes
Other duties as assigned

About You

Qualifications:

The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.

[Required] Good consultative, communication, team player and analytical skills are a must, as you will be regularly interacting between various teams distributed across the US
[Required] Working knowledge of infrastructure design and components, such as: servers, operating systems, networks, and storage
[Required] Experience with architecting, implementing and maintaining highly available mission critical environments for 24/7 availability
[Required] Experience working in an environment with a defined production change control process
[Required] Demonstrates history of working within deadlines and ability to work well under pressure

Technical Skills:

[Required] Strong hands-on experience scripting/development skills in Python, Ruby, Go, Java, JavaScript, etc. in a corporate environment
[Required] Hands-on experience with: Terraform, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Kafka, Github, OpenShift, and configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef, or Ansible
[Required] Relevant experience with configuration and implementation of IaaS, Infrastructure as code, AWS, Azure, etc.
Implementing and maintaining Policy as Code: Using tools like Sentinel and OPA to write, test, and deploy policies that automate governance and control.

Education and/or Experience:

[Required] Bachelor’s degree, preferably in a technical discipline (Computer Science, Mathematics, etc.), or equivalent combination of education and experience required
[Required] 7+ years experience in IT systems installation, operations, administration, and maintenance of cloud systems / virtualized servers
[Preferred] Experience working in a financial services or highly regulated environment preferred

Certificates or Licenses:

[Required] AWS Solutions Architect Associate Certification or higher strongly desired
[Preferred] Relevant industry certifications such as Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud

About Us

FDM is an award-winning global business and technology consultancy powering the people behind tech and innovation for over 30 years. We collaborate with world-leading companies to identify the expertise they need, exactly when they need it. We have helped successfully launch nearly 25,000 careers globally to date and are a trusted partner to over 300 companies worldwide.

FDM has 4,000+ employees worldwide, with over 90 nationalities working together as a team. From our origins in Brighton, UK, FDM now has 19 centres located across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific and is now on the FTSE4Good Index.

Dedicated to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
FDM Group’s mission is to make tech and business careers accessible for everyone. Our diverse team of 90+ nationalities thrive on differences, fuels innovation through varied experiences, and celebrates shared successes. As an Equal Opportunity Employer and listed on the FTSE4Good Index, FDM ensures every qualified applicant, regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability or any other status protected by federal or provincial law, gets the chance they deserve.

FDM Group, Inc. is registered to operate and hire employees in select states within the US. We will consider employment applications exclusively from candidates who are either residing in one of the following states or willing to relocate to them: Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia.

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