Lead Associate Principal, Cloud Engineering

Lead Associate Principal, Cloud Engineering

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) invites you to apply for this role.

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 serve as a technical liaison between internal departments. The role involves utilizing best practices for management, architecture, configuration, high availability, disaster recovery, administration, and automation of the enterprise environment with cloud technologies.

These activities drive the creation of new infrastructure and environments, essential to continued growth and adoption of broad cloud/automation goals across the business. The ideal candidate is passionate about new technologies, mission‑critical systems, regulatory/compliance demands (e.g., CIS, NIST), and continuous improvement of the cloud and infrastructure stack.

• Reports to the Executive Director of Platform Automation and Cloud Engineering
• 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 Dev Ops development activities and complex development tasks involving tools such as Docker, Kafka and container management systems
• Lead and participate in cloud computing environment build‑outs, software installation, maintenance and support, including patches, fixes, end‑of‑life preparation, and upgrades
• Ensure reliability of services, managing SLAs to meet internal and external quality standards for the cloud platform
• Assess and plan for capacity needs within the cloud platform and forecast accordingly
• Implement and manage initiatives with accountability for results and compliance with all controls and security requirements
• Lead development of technology roadmaps and end‑of‑life technology plans
• Communicate project and operational service issues to senior management with observations, decisions, and recommendations for corrective measures
• Manage and participate in 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 rotational support schedules for after‑hours and weekend work for areas of responsibility
• Foster an atmosphere of trust, respect, and high performance, while displaying strong ethics and integrity
• Plan and prioritize project and daily work tasks, meeting deadlines while maintaining high quality of work
• Institute 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

• Manage a team

• Good consultative, communication, team‑player and analytical skills, regularly interacting between various US teams
• Working knowledge of infrastructure design and components such as servers, operating systems, networks, and storage
• Experience architecting, implementing and maintaining highly available mission‑critical environments for 24/7 availability
• Experience working in an environment with a defined production change control process
• Demonstrated history of working within deadlines and ability to work well under pressure

• Strong hands‑on experience scripting/development in Python, Ruby, Go, Java, JavaScript, etc. in a corporate environment
• Hands‑on experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Kafka, Git Hub, Open Shift, and configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef, or Ansible
• Relevant experience with configuration and implementation of IaaS, Infrastructure as code, AWS, Azure, etc.

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