Vice President, Software Engineering (Fintech)

TL;DR

Vice President, Software Engineering (DevOps/AWS): Driving automation and resilience of infrastructure supporting 99.5% availability with an accent on DevOps Engineering practices and CI/CD modernization. Focus on building observability metrics, implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, and scaling systems within AWS.

Location: New York, NY, United States

Salary: $151,000 - $259,800

Company

A global investment banking and financial services firm.

What you will do

• Drive automation and resilience of infrastructure to ensure 99.5% availability.
• Implement an "automate everything" approach to systems management and DevOps Engineering practices.
• Modernize CI/CD pipelines and build observability metrics and alarms.
• Perform technical reviews of changes and provide mentoring to junior engineers.
• Collaborate with engineering leadership and developers on technical presentations.
• Ensure environment security and compliance with risk and security policies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field with 5+ years of experience, or Master's degree with 3+ years of experience.
• Proven experience in application security engineering or full-stack software engineering.
• Proficiency with Python, Go, Bash, Terraform, Ansible, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Expertise in cloud infrastructure and automation using AWS (EC2, ELB, Docker, ECS).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and designing scalable systems in AWS.
• Must be based in New York, NY.