Infrastructure Engineer Lead - Cloud Network Engineer

Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Job Description:
This job is responsible for infrastructure tool/service designs within technical domains in accordance with architectural governance, standards and policies. Key responsibilities include facilitating deployment of tools/services by leading others in solution development, maintenance of templates, playbooks and automation used during implementation. Job expectations include demonstrating expertise within technical domains, decomposing issues or objectives into work units, advancing efficient solution delivery practices, and promoting exceptional design, engineering and organizational practices.

Enterprise Cloud Platforms Team:

Enterprise Cloud Platforms team in the CTI organization offers Private and Public Cloud platforms for Bank of America’s developers to drive faster time-to-market, innovation with private and public cloud capabilities, and reduce complexity with bult-in integrations. We believe in high quality engineering culture to engineer our platforms with customer and platform mindset, design for large enterprise scale and resilience, and accelerate market innovation into the technical platforms we deliver.

As part of this team, you will have a large impact on the evolution of next generation Cloud services for Bank of America and explore an extensive list of new technologies that will drive innovation across our company.

This individual as a Cloud Platforms Infrastructure Lead role is responsible for overseeing the design, implementation, and management of secure and efficient network architectures within cloud environments. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop and maintain network security protocols and implement best practices and deliver high quality network/security services. The lead will also be responsible for identifying potential security threats, conducting assessments, and required design development and automation. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in cloud platform networking, security technologies and a solid understanding of compliance requirements with cloud infrastructures. This position requires strong leadership skills and ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Position Summary:

• Design and implement secure network architectures for cloud platforms
• Lead a team of engineers in developing network security strategies and policies
• Write public cloud infrastructure as code automation using tools such as Terraform
• Design and develop public cloud landing zones automation to build core cloud foundational platform services
• Develop cloud services provisioning automation with integrated capabilities of IAM, network, security policies as code, and observability
• Collaborate with technical product management and operations, to deliver the engineering roadmap in Agile model
• Partner with Information Security teams to engineer secure app patterns into Cloud platforms
• Assist in translating business requirements into technical definitions, reference models, blueprints, and playbooks for deployment in compliance with architecture standards and policies
• Assist technical Analysts and Infrastructure Engineers by ensuring that technology solutions comply with enterprise system design and engineering standards.
• Promote an inclusive and healthy working environment and help to resolve organizational impediments/blockers

Required Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge (7+ Years) in cloud network and security technologies including experience in enterprise across DMZ, DC, and WAN infrastructure.
• Solid understanding of cloud networking concepts, subnets, routing, load balancing, firewalls, and cloud security.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure Cloud, certification preferred. AWS and GCP desirable.
• Experience in enterprise-scale environments, building highly available IaaS and PaaS solutions
• Experience with agile collaboration and project management tools such as Confluence, Jira and Kanban]
• Ability to quickly gather business requirements and match them to existing service offerings or new solution requirements.
• Experience building and working with Cloud infrastructure and virtual appliances.\
• Experience building and working with Hybrid/Private overlays such as SDN technologies
• Experiencing migrating corporate applications to public Cloud
• Deep knowledge of best practice Cloud security and Threat modeling
• Knowledge of protocols, operating systems, hypervisors and distributed systems architectures
• General knowledge of common configuration management and automation tools.
• Proficient in network/Cloud monitoring and performance tools/testing/benchmarking.
• POC/RFP documentation and review experience.
• Excellent collaboration/communication skills and ability to work in a global team.
• Understanding of traffic management (e.g proxy and load balancer) and DDI (DNS,DHCP,IPAM) tools.
• Experience in DevOps and GitOps models with infra-as-code, config-as-code, policy-as-code, etc.
• Proficient in translating designs into fully developed Terraform code.
• Understanding of landing zones, cloud-native security, monitoring and logging tools, and Well-Architected Framework principals.
• Experience with containers related technologies and CICD tools – Jenkins, pipelines, container repos, etc.
• Experience in Cloud logging, monitoring, and observability tools
• Proficient in at least one scripting language (i.e. Bash, Python).
• Strong analytical, problem solving and organizational skills

Desired Qualifications

• Experience in financial services industry
• Experience on technology and infrastructure teams
• General Linux\UNIX system administration and scripting.
• Cloud provider certifications (e.g. AZ-700)
• Experience with architecting private/public Cloud solutions.
• Familiarity with Container and Mesh technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Consul)

Responsibilities:

• Confirms that application and business requirements have been translated into technical definitions, reference models, blueprints, and playbooks to guide development and integration of technology solutions
• Contributes to the creation/selection of functional and non-functional product evaluation requirements within and across domains
• Reviews and may develop software solutions to address manual and repeatable work or inefficient processes
• Reviews and guides the evaluation of reference models, blueprints, playbooks and the execution of on-site evaluations of third-party products being considered for firm adoption
• Mentors and assists Infrastructure resources on infrastructure service along with application integration validation methods and tools to ensure that technology solutions comply with enterprise system design and engineering standards
• Promotes an inclusive and healthy working environment and help to resolve organizational impediments/blockers

Skills:

• Analytical Thinking
• Application Development
• Production Support
• Risk Management
• Solution Design
• Automation
• Business Acumen
• DevOps Practices
• Solution Delivery Process
• Stakeholder Management
• Adaptability
• Architecture
• Innovative Thinking
• Project Management
• Technical Strategy Development

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

40

Pay Transparency details

US - NJ - Jersey City - 101 Hudson St - 101 Hudson (NJ2101)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$108,100.00 - $165,200.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.

Discretionary incentive eligible

This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.

Benefits

This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.