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PENFED Credit Union

Engineer III, IT Cloud

PENFED Credit Union, Mc Lean, Virginia, us, 22107

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Overview

Are you looking to take your career from good to great? As an employee of PenFed, every day is an opportunity to thrive, and be part of a team working to ensure our organization is providing world class service to our members, employees, and our communities. We exist to help our members realize their full potential, educate and encourage their dreams, and make every effort to follow our mission and help our members "do better." Joining PenFed is more than being an employee; it's about being a part of the PenFed family.

PenFed is hiring a (Hybrid) Engineer III, IT Cloud at our Tysons, Virginia location. The primary purpose of this job is to be responsible for designing, implementing, supporting, and monitoring PenFed's emerging cloud environments. This position is a key resource for the implementation strategies in the cloud while driving cloud initiative in high performance cloud computing and managing a scalable, continuous-integration architecture.

Responsibilities

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of job duties and the position will perform other duties as assigned.

Design, implement and maintain cloud-based services and solutions (AWS).

Provide technical vision for cloud technologies, and customized solutions to address complex environments.

Responsible for the integration of cloud technologies- IaaS, PaaS and Enterprise tools such as services, monitoring, logging and other development tools.

Collaborate with Cyber Security team in periodic reviews of the cloud security in order to implement strong security practices.

Use current or new tools to monitor environment including CloudWatch, CloudTrail and other services monitoring tools.

Create and maintain AWS networking: VPC, Subnets, Security Groups, VPN, Peer-to-Peer, NAT, Gateways, load balancers, IP-tables, Transit Gateways, Security Groups and ACL's.

Write Cloud formation or Terraform scripts for Infrastructure as Code.

Perform AWS Identity Access Management tasks including user accounts, roles and policies management.

Responsible for stability, integrity and efficiency of the infrastructure and information systems that support core functions of the business.

Accountable for providing escalation support to troubleshoot and maintain production infrastructure and to resolve production issues and outages.

Participate in the planning and design of an enterprise Business Continuity Plan and Disaster Recovery Plan.

Comply with Incident Management and Change Management procedures and reporting practices.

Maintain up-to-date detailed knowledge of the IT industry as it relates to the technologies identified as primary responsibilities including awareness of new or revised solutions and improved processes.

Develop and maintain up-to-date baselines for the secure configuration and operations of all in- place systems.

Assist junior staff in researching technical problems and complex designs in order to develop staff capabilities.

Participate in on-call 24x7 support as needed in the event of system outage or failure.

Qualifications

Equivalent combination of education and experience is considered.

Bachelor's Degree in related field is required.

In lieu of a degree, combination of education and a minimum of ten (10) years of related work experience is required that provides the necessary skills and knowledge to perform all the essential job functions.

Minimum five (5) years hands-on experience in the design, development, and implementation in AWS cloud environment (VPC, IAM, AMI, S3, EC2, ELB, RDS, SQS, SNS, Route53 etc.) is required.

Minimum of four (4) years of experience in Linux systems administration. Understand AWS/ architectural best practices as well as experience in the use of programming/Scripting languages and Cloud Security.

Experience with DevOps tools and API Gateways (Apigee, MuleSoft) is a plus

Experience deploying and supporting medium to large IaaS, PaaS environments

Strong understanding of Network, Compute, Storage, Cloud and End-User technologies

Strong understanding of System design and integration with a thorough familiarity with multi- tiered application architecture and public, private, and hybrid cloud technologies.

Strong interpersonal, problem solving and multi-tasking skills desired.

Must be able to present system designs for user approval at formal reviews.

Strong problem solving and analytic skills.

Strong communication, documentation, and time management skills.

Supervisory ResponsibilityThis position will not supervise employees.

Licenses and Certifications

AWS: One or more Associate and Professional certifications are required

Other professional certifications are a plus

Work EnvironmentWhile performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to an indoor office setting with moderate noise.

Most roles require working in an office setting with moderate noise and the ability to lift 25 pounds.

Travel

Ability to travel to various worksites and be on-call is required.

About Us

Established in 1935, PenFed today is one of the country's strongest and most stable financial institutions with over 2.9 million members and over $31 billion in assets. We serve members in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, as well as in Guam and Puerto Rico. We are federally insured by NCUA and we are an Equal Housing Lender. We are available to members worldwide, via the web, seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day. We provide our employees with a lucrative benefits package including robust medical, dental and vision plan options, plenty of paid time off, 401k with employer match, on-site fitness facilities at our larger locations, and more. Equal Employment OpportunityPenFed management will maintain and observe personnel policies which will not discriminate or permit harassment or retaliation against a person because of race, color, creed, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital status, military or veteran status or obligation, the presence of a physical and/or mental disability or medical condition, genetic information, sexual orientation, and all statuses protected by applicable state or local law in all recruiting, hiring, training, compensation, overtime, position classifications, work assignments, facilities, promotions, transfers, employee treatment, and in all other terms and conditions of employment. PenFed will also prohibit retaliation against individuals for raising a complaint of discrimination or harassment or participating in an investigation of same. PenFed will also reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with a disability so that they can apply for a job or perform the essential functions of a job unless doing so causes a direct threat to these individuals or others in the workplace and the threat cannot be eliminated by reasonable accommodation or if the accommodation creates an undue hardship to PenFed. Contact human resources (HR) with any questions or requests for accommodation at 402-639-8568.

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