Sr. Cloud Engineer – Advanced Analytics
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Job Description:
The Advanced Analytics Platform organization is seeking a highly skilled and cloud-native engineer that has a passion for delivering infrastructure and automation solutions as code. Your role is to develop, test & operate reusable infrastructure as code patterns . You ll provide support to the internal engineering, infrastructure, & IT teams to continuously improve & automate our analytics architecture.
Our current tech stack includes AWS, Terraform, Linux, Chef, Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos/Marathon, Spring, Angular, Node.js, Java 8, Python and Scala.
Responsibilities:
- Work as part of a team of other cloud and DevOps engineers to design and build tools and automation scripts that enable data scientists and business analysts to easily consume cloud-native services.
- Technical point of contact for product teams as it relates to automation, CI/CD, and DevOps.
- Developing secure design patterns for analytics architectures deployed in the public cloud and/or orchestrated container environments.
- Build automation to actively audit the infrastructure for misconfigurations
- Develop container image lifecycle management systems
- Promote a risk-aware culture, ensure efficient and effective risk and compliance management practices by adhering to required standards and processes.
Skills:
Skills Required:
- Hands on experience with AWS services such as VPC, EC2, RDS, IAM, KMS, Lambda, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Dynamodb, SNS, SQS, and S3
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code, Immutable Infrastructure, & continuous integration/deployment practices
- Proficient in at least one programming language (Python, Java, Scala, Javascript)
- Experience in version control systems such as Git, GitLab, etc.
- Experience administering & hardening Linux systems
- Familiarity with technical challenges associated with containers and distributed systems with a focus on analytics research environments.
- Experience with analytics tools (SAS, R, Scientific Python, H2o)
- Willingness to continuously learn & share learnings with others
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment
- Very strong verbal & written communication skills
Skills Desired:
- Experience with solving problems and delivering high quality results in a fast-paced environment
- Experience with analytics tools (SAS, R, Scientific Python, H2o)
- Experience with data mining, machine learning, statistical modeling tools or underlying algorithms
- Experience within the Financial industry
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Discover Financial Services is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, among other things, or as a qualified individual with a disability.
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