Principal TechOps Engineer - Digital Assets

Soteria Reinsurance Ltd.; Dublin; On-site; EUR 75,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services company in Dublin is seeking a Principal TechOps Engineer to drive initiatives from design to implementation in their AWS cloud environment. This role involves collaborating with teams, automating processes, and mentoring others within a dynamic work culture. The ideal candidate will have extensive hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and automation tools, playing a key role in shaping the company’s technical strategies and infrastructure expansion.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with AWS in a production environment.
• Experience building and deploying Docker images.
• Experience managing and maintaining Kubernetes Clusters on AWS EKS.
• Ability to communicate at all levels.
• Drive and champion the overall design of highly available applications.

Responsibilities

• Enable and drive initiatives from design to implementation.
• Collaborate across Fidelity teams.
• Champion automation tools to improve software delivery.
• Mentor others in AWS infrastructure-as-code practices.

Skills

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm charts

Jenkins

Monitoring tools

CloudWatch

Datadog

Splunk

UNIX

Terraform

Python

Git

Tools

AWS EKS

Kafka

Git

Job description

Principal TechOps Engineer - Digital Assets page is loaded## Principal TechOps Engineer - Digital Assetslocations: Dublin, Irelandtime type: Full timeposted on: Posted 24 Days Agojob requisition id: 2120703## ## Job Description:**Principal TechOps Engineer – SRE**As a principal member of the TechOps SRE team, you'll work closely with our engineering partners to help enable and drive initiatives from design to implementation. Our highly available multi-region Kubernetes (AWS EKS) environments are best-in-class and central to our enterprise-grade infrastructure strategy. These growing environments currently support numerous mission-critical workloads.In this exciting role, you’ll have the opportunity to further develop and refine your skills, collaborate across numerous Fidelity teams, and continue to grow in a fun, collaborative, and rapidly changing environment. This is a phenomenal opportunity to have a direct impact on the emerging strategies of our infrastructure and deployments, while at the same time, helping enable the expansion of our business.The **Skills** and **Expertise** You Bring* 5+ years of hands-on experience with AWS in a production environment.* Experience building and deploying Docker images.* Experience migrating applications from other container orchestration solutions (such as ECS) to Kubernetes preferably on EKS.* Production experience running Kubernetes workloads ideally on AWS EKS.* Experience managing and maintaining Kubernetes Clusters on AWS EKS.* Experience with Confluent or Kafka.* Experience creating and deploying Helm charts & libraries.* Hands-on experience with Jenkins Core, including authoring and maintaining declarative CI/CD pipelines and libraries.* Experience with monitoring tools e.g., CloudWatch, Datadog & Splunk Cloud.* Proficiency with UNIX operating systems and shell scripting.* Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), having managed services and applications in a large AWS cross-account environment using IAM and federated SSO.* Experience crafting and maintaining logging, monitoring, and alerting capabilities using tools like Datadog and Splunk.* Ability to communicate at all levels with track record of strong written and verbal communications.* See problems as opportunities to automate.* Ability to work independently with minimal direction.* Drive and champion the overall design of highly available, secure, scalable microservices-based applications in AWS.* Track record of providing technical leadership to strong teams of Site Reliability Engineers / Cloud Engineers.* Experience with configuring and deploying resilient infrastructure in multiple regions and multiple availability zones.* Work multi-functionally with other organizations and collaborate with our risk, product and engineering team leaders.* Leading the initiative to craft and deploy our applications to the cloud.* Promoting a DevOps mentality, providing mentorship and establishing development standard methodologies for AWS infrastructure-as-code.* Championing automation tools to improve software delivery and reduce risk.* Production experience with infrastructure-as-code (IaC), Terraform preferred.* Programming experience, e.g., Python preferred.* Experience with distributed version control systems, Git preferred.* Experience with Apache or Confluent Kafka a plus.* Experience with the agile software development lifecycle and Kanban preferred.* Experience with CDN Providers e.g., Akamai preferred.**The Team**Fidelity Digital Assets℠, a Fidelity Investments Company, is developing a full-service enterprise-grade platform for storing, trading, and servicing digital assets, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum.Fidelity Digital Assets℠ embraces an entrepreneurial culture and startup mindset while serving as one of the most innovative business units within Fidelity Investments. Our global, diverse team of hundreds of forward-thinking professionals lead with agility and creativity to build solutions that bridge the gap between traditional institutional investors and their exposure to digital assets. The firm’s tenure and experience across multiple business lines present our employees with unprecedented access to knowledge, technology, and resources that help our team reshape the future of finance.Within Fidelity Digital Assets, Technical Operations team is central to our initiative of moving to the cloud. The team uses AWS services to secure our network and scale our applications to ensure their up-time and reliability. Team members are hands-on Site Reliability Engineers who promote a DevOps approach, with a focus on infrastructure-as-code, security and automation.For more like this search Crypto OR #CryptoJobs OR cryptocurrency OR blockchain OR "Digital Assets"## ## Category:## Information Technology