IT Resiliency Engineer

Tasks

End-to-End Engineering Leadership: Oversee the design and implementation of resilient engineering across the technology domains.

ï‚· Cloud and On-Premises Infrastructure Expertise: Design and review resilient solutions in both cloud-based and on-premises environments.

ï‚· Chaos Engineering Infrastructure Initiatives: Lead chaos engineering efforts to proactively identify and mitigate potential system weaknesses.

ï‚· Standards for Monitoring and Alerting: Collaborate with Teams to evolve existing standards for system monitoring and alerting to ensure rapid detection and response.

ï‚· Resiliency Architecture Reviews: Represent the IT Resiliency Office during the Architectural Review Board.

ï‚· Enterprise-wide Collaboration and stakeholder management: Collaborate with various teams across the organization to align and prioritize resiliency and recovery efforts.

ï‚· Automation: Expertise with IaC and Tools such as Ansible.

ï‚· Incident Response and Recovery: Integrate with post mortem process, from a major incident, to identify areas of opportunity for enhancing resiliency.

ï‚· Development: Evangelize standards and practices among the Technology organization to enrich our resiliency posture.

ï‚· Reporting and Documentation: Develop standardized regular reporting on resilience activities, risks, and improvements to the Leadership team.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience.


• 5-10 years experience with platform engineering with a focus on IaC, DevOps practices, and orchestration tools.


• Preferred but not required experience as a Team lead or a hands on Technical Manager role that can engage and deliver projects to completion


• A track record of successfully architecting and deploying enterprise-level solutions that prioritize system uptime and data integrity across various operational scenarios.


• Demonstrated ability to design and implement systems that ensure high availability, support massive transaction volumes, and facilitate seamless disaster recovery processes.


• Infrastructure and service architecture & engineering experience, including functional and technical requirements gathering, and solution development.


• Strong dedication to customer needs, with excellent communication and the ability to build lasting relationships, alongside the capability to articulate complex resilience strategies in a clear and impactful manner.


• Deep insight into the complexities of multi-AZ and multi-Region cloud platforms, with a keen understanding of how these impact system resilience and disaster recovery planning.


• Proven experience in the ongoing management of mission-critical systems that require constant uptime, including out-of-hours support and rapid response to incidents.


• Knowledgeable in evaluating and deciding on trade-offs between consistency, availability, and partition tolerance, especially in the context of system failures and recovery strategies.


• Well-versed in various cloud service models such as SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS, with hands-on experience in designing resilient services on leading public cloud platforms.


• Proficient in Chaos Engineering principles and practices, with experience in designing and conducting experiments to validate the systems capability to withstand turbulent conditions.


• Skilled in implementing observability solutions that provide real-time insights into the performance and health of systems, aiding in proactive issue detection and resolution.


• Practical experience operating in an Agile development environment.