Cloud Engineer DevOps

Company: Western Asset
Location: Pasadena
Posted on: March 17, 2023

Job Description:

Western Asset Management (WAM) is looking for a motivated, ambitious engineer interested in a rewarding opportunity to help move our enterprise into a hybrid cloud consumption model. Our objectives are to review and audit our current AWS platform foundation, address gaps, ensuring core enablement services are built to best practices. This will involve creating and enforcing guardrails publishing a framework with a security + cost mindset. In addition, we need to create consumption pipeline that ensure overall governance is maintained and cost models constructed for the technology organization. You are expected to be hands on and demonstrate these skills.
As a member the Cloud Team, you will contribute to the modernization of WAM, through a company-wide Strategy to migrate to cloud based solutions. You will work with architecture, infrastructure and application teams to help foster innovation and deliver new technology patterns across the stack while being passionate about working in a collaborative culture.
The position involves extending the existing platform and providing new capabilities to solve numerous problem domains. As an engineer on the cloud team, you will be involved in design, implementation, and support of public cloud infrastructure, processes, and core components relied upon by applications across the firm. Team members will also be challenged with tracking developments in exciting areas like containerized runtimes, service meshes, and serverless computing in order to keep the platform evolving in powerful and impactful directions.
The Expertise And Skills You Bring

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  Bachelor's Degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
  
  
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  Experience with Amazons Architected Framework
  
  
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  Maintain and support AWS Landing zone vending machines
  
  
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  1-2 years of experience in AWS Cloud migration; Experience building hybrid services maintaining highly resilient platforms, EC2, IAAS, CAAS and Serverless workloads
  
  
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  Experience in software development with Python, NodeJS, .NET or Java with a focus on SDLC and Jenkins Pipeline automation operating and support as a service
  
  
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  Experience a plus working Linux, VMware, EKS, Kafka, AWS, Terraform, Git, GitHub, Jenkins, Maven
  
  
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  Desire to own and operating cloud enablement services working to enable the business and technology organizations to consume and operate cloud native services
  
  
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  Developing frameworks that allow that prepare the organization for cloud adoption
  
  
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  Discipline in service ownership building roadmaps leverage confluence collaboration tools
  
  
  Expected base salary for the role will generally be between $112,00 and $133,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base salary if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include other forms of compensation such as, discretionary bonuses, short and long-term incentive packages, and Company-sponsored benefit programs.
  Qualifications
  
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    At least 5 years' experience working with public cloud providers (AWS) (Azure)
    
    
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    Ability to write automation scripts and web services (Python, Go)
    
    
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    Experience with infrastructure-as-code frameworks (e.g. Terraform, PowerShell)
    
    
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    Hands-on experience with public cloud providers (AWS, Azure)
    
    
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    Experience with configuration management tooling and dependencies
    
    
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    Familiarity with microservices architecture and distributed systems
    
    
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    Experience working with git source control and CI/CD systems
    
    
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    Experience with both Linux and Windows OS
    
    
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    Preferred - experience with Consul, Vault, and Terraform Enterprise
    
    
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    Preferred - experience with containers and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes)
    
    
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    Excellent communication and organizational skills
    
    
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    Strong troubleshooting skills
    
    
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    Previous experience creating automated monitoring checks for internal and external/public resources.
    
    
    About Western Asset
    At Western Asset we're saying hello to the future. Committed to being the leading fixed-income investment management firm in the world, we're investing in new technologies, methodologies and markets. We're also investing in our people. Our business is guided by a belief in doing the right thing: that if we treat our clients and colleagues with fairness and respect, success will follow. We're building on our reputation and resources with an entrepreneurial approach that drives innovation. Every day is an opportunity for us to get better by making the most of the possibilities that our people and ideas can bring.
    Our Commitment to Diversity
    We believe a diverse and cohesive workforce promotes the formation of different ideas and viewpoints, enhances independent thinking, and helps create a work environment where the best ideas are identified and implemented. We are committed to unlocking the power of diversity through an inclusive environment that affords everyone the opportunity to develop individually, advance professionally and participate fully in the Firm's success.
    External Company URL: www.westernasset.com
    Street: 385 East Colorado Blvd

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