Vice President, DevOps Engineer Lead, Application Production Services & Engineering

Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Job Description:

The successful candidate will be part of Global Markets Engineering Team based in India. This person will have at least 3 years’ experience in similar role within the financial services industry. As such the successful applicant will need to possess a solid technical background, excellent inter-personal skills, and fine attention to detail, project management skills and a proven track record of success. Duties will include;

• Working with the development community to take their new applications and turn it into a fully supported trading system.
• Participate in understanding SDLC and implementing Ansible Playbooks for deployment automation.
• Serve as a fully proficient technical resource; providing technical knowledge and capabilities as team member and individual contributor.
• Create solutions that will seamlessly integrate with adjunct technologies (i.e. SDLC’s CI/CD pipeline.)
• Create a Dev-Ops culture and automate all deployments using the latest industry leading technologies and processes
• Collaborate with internal and external subject matter experts, including line-of-business, business technology teams and operational support teams.
• Document requirements from subject matter experts and development teams to implement them in playbook format with minimal assistance.
• Adhere to, update, and/or create where necessary standards and internal controls and procedures.
• Work alongside the developers to ensure that their application adheres to the high standards expected.
  
  

Responsibilities:

• Validating application designs ensuring they meet or exceeds known requirements, make recommendations and implementing reliable and operable service architectures.
• Responsible for on-boarding in-house developed applications and associated hardware in accordance to well defined and well-established procedure.
• Work closely with development teams to onboard their applications to bank’s Horizon platform
• Automate CI/CD processes
• Identify inefficiencies and make recommendations for process improvements, playbook templates and cost reductions.
• Participate in knowledge sharing sessions.
• Define how the applications should be configured using the industry leading Dev-ops model
• Responsible for developing and maintaining tools to aide in the day-to-day application deployment and end-to-end process automation.
  
  

Required Skills:

• Experience of working in a highly pressurised trading environment.
• Strong Unix shell, Perl or python scripting skills
• Sound knowledge and experience around virtualizations, containers, OpenShift, Jenkins and other such technologies and processes
• Previous experience in a DevOps culture, especially in field of Deployment automation using Ansible.
• Experience in most aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Strong analytical and organizational skills, including attention to detail, and ability to determine effective course of action as required.
• Ability to thoroughly review, understand and interpret technology updates for applicability in the environment we support.
• Ability to interact effectively with all levels of stakeholders and leadership.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and respond under pressure.
• Bachelor (4-year) degree, with a technical major, such as computer science, computer engineering or 10 year’s relevant experience in lieu of degree.
• Must have exceptional time management skills, be customer oriented and strong organizational and coordination skills.