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Job Summary

The Senior Engineer is responsible for the planning designing acquisition maintenance and implementation of applications infrastructure system integration and solutions utilizing vendor relationships and internal IT and business partners with guidance and direction only on the most complex situations. This role will specialize in Engineering in a specific infrastructure domain related to Cloud Infrastructure Tools and Automation focused on supporting application and business capabilities. This position leads the research design validation and implementation of systems components and technologies and provides recommendations for strategies roadmaps and solutions. This person will ensure the solutions employed across the organization support the needs of evolving business by effectively understanding the changing technology. This individual will also provide oversight and assistance across project design and delivery ongoing administration including monitoring maintenance troubleshooting and ensuring availability and reliability across multiple providers and services.

Distinction: Cloud Engineering Build configure migrate and troubleshoot Cloud based resources such as IaaS PaaS SaaS components hosted on MS Azure which includes Compute Storage Virtual Networks Network and Application Security Groups Express Route Direct Connect ADLS Identity & Access Management Backup and DR. This associate is expected to be proficient in monitoring patching scripting and automation using PowerShell Terraform VS code DevOps pipeline and ARM templates. This associate is also expected to understand cost and billing management maintain standards and manage capacity and performance of the components listed above.

This position is focused on the infrastructure domains listed above but the team works with a variety of platform groups that utilize technologies such as System Center Tufan Ansible ServiceNow InfoBlox Prisma Cloud Qualys and Zenoss.

Essential Job Functions

Technology Independently advises mentors and collaborates with team members stakeholders vendors on strategies and design efforts: including (but not limited to) technology enhancements and capacity planning. Collaborates with crossfunctional departments & IT partners to plan and leadintegration efforts that align with business/operation initiatives. Work directly with multiple departments and lines of business to support their IT needs. This includes gathering business requirements to develop solutions. Provide toptier technical support and responds to escalations from lower level engineers as necessary and acts as primary vendor contact for all issues escalated to/from vendors. Works related problems change management and escalated incidents. Submits RFQ/RFPs obtains quotes aggregates documents and proposals and maintains current and proposed EndofLife schedules and tracks progression of key vendors.

Implement and support Azure components IaaS such as VM instances Azure Site Recovery Azure Backup Express Route Vnets Route Tables Load Balancers and PaaS services of Azure Data Lake Store Azure SQL Database AKS ACR APIM Azure functions etc.

Extensive experience in migrating workload from on premise to Azure cloud

Experience in Azure Devops and Pipelines

Experience on Azure monitor Azure security center and Management groups/policies

Should have experience in costing and billing

Automation and instrumentation. This includes automation of server build and existing run books using scripting languages and platforms such as PowerShell ARM Terraform Azure runbooks and System Center

Maintains and enhances security related components such as PKI certificates CIS Benchmark hardening configurations and various encryption cyphers.

Familiarity with meeting requirements from regulations in the financial sector such as PCI DSS and FDIC.

Creates/maintains documentation and procedures pertaining to the supported Cloud platforms

Participates in and/or facilitates project delivery strategic planning and development associated with future design performance and capacity management with other retail operating organizations.

Leads and collaborates with other support teams with the remediation of audit and compliance requirements.

Relationships Maintains all vendor relationshipsand partners to support strategy and architectural design efforts for systems and technology that they support. Engages and collaborates with key vendors carriers and internal/external partners to support technical planning of mid to longterm initiatives. This may include planning build requirements project management SOW/BOM legal review service & maintenance contract review asset management training systems monitoring programming & tuning.

Documentation Creates reviews and maintains documentation of deployments systems and procedures relating to job/team responsibilities. Produces documentation as requested for internal customers audits and compliance purposes. Participates in the approval process. Reports and presents quarterly capacity analyses of licensing equipment and utilization.

Reports to: Manager or Higher

Direct Reports: None

Minimum Qualifications:

Degree Required: Bachelors Degree

Area of Study: Information Technology Computer Science

Years of Work Experience Required: Seven or more in Azure

Type / focus of work experience required: Systems Administration or Engineering work experience in area of specialization

Other Duties

This job description is illustrative of the types of duties typically performed by this job. It is not intended to be an exhaustive listing of each and every essential function of the job. Because job content may change from time to time the Company reserves the right to add and/or delete essential functions from this job at any time.

• All job offers are contingent upon successful completion of credit and background checks.

• Bread Financial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Job Family:

Information Technology

Job Type:

Regular