Your Opportunity
At Schwab, you're empowered to make an impact on your career.
Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us "challenge the status quo" and transform the finance industry together.
A career in our cloud database and storage team within Platform Engineering, will provide you with the opportunity to focus on joint relationship between Cloud Services and various application teams to bring new and innovative solutions.
You will be at the forefront of helping application teams within Schwab adopt innovative cloud solutions that optimize business processes or enable scalable technology.
As Senior Software Engineer Lead with Cloud focus, you will use sophisticated analytical thought to exercise judgement and design innovative solutions.
You will lead multiple highly complex projects of diverse scope, act as a subject matter expert and collaborate with customers, peers, internal and external partners.
You will design, build, update, and troubleshoot cloud infrastructure.
The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of Cloud platforms with a focus on Databases and related components like IAM, Network and Security.
This will be hands-on engineering role on architectural side of development process in support of Schwab's Cloud Databases for various business initiatives.
Design, Document and build complex Cloud DB solutions Provide well documented architecture, design, RAID logs, review existing state, offer alternative state solutions Understanding up-and-down stream impact of changes and proposals Develop and automate infrastructure with Terraform Creating reusable, modular orchestrated code to deploy resources.
Analyzing complex ideas or proposals and build a range of meaningful recommendations.
Championing managing cloud environments in accordance with cloud best practices and security guidelines.
Collaborating with Product Teams, architects, and Engineers to deliver positive cloud deployment experiences Mentoring junior developers in design patterns, best practices, and software development strategy Participating in an on-call rotation that provides 24x7 platform support.
Staying technically curious, research and implement new technical solutions Identifying and influence ways to improve our technology, process & performance Participating in an agile scrum-based software development environment Exceling in fast-paced customer focused environment which embraces the newest technologies and techniques.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills What you have Minimum 10 years' experience working within Enterprise IT with Bachelor of Computer Science, or equivalent relevant work experience.
5-7 years' experience of development languages; to include but not limited to Terraform, Bicep, JSON, Python, JavaScript, or YAML.
7+ years' experience in public cloud environments - GCP, AWS, Azure, or equivalent experience Deep understanding of Cloud Native technologies in Infrastructure layer, Provisioning layer, Runtime layer, Orchestration layer and Application development layer, Expert knowledge of configuration and best practices around Cloud resources to include VMs, VNETs, Security Groups, IAM, Key Management, SQL, Cosmos DB, Private Link, Kubernetes, Data Bricks, etc.
Advanced knowledge of cloud-native resources and deployment to ensure scalability, resiliency, performance, and reliability.
Advanced trouble shooting capabilities of Cloud and Infrastructure Services.
Experience working within a Dev Ops framework using CI/CD pipelines.
Experience with Atlassian suite of products to include JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket & Bamboo.
Knowledge of cloud database and storage concepts.