Principal Lead - Infrastructure Admin

Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Ameriprise India LLP is seeking a lead middleware engineer to drive front-line activities for containerized applications on Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud platforms. You will coordinate incident response, collaborate with vendors, and guide design and engineering strategies to ensure security, uptime, and performance.

The role requires leadership in a dynamic support environment, with shift coverage and in-office collaboration.

Qualifications

• Must have strong hands-on experience with containerized middleware environments.
• Experience leading regional/global teams or projects is a plus.
• Good understanding of security, uptime, and performance in production deployments.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate middleware Tier 2.5 activities for containerized apps.
• Proactively monitor production environments and quickly respond to incidents.
• Collaborate with vendors/partners to design and implement solutions.
• Troubleshoot and resolve routine to semi-complex issues to minimize downtime.

Skills

AWS EKS

Kubernetes

Docker

Ansible

Jenkins

Job description

About Our Company

Ameriprise India LLP has been providing client based financial solutions to help clients plan and achieve their financial objectives for 20 years. We are part of Ameriprise Financial Inc., a US financial planning company headquartered in Minneapolis with a global presence and diversified financial services leader with more than $1.5 trillion in assets under management, administration and advisement as of year-end 2024. The firm’s focus areas include Asset Management and Advice, Retirement Planning and Insurance Protection.

Be part of an inclusive, collaborative culture that rewards you for your contributions, and work with other talented individuals who share your passion for doing great work. You’ll also have plenty of opportunities to make your mark at the office and a difference in your community. So, if you’re talented, driven and want to work for a strong, ethical company that cares, take the next step and create a career at Ameriprise India LLP.

Job Description

This is a lead position for which we want the candidate to be able to lead from the front and pioneer activities/tasks in the team. Add value to our current processes.

Job Description:

The resource will provide Middleware Tier 2.5 level of support and will support the containerized applications running on Kubernetes, Dockers, Apache, Tomcat, WAS, IIS, Container platform on Cloud (AWS EKS) middleware technologies. As a lead, need to support production environment by pro-actively monitoring and quickly responding to middleware incidents for one or more technologies within the technical area of expertise. Frequently collaborate with vendor/contractor partners to develop and implement detailed design, configuration and engineering strategies/solutions to resolve issues/incidents while remaining focused on security, up-time and performance. Provide troubleshooting and resolution to routine/semi-complex problems.

Must have skills:

• AWS EKS
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Ansible
• Jenkins

Good to have skills:

• Apache
• Tomcat
• WAS
• IIS

Support Shifts:

Shift will be rotational out of the following two ( 8 AM IST to 4:30 PM IST, 2 PM IST to 1030 PM IST). It will be a support role with demands to accomplish automation needs of the project.

In-Office Collaboration

We are a client-centric, relationship-based business. Working together, in-person, is foundational to how we achieve results. By fostering a culture of face-to-face collaboration, idea sharing, productivity and personal connection, we deliver for our stakeholders — clients, advisors, employees and shareholders. Our employees work in the office at least three (3) days per week, with flexibility to work from home two (2) days per week. Some roles may require additional in-office time or different in-office expectations, and specific requirements will be discussed during the hiring process.

Full-Time/Part-Time

Full time

Timings

(2:00p-10:30p)

India Business Unit

AWMPO AWMP&S President’s Office

Job Family Group

Technology

Ameriprise India LLP is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, genetic information, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, military status, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, family status or any other basis prohibited by law.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for individuals with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, speak to your recruiter to discuss how we can support you.