Cloud Resiliency Engineer & Automation Lead

KeyBank; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 63,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

KeyBank is seeking a Resiliency Engineer to design, build, and continuously improve the reliability of technology platforms across on-prem, hybrid, and cloud environments (GCP/Azure). This hands-on role emphasizes automation, distributed-system thinking, and collaboration with application, infrastructure, and cloud teams to meet recovery objectives.

The ideal candidate writes code, builds automation, and can participate in live recovery exercises while aligning with regulatory requirements and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field or equivalent work experience.
• Demonstrated experience in reliability engineering, DevOps, infrastructure, or technology operations.
• Hands-on coding and automation ability (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell) and IaC tooling (Terraform, Ansible).
• Working knowledge of on-premises infrastructure and public cloud platforms (GCP and/or Azure).
• Understanding of high-availability design: redundancy, replication, failover, and load balancing.
• Strong facilitation, analytical, problem-solving, and written/verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and code automation that reduces toil and enables automated recovery workflows.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code, scripts, and pipelines to provision and validate recovery environments.
• Build self-healing patterns and automated validation to prove recoverability.
• Partner with teams to assess architecture for reliability, redundancy, and recoverability.
• Plan disaster recovery tests and chaos experiments to reveal weaknesses.
• Improve monitoring, alerting, and observability for early degradation detection.
• Facilitate resiliency reviews and cross-team recovery walkthroughs; produce clear documentation.

Skills

Automation coding

Python

Bash

PowerShell

Terraform

Ansible

Reliability engineering

DevOps

Cloud platforms

On-prem & cloud

SRE concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes/GKE

Dynatrace

Prometheus

Grafana

Splunk

Cloud platforms (GCP/Azure)

Job description

KeyBank is seeking a Resiliency Engineer to design, build, and continuously improve the reliability of technology platforms across on-prem, hybrid, and cloud environments (GCP/Azure). This hands-on role emphasizes automation, distributed-system thinking, and collaboration with application, infrastructure, and cloud teams to meet recovery objectives.

The ideal candidate writes code, builds automation, and can participate in live recovery exercises while aligning with regulatory requirements and