DevOps Engineer II - AWS

Bank of America; Pennington (NJ); On-site; USD 107,000 - 149,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits eligible

Job summary

Bank of America is seeking a senior Cloud Engineering/DevOps professional to join the HPS Cloud Engineering team in New Jersey. The role focuses on configuring complex software delivery automation, building CI/CD pipelines, and implementing secure, scalable AWS infrastructure with Terraform across Dev, SIT, and Prod.

You will work within an in-office culture with a strong emphasis on collaboration, governance, and career development, while leveraging a modern cloud toolkit to support healthcare

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 7–10 years of relevant cloud, infrastructure, or solutions engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services (VPC, EC2, ECS/EKS, IAM, Route 53, S3, RDS, CloudWatch).
• Proven experience with Terraform, including module development, state management, and debugging.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines including build, scan, approval, and deployment workflows.
• Experience with cloud security practices, vulnerability remediation and compliance requirements.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools.
• Understanding of networking, load balancing, and application connectivity in AWS environments.
• Experience working across multi-environment deployments (Dev, Test, Prod).
• Strong troubleshooting skills across infrastructure and application deployment layers.
• Ability to work in Agile delivery models and manage concurrent priorities.
• Excellent communication skills with ability to work across engineering and leadership teams.

Responsibilities

• Configures and maintains CI/CD tooling and validates access controls across the SDLC.
• Onboards applications servers to CI/CD platforms with prerequisites configured.
• Monitors KPI-driven CI/CD services and manages incidents with action plans for stakeholders.
• Mentors DevOps Engineers and clarifies best practices.
• Collaborates with Infra, Solutions, and SRE teams on changes to CI/CD components and monitoring.
• Implements security controls and change tickets for CI/CD onboarding and decommissioning.
• Designs, builds, and maintains AWS infrastructure using Terraform (IaC).
• Develops and supports secure CI/CD pipelines with validation, scanning, and gates.
• Implements cloud architectures with high availability and multi-region patterns.
• Ensures auditability and repeatable deployments across environments.

Skills

Analytical Thinking

Collaboration

DevOps Practices

Result Orientation

Solution Delivery Process

Adaptability

Application Development

Influence

Innovative Thinking

Risk Management

Architecture

Project Management

Solution Design

Stakeholder Management

Technical Strategy Development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Docker

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

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 and providing a culture of caring is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. We are intentional about fostering an inclusive workplace where every teammate has the opportunity to succeed, build a career and contribute to our shared success. This includes attracting and developing exceptional talent, recognizing and rewarding performance, and supporting our teammates' physical, emotional, and financial wellness through affordable, competitive and flexible benefits.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture that supports collaboration, engagement, and career development. Our approach includes clear in-office expectations, while providing an appropriate level of flexibility based on role-specific responsibilities and business needs.

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

Job Description

This job is responsible for configuring complex software delivery automation. Key responsibilities include ensuring software deployments are configured to meet access, ownership, and authentication standards. This job may modify code for software deployment automation and ensures software promotion pipelines for complex/high availability applications follow Continuous Delivery best practices. Job expectations include the ability to integrate development, testing practices, software delivery tools, and runtime application standards at the bank.

Position Summary

The HPS Cloud Engineering/DevOps team builds and operates a highly secure, regulated AWS platform supporting healthcare payment systems. The team owns Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CI/CD pipelines with security gating, and platform reliability across environments. The platform is evolving toward multi-region resiliency and cloud-native deployment pattern.

Responsibilities

• Configures and maintains the set of tools and services that provide Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) services and validates access control mechanisms for the Software and Infrastructure Engineering team throughout the software development lifecycle
• Reviews the configuration of applications servers to confirm that CI/CD service platform onboarding pre-requisites are available and configured properly
• Monitors and responds to alerts based on the key performance indicators (KPI) for the services supporting CI/CD and escalated events and issues from DevOps Engineers, creating issues and action-plan summaries for stakeholders
• Mentors and clarifies issues and practices for DevOps Engineers
• Works with Infrastructure, Solutions Engineers, and Site Reliability Engineers to understand changes in CI/CD service platform components and behaviors and planned changes in monitoring and alerting capabilities
• Responds to risk or audit identified issues with access control processed designed for compliance with firm separation of duties practices, and software release management standards and policies
• Executes change tickets for CI/CD service onboarding and decommissioning using approved change management processes as scheduled by Software or Infrastructure Engineers
• Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform (IaC)
• Develop and support secure CI/CD pipelines with validation, scanning, and approval gates
• Implement cloud architecture patterns including high availability, failover, and multi-region designs
• Support platform standardization and governance, ensuring auditability and repeatable deployments
• Collaborate with application teams to onboard and migrate workloads to cloud infrastructure
• Monitor and optimize cloud resources for performance, cost, and reliability
• Implement and support security controls, including vulnerability remediation and compliance requirements
• Troubleshoot platform and deployment issues across environments (Dev, SIT, Prod)
• Maintain documentation, runbooks, and deployment standards to support consistent execution
• Participate in release activities and ensure safe, controlled deployments

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 7-10 years of relevant experience in cloud, infrastructure, or solutions engineering
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services (e.g., VPC, EC2, ECS/EKS, IAM, Route 53, S3, RDS, CloudWatch)
• Proven experience with Terraform, including module development, state management, and debugging
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines including build, scan, approval, and deployment workflows
• Experience with cloud security practices, vulnerability remediation and compliance requirements
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools
• Understanding of networking, load balancing, and application connectivity in AWS environments
• Experience working across multi-environment deployments (Dev, Test, Prod)
• Strong troubleshooting skills across infrastructure and application deployment layers
• Ability to work in Agile delivery models and manage concurrent priorities
• Excellent communication skills with ability to work across engineering and leadership teams

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with containerized platforms and image management (Docker, ECS/EKS)
• Experience with security scanning tools and vulnerability management processes
• Exposure to blue/green deployments, progressive routing, or traffic shifting strategies
• Experience working in regulated environments (financial services, healthcare, etc.)
• Familiarity with Java/Ruby/,NET application environments.
• Experience with automation and scripting (Python, Bash)
• Knowledge of multi-region and disaster recovery architectures

Skills

• Analytical Thinking
• Collaboration
• DevOps Practices
• Result Orientation
• Solution Delivery Process
• Adaptability
• Application Development
• Influence
• Innovative Thinking
• Risk Management
• Architecture
• Project Management
• Solution Design
• Stakeholder Management
• Technical Strategy Development

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

40

Pay Transparency details

US - NJ - Pennington - 1300 American Blvd - Hopewell Bldg 3 (NJ2130)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$107,000.00 - $148,900.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.

Discretionary incentive eligible

This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.

Benefits

This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.