Principal Digital Assets Engineer

Soteria Reinsurance Ltd.; Town of Texas, Northern (WI, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Soteria Reinsurance Ltd. seeks a Principal Digital Assets Engineer to design, implement, and maintain scalable multi-region AWS-based infrastructure using EKS, Terraform, and Datadog integrations. You will lead architectural initiatives, develop observability tooling, and mentor junior staff.

You will collaborate with engineering partners to deliver secure, high-availability cloud solutions, participate in architecture reviews, and drive DevOps practices across the stack.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 5 years’ experience as Principal Digital Assets Engineer in financial services.
• Alternative: Master’s degree and 3 years’ experience in the same role.
• Experience with AWS EKS, Terraform, and Datadog integration.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes multi-region deployments.

Responsibilities

• Participates in architecture design and drives initiatives from design to implementation.
• Develops observability solutions with dashboards and alerts.
• Documents applications and subsystems comprehensively.
• Leads on-call support for EKS workloads.
• Mentors junior team members.

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

Python

Git

Linux

AWS

Jenkins

Datadog

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IT

Master's degree in CS/Engineering/IT

Tools

Datadog

Helm

Jenkins

Docker

EKS

Job description

Position Description:Designs highly available, secure, scalable multi-region microservices-based solutions in Amazon Web Services (AWS). Builds secure/hardened multi-layer Linux-based Docker images supporting engineering partner needs. On-boards containerized applications and resources to Kubernetes using custom-built Helm Charts and libraries. Maintains production and non-production Kubernetes Clusters on AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Provides technical leadership to teams and production on-call support for EKS workloads. Promotes a DevOps mentality, provides mentorship, and establishes development standard methodologies for AWS Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Assists engineering partners with on-boarding of new Kafka/Confluent solutions. Crafts and deploys applications to the cloud using Jenkins pipelines and automation. Troubleshoots Linux-based operating systems issues efficiently. Develops Python scripts, tools, and utilities using latest techniques and best-practices.Primary Responsibilities:* Participates in architecture design teams; works closely with engineering partners to help enable and drive initiatives from design to implementation.* Develops observability solutions -- dashboards, alerts, and synthetics.* Develops comprehensive documentation for multiple applications or subsystems.* Responsible for meeting project goals on-time and on-budget.* Advises on risk assessment and risk management strategies for projects.* Plans and coordinates project schedules and assignments for multiple projects.* Acts as a primary liaison for business unit product area(s) to resolve various project/technology issues.* Provides technology solutions to daily issues and technical evaluation estimates on technology initiatives.* Mentors junior team members.* Develops original and creative technical solutions to on-going development efforts.* Communicates complex subject-matter clearly and with various audiences.Education and Experience:Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and five (5) years of experience as a Principal Digital Assets Engineer (or closely related occupation) designing, developing, and maintaining scalable infrastructure solutions using Amazon EKS, AWS Cloud Services, and Terraform (IaC) within a financial services industry.Or, alternatively, Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and three (3) years of experience as a Principal Digital Assets Engineer (or closely related occupation) designing, developing, and maintaining scalable infrastructure solutions using Amazon EKS, AWS Cloud Services, and Terraform (IaC) within a financial services industry.Skills and Knowledge:Candidate must also possess:* Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) designing, implementing, and supporting highly available multi-region Kubernetes clusters for mission-critical financial systems on Amazon EKS; deploying applications and upgrades to clusters using Helm and Jenkins Core Continuous Delivery (CD) pipelines; and integrating Datadog logging, Datadog synthetics, and Datadog dashboards, to preempt or surface issues to on-call.* DE designing, implementing, and automating deployment of advanced multi-region EKS-based cloud solutions on AWS; performing cluster upgrades of production systems to maintain production systems with zero downtime using Terraform; configuring and maintaining Aurora Postgres clusters in multi-region cloud deployments using Terraform; and troubleshooting, networking, and debugging systems using Linux (Debian, Alpine, and Ubuntu).* DE performing automation, tooling, and integration functions to support SRE use-cases using Git, Python, Bash shell scripting, and boto3; and performing source-code management and review to resolve Git merge conflicts, execute the pull-request process, and implement secure-code practices using Git and secure-development tools.* DE performing source-code development tasks to execute version control operations using Git command-line tools; performing coding in Python language using boto3 in a Linux-based environment; and performing bash shell scripting for automation of tasks in Linux environments.