Principal Digital Assets Engineer

RiseMe; Westlake (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onsite working model

Job summary

Fidelity Investments in Texas seeks a Principal Digital Assets Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable multi-region Kubernetes-based cloud infrastructure on AWS. The role focuses on EKS deployments, Terraform IaC, and DevOps practices to support financial systems.

You will mentor teams, contribute to architecture decisions, and drive automation with Python, Bash, and Jenkins pipelines. Onsite presence is part of Fidelity's model.

Qualifications

• 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 CD pipelines; integrating Datadog logging, synthetics, and dashboards.
• DE automating deployment of advanced multi-region EKS-based cloud solutions on AWS; performing cluster upgrades with Terraform; configuring Aurora Postgres clusters in multi-region deployments; troubleshooting and networking in Linux environments.
• DE automation, tooling and integration for SRE using Git, Python, Bash, boto3; performing secure-code practices and PR processes.

Responsibilities

• Participates in architecture design teams; works with engineering partners to enable 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 issues.
• Provides technology solutions to daily issues and estimates on technology initiatives.
• Mentors junior team members.
• Develops original and creative technical solutions to ongoing development efforts.
• Communicates complex subject-matter clearly to various audiences.

Job description

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.

Certifications

Category

Information Technology

Fidelity’s Onsite Working Model
Fidelity is transitioning to a full-time onsite working model through a phased rollout across regions and roles. Currently, some roles and locations require 100% onsite presence, while others require less. Onsite expectations are likely to evolve as the rollout continues. This transition does not apply to fully remote roles.

Please be advised that Fidelity’s business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.