Senior DevOps Engineer

Bank of America; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Bank of America is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to lead complex designs and set the architectural direction for modern database platforms. You will drive templates, playbooks, and automation to enable scalable, API-first solutions across MongoDB, Redis, and graph databases.

The role emphasizes resilience, governance, and enterprise integration while guiding teams toward best practices. You will collaborate with platform and cloud teams to ensure secure, compliant deployment

Qualifications

• 7+ years as an Infrastructure Engineer or similar role
• Define and own target architecture for modern database platforms across the enterprise
• Establish reference architectures, design patterns, and standards for MongoDB, Redis, and graph databases
• Evaluate and guide adoption of emerging database technologies aligned to enterprise needs
• Ensure architecture aligns with hybrid, multi-cloud, and sovereignty considerations
• Lead the creation of API-driven, self-service database platforms
• Define and implement service catalogs, golden deployment patterns, standardized provisioning workflows, reusable automation frameworks
• Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code and platform-as-a-product principles
• Ensure the platform delivers a consistent developer experience and rapid provisioning
• Architect database services for resilience including multi-region/high availability
• Lead performance engineering including sharding, caching patterns, scaling models
• Define and enforce SLOs/SLAs and reliability benchmarks

Responsibilities

• Serves as a consultant on a broad range of technologies and platforms to drive business outcomes
• Develops software solutions to address manual or inefficient processes and informs architecture strategies
• Translates business requirements into technical definitions and deployment playbooks
• Participates in steering committees for technical and infrastructure domains
• Leads evaluation of reference models and blueprints for fit and future needs
• Mentors team members to ensure adherence to enterprise design standards
• Creates an inclusive, collaborative environment and helps resolve blockers

Skills

Infrastructure design

Architecture strategy

Hybrid/multi-cloud

API-driven platforms

IaC adoption

Automation frameworks

Performance engineering

Tools

MongoDB

Redis

Graph databases

Neo4j

Stardog

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 is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates' physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.

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

Job Summary

This job is responsible for leading the most complex technical designs that enable business strategies in accordance with architectural governance, standards and policies. Key responsibilities include facilitating deployment of the most complex technical solutions by developing templates, playbooks and automation used during implementation. Job expectations include consistently looking for opportunities to improve the reliability and efficiency of implementing the services, and influencing a culture of innovation and continuous improvement. You will act as a technical authority and platform owner, driving architecture, standards, and engineering practices across a portfolio of modern data technologies including:

• MongoDB
• Redis
• Graph databases (e.g., GraphDB, Neo4j, Stardog)
• Emerging distributed and specialized data platforms

This role operates at the intersection of:

• Database engineering
• Platform engineering
• Cloud/infrastructure architecture
• Security and compliance integration

You will ensure platforms are:

• Highly resilient and scalable
• API-first and automation-driven
• Simple and intuitive for internal consumers
• Fully integrated into enterprise systems, controls, and workflows

Responsibilities

• Serves as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms, and vendor offerings to drive targeted business outcomes
• Develops software solutions to address manual and repeatable work or inefficient processes and contributes to the technology strategy for end-to-end engineering solutions and provides feedback to the architecture teams
• Translates business requirements into technical definitions, reference models, blueprints, and playbooks for deployment in compliance with architecture standards and policies
• Participates in various steering committees for technical and infrastructure service domains
• Leads the evaluation of reference models, blueprints and playbooks to ensure they are fit for purpose
• Mentors and guides team members to ensure system design technology solutions comply with enterprise system design and engineering standards
• Creates an inclusive and healthy working environment and help to resolve organizational impediments/blockers

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years as an Infrastructure Engineer or working in a similar function
• Define and own the target architecture and engineering strategy for modern database platforms across the enterprise
• Establish reference architectures, design patterns, and standards for document (MongoDB), in-memory (Redis), graph/knowledge graph platforms
• Evaluate and guide adoption of emerging database technologies aligned to enterprise needs (e.g., AI/GraphRAG, real-time processing, fraud/KYC use cases)
• Ensure architecture aligns with hybrid, multi-cloud, and sovereignty considerations
• Lead the creation of API-driven, self-service database platforms that abstract complexity from application teams
• Define and implement, service catalogs, golden deployment patterns, standardized provisioning workflows, reusable automation frameworks
• Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code and platform-as-a-product principles
• Ensure the platform delivers, consistent developer experience, rapid provisioning, standardized configurations, built-in governance and controls
• Architect database services for enterprise-grade resilience, including multi-region/multi-site high availability, failover and disaster recovery strategies, backup/restore frameworks
• Lead performance engineering, including sharding and partitioning strategies, caching patterns (e.g., Redis integration), workload isolation and scaling models
• Define and enforce SLOs/SLAs and reliability benchmarks