Principal Container Engineer

General information

Career area

Technology

Work Location(s)

601 S. Tryon Street, NC

Remote?

No

Ref #

17839

Posted Date

Friday, June 28, 2024

Working time

Full time

Ally and Your Career

Ally Financial only succeeds when its people do - and that's more than some cliché people put on job postings. We live this stuff! We see our people as, well, people - with interests, families, friends, dreams, and causes that are all important to them. Our focus is on the health and safety of our teammates as well as work-life balance and diversity and inclusion. From generous benefits to a variety of employee resource groups, we strive to build paths that encourage employees to stretch themselves professionally. We want to help you grow, develop, and learn new things. You're constantly evolving, so shouldn't your opportunities be, too?

Work Schedule: Ally designates roles as (1) fully on-site, (2) hybrid, or (3) fully remote. Hybrid roles are generally expected to be in the office a certain number of days per week as indicated by your manager. Your hiring manager will discuss this role's specific work requirements with you during the hiring process. All work requirements are subject to change at any time based on leader discretion and/or business need.

The Opportunity

At Ally, you get a startup feel, but experience the benefits of a company that's worked out the kinks and is fulfilling its purpose. We're always evolving and see that as a good thing. From owning our work to seeing its impact in the real world, our team is relentless in finding new ways technology can help make experiences better and help people. We are problem solvers, we value diverse thinking, we support one another, and we challenge ourselves to think bigger in the journey to deliver customer-obsessed tech solutions. To read more about what our tech team does, be sure to visit our tech blog at ally.tech

The Container Engineering team is looking for a hands-on subject matter expert to provide support for development and operation activities across the enterprise. In this role, you will be responsible in driving out automation capabilities for the full life cycle of infrastructure technologies hosted in the private and public cloud spaces. Design and development of best practices, meeting compliance requirements and internal security policies. You'll work with customers, developers, architects, and operations teams to troubleshoot and solve complex technical issues in a timely manner.

The Work Itself

• Developing automation capabilities utilizing Ansible, Python, Terraform, ArgoCD and Gitlab tools to help drive out updated methods for Openshift, EKS, and ECS

• Participate in proof of concepts to assist in defining technology direction and enabling business strategy

• Automation of operational tasks. Identify and contribute to automation activities. Implement automation that will support regular operational activities -- patching, health checks, application operational tasks etc.

• Enhance the Private Cloud infrastructure to establish self-service capabilities through automation to application teams and owners

• Develop and maintain Ally certified EC2 AMIs for the enterprise

• Assist in developing the roadmap for EKS and private cloud infrastructure

• Provides technical expertise in the establishment and implementation of standards and guidelines that guide the design of technology solutions including architecting and implementing solutions requiring integration of multiple platforms, operating systems, and applications across the enterprise

• Drive AI initiatives on and for a number of technologies throughout the enterprise

The Skills You Bring

Required:

• 5+ years as a Linux, Windows, Networking, and / or Storage expert with hands-on experience in Docker and Kubernetes

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent years of experience

• Strong DevOps/ CI/CD process architecture/engineering

• Engineering and architecting enterprise grade solutions for hardware and software issues

• Network familiarity as well as general application delivery and routing concepts

• Strong understanding of load-balancing, DNS (Domain Name Service), and networking expertise

• Automation and management technologies like ArgoCD, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management, and / or Ansible by Red Hat

• Version control technologies like Bitbucket and Git (GitHub or GitLab)

• Monitoring (APM) technologies such as Dynatrace and / or Prometheus and Grafana

Preferred:

• Amazon AWS Cloud products

• Familiar with database, middleware technologies

• Red Hat, AWS, Azure, Google, or IBM Cloud Certified Architect certification.

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How We'll Have Your Back

Ally's compensation program offers market-competitive base pay and pay-for-performance incentives (bonuses) based on achieving personal and company goals. Our Total Rewards program includes industry-leading compensation and benefits plus additional incentives that are designed to meet your needs and those of your family so you can get the most out of your career and your life, including:

• Time Away: 11 paid holidays, 20 paid time off days, and 8 hours of volunteer time off, yearly (paid time off is prorated based on start date)

• Planning for the Future: plan for the near and long term with an industry-leading 401K retirement savings plan with matching and company contributions, student loan pay downs and 529 educational save up assistance programs, tuition reimbursement, employee stock purchase plan, and financial learning center and financial coach access.

• Supporting your Health & Well-being: flexible health and insurance options including medical, dental and vision, employee, spouse and child life insurance, short- and long-term disability, pre-tax Health Savings Account with employer contributions, Healthcare FSA, critical illness, accident & hospital indemnity insurance, and a total well-being program that helps you and your family stay on track physically, socially, emotionally, and financially.

• Building a Family: adoption, surrogacy and fertility assistance as well as paid parental and caregiver leave, Dependent Day Care FSA back-up child and adult/elder care days and childcare discounts.

• Work-Life Integration: other benefits including Mentally Fit Employee Assistance Program, subsidized and discounted Weight Watchers program and other employee discount programs.

• Other compensations: depending on the role for which you are considered, you may be eligible for travel allowances, relocation assistance, a signing bonus and/or equity.

• To view more detailed information about Ally's Total Rewards, please visit this link: https://www.ally.com/content/dam/pdf/corporate/ally-total-rewards-snapshot.pdf

Who We Are:

Ally Financial is a customer-centric, leading digital financial services company with passionate customer service and innovative financial solutions. We are relentlessly focused on "Doing it Right" and being a trusted financial-services provider to our consumer, commercial, and corporate customers. For more information, visit www.ally.com.

Ally is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy status, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic disposition or any other reason protected by law.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical or mental disabilities. For accommodation requests, email us at work@ally.com. Ally will not discriminate against any qualified individual who is capable of performing the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.

Base Pay Range: An individual's position in the range is determined by the scope and responsibilities of the role, work experience, education, certification(s), training, and additional qualifications. We review internal pay, the competitive market, and business environment prior to extending an offer.

Emerging

110000

Experienced

145000

Expert

180000

Incentive Compensation: This position is eligible to participate in our annual incentive plan.