Data Engineer

Lead II - Cloud Infrastructure Services

 

Who We Are:

Born digital, UST transforms lives through the power of technology. We walk alongside our clients and partners, embedding innovation and agility into everything they do. We help them create transformative experiences and human-centered solutions for a better world.

UST is a mission-driven group of 29,000+ practical problem solvers and creative thinkers in more than 30 countries. Our entrepreneurial teams are empowered to innovate, act nimbly, and create a lasting and sustainable impact for our clients, their customers, and the communities in which we live.

With us, you’ll create a boundless impact that transforms your career—and the lives of people across the world.

Visit us at UST.com.

 

You Are:

UST is searching for a Data Engineer who will provide technical leadership across multiple teams, from different business units, guiding architectural decisions and ensuring adherence to best practices.

 

The opportunity:

·       Architect, build, document, and maintain Cloud standards and processes

·       Collaborate extensively with centralized architecture, engaging in deep collaboration to align cloud strategies with enterprise architecture principles and standards.

·       Additionally, demonstrate the ability to flex into Business units, understanding their processes and ways of doing things, and integrating cloud solutions to support their specific needs and objectives.

·       Lead projects and new application implementations

·       Create new Terraform architecture and modules to provision AWS resources.

·       Guide teams on best practices in the cloud

·       Provide mentorship and training to junior and senior engineers, sharing knowledge and experience in cloud technologies, system wide architectural design, and best practices.

·       Lead project management activities, including decomposing work into manageable tasks, coordinating with stakeholders, and tracking progress.

·       Facilitate agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives, ensuring the team follows agile practices.

·       Work with Software Development teams to write and tune their application Helm charts for EKS

·       Create, manage, and administrate Kubernetes running on EKS.

·       Create and modify Jenkins pipelines to support CI and automation

·       Performance Engineering, load testing, hotspot isolation, and remediation

·       POC new solutions and production in the cloud

·       Configure APM, SLO, SLA and ing via Dynatrace

·       Configure log metrics and analysis via Splunk

·       Build and manage CI deployment process for all environments

·       Support and enable teams to migrate from on-prem environments into AWS What your background looks like

·       Explaining & presenting complex to complicated technical matters to technical and non-technical people

·       Create automation for anything that is repeatable and can be automated.

 

 

This position description identifies the responsibilities and tasks typically associated with the performance of the position. Other relevant essential functions may be required.

 

What you need:

·       Expertise in working with container deployment and orchestration technologies at scale with strong knowledge of the fundamentals to include service discovery, deployments, monitoring, scheduling, load balancing.

·       Knowledge of best practices related to security, performance, and high availability.

·       Highly skilled in identifying performance bottlenecks, identifying anomalous system behavior, and determining the root cause of incidents.

·       Experience working with APM and log aggregation tools as well as configuring the integrations and monitoring needed to leverage these tools.

·       You've demonstrated the ability to effectively work collaboratively across functions and communicate between many different teams.

·       Interest in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.

·       Systematic problem-solving approach coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.

·       Ability to debug and optimize code and automate routine tasks

·       Strong ability to decompose large complex bodies of work into actionable stories for others to engage and execute

·       Ability to communicate to both technical and executive level people on problem & opportunity things and progress towards goals

·       Experience with leading application migrations into the cloud according to best practices, standards and cloud-native architecture.

·       You are passionate about building and running distributed systems at scale in production.

·       You understand the challenges and trade-offs to be made when building and deploying systems to production.

·       Expert level experience and understanding of Terraform

·       Expert level diagraming and explaining complex or complicated systems

·       Expert level experience with AWS services o EC2, ASG, SG, ALB/NLB/WAF, ACL, Routing, Route53, Express Connect/Transit Gateway, EC2 Image Builder, EKS, ECS, ECR, Lambda

·       Experienced in AWS database technologies

·       Nice to have: AWS big data services

·       Experienced using Git based CI/CD pipelines

·       Experienced in utilizing various infrastructure and dependency discovery tools/agents

·       Experienced writing Jenkins files and Jenkins Shared Libraries

·       Expert level with EKS creation and administration

·       Expert level with Kubernetes application deployment and management

·       Experienced writing and maintaining custom application Helm charts and Helm template libraries

·       Expert level written and oral communication skills

·       Expert level scripting in languages such as powershell, Bash, Python, Perl, and/or GoLang

·       Demonstrate expertise in Kubernetes, including cluster management, deployment strategies, and best practices for container orchestration.

·       Possess advanced skills in AWS, including advanced networking, security, and optimization techniques, and stay current with new AWS services and features.

 

 

Benefits

Employees receive eleven (11) paid holidays, two (2) weeks of paid vacation per year, and are eligible for health, dental, disability and life insurance.

What we believe:

We proudly embrace the values that have shaped UST since day one. We build our culture of Humility, Humanity, and Integrity. These values inspire us to nurture a people-first, human centric culture that fosters diversity, prioritizes sustainable solutions, and keeps our people and clients at the forefront of all decisions.

Humility:

We will listen, learn, be empathetic and help selflessly in our interactions with everyone.

Humanity:

Through business, we will better the lives of those less fortunate than ourselves.

Integrity:

We honor our commitments and act with responsibility in all our relationships.

An Equal Opportunity Workplace, Free of Discrimination and Harassment

At UST, we strive to provide a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. We are an equal opportunity employer and employment decisions are based on merit and business needs. Our Human Rights Policy further illustrates our stand on this. We are committed to following fair employment practices that provide equal opportunities to all employees. We do not discriminate or allow harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, disability, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, genetic information, military status, or any other legally protected status. At UST, we value diversity and believe that a diverse workplace builds a competitive advantage.

Un lugar de trabajo con igualdad de oportunidades y libre de discriminación y acoso

En UST, nos esforzamos por proporcionar un ambiente de trabajo libre de discriminación y acoso. Somos un empleador que ofrece igualdad de oportunidades y basa las decisiones de empleo en los méritos y las necesidades del negocio. Estamos comprometidos a seguir prácticas de empleo justas que brinden igualdad de oportunidades a todos los empleados. No discriminamos ni permitimos el acoso por motivos de raza, color, religión, discapacidad, género, origen nacional, orientación sexual, identidad de género, expresión de género, edad, información genética, estado militar o cualquier otro estado legalmente protegido. En UST, valoramos la diversidad y creemos que un lugar de trabajo diverso construye una ventaja competitiva.

UST reserves the right to periodically redefine your roles and responsibilities based on the requirements of the organization and/or your performance.

 

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