Vice President, Director for Release Engineering

POSITION

Vice President, Director for Release Engineering

LOCATION

Candidates must be commutable to their offices in Baltimore, MD or Irving, TX (preferred). Will also accept candidates that are local to Evansville IN, Charlotte NC, or Wilmington, DE.

must live within 50 miles of a OMF office

DURATION

6-12 mo

INTERVIEW TYPE

Video

VISA RESTRICTIONS

No Sponsorship

REQUIRED SKILLS

Vice President, Director for Release Engineering

With expertise and passion in solving difficult problems in distributed systems spanning both the public and private cloud and who thrives on working with a diverse set of partners and can articulate the business impact of a problem and can also dive deep into the technical solution. OneMain's products span AWS, IBM iSeries and zSeries (for our core lending systems) and a large footprint in AWS. The Site Reliability/DevOps Engineer is an impactful role under OMF's Productivity Engineering organization. The ideal candidate will not only be able to design and maintain scalable and reliable infrastructure, but also mentor junior DevOps engineers, collaborate with development teams, monitor and optimize system performance, stay abreast of emerging technologies, foster a culture of continuous improvement and learning, ensure security best practices, and collaborate with operation on incident response.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Design and maintain scalable and reliable infrastructure to support DevOps CI/CD Platform. Manage large scale implementations of Source Code Management solutions (SCM) and Code Management Systems (CMS).
• Define and implement best practices for branching strategies, deployment strategies, configuration and artifact management tools, in order to ensure projects are released using consistent and repeatable methodologies.
• Apply SRE principles to improve system reliability, scalability, and performance. Implement operational improvements to ensure high availability, low latency and optimal performance.
• Collaborate with the development and enabling teams to develop a curated set of tools across the technology portfolio.
• Leverage cloud architecture, applying site reliability principles, full-stack troubleshooting skills across network, application, security, Identity, OS, Containers, on-prem, and distributed services layers.
• Ensure security best practices are implemented throughout the infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
• Develop and implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to proactively identify and address issues.
• Conduct performance tuning, capacity planning, and system optimization to meet service level objectives (SLOs).
• Drive security assessments, vulnerability scans, and penetration tests.
• Collaborate with operations on incident response and lead post-mortem analysis to prevent future occurrences.

QUALIFICATIONS
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration or related technical field. Graduate degree preferred.
• 8+ years working with public cloud services providers specifically AWS - as a consumption of platform services and automation and scaling of services
• Excellent people management and leadership capabilities and ability to effectively prioritize, execute, and delegate tasks in a high-pressure environment
• Experience with advanced platform-based technologies - docker, Kubernetes, cloud foundry and Jenkins as an example
• Deep understanding of IT financial structures and ability to manage to corporate financial practices and goals, including drivers of process cost
• Experience working with a wide range of open-source tools and distribution engines
• Demonstrated success leading large-scale initiatives/transformations

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