DevOps Engineer
Apply NowCompany: M&T Bank Corporation
Location: Buffalo, NY 14221
Description:
This role offers a hybrid work schedule; offering the flexibility to work from home two days a week, while providing the opportunity for in-person collaboration.
At M&T Tech, we're a team of makers, doers, and builders, working to create the most advanced technology solutions in banking. We're not your stereotypical suit and tie bankers: we're an innovative team of leading tech experts, pushing boundaries, and taking risks. We're building an agile team of the most skilled and creative workers to solve complex problems, architect solutions, write high-performance software, and chart our new path, all to make the lives of our customers, and the communities that we serve, better. Join us and be part of something new as we build tomorrow's bank, today.
The Technology Infrastructure Engineering and Operations Team engineers and supports all the foundational technology used across M&T Bank. We support two Data Centers, 15,000 Distributed platforms, 24 Mainframe Regions, a secure and reliable Network connecting all the technology across the bank footprint and process approximately 635,000 automated jobs per month. In addition to that foundational technology level, we own the operational support processes, monitoring and command center that provide a unified, well-managed technology response when issues arise. We deliver innovative, and compelling technology solutions, in partnership with our line of business CIOs, to enhance the internal customer experience that enables our business partners to deliver.
Overview:
We are looking for a DevOps automation engineer to join our Module Infrastructure Development team with a strong background in traditional infrastructure, modern cloud infrastructure, and automation. You'll be working with all divisions of IT from Networking, Cybersecurity, Platforms and Operating systems, Operations, and Development to automate the creation of standard infrastructure solutions using Terraform Automation. You'll work with fellow engineers and application development teams to ensure the quality, interoperability, and security of bank services through thoughtful design and automation.
Technical Engineers are consultants and thought leaders with great business acumen and powerful technology skills.
We are looking for an engineer who is passionate about automation, process improvement, and the elimination of manual tasks-An engineer that wants to foster a culture of learning, experimentation, and innovation.
Responsibilities:
Work to improve existing bank infrastructure, striving for convergence to DevOps 'Infrastructure as Code' pipelines.
Collaborate closely with Technology engineering and support teams to implement, develop, and execute technical solutions.
Conduct research and development of new or expanded infrastructure systems.
Perform unit testing, system integration and user acceptance testing.
Independently interact with business partners to ensure understanding of the problems and opportunities and elicit business requirements.
Mentor and coach less experienced engineers, technicians, and integrators.
Review documentation, proposals and changes proposed by peers and less-experienced staff.
Continuously seek to expand knowledge and understanding of financial services trends, practices, and technologies.
Follow and promote the use of industry best practices, standards, and procedures.
Build a strong working knowledge of M&T applications, systems, and development environments.
Understand and adhere to the bank's risk and regulatory standards, policies, and controls in accordance with the bank's risk appetite.
Identify, rank, mitigate and escalate the risk to management.
Promote an environment that supports diversity and reflects the M&T Bank brand.
Maintain M&T internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable.
Perform other related duties as assigned.
Education and Experience Required:
Combined minimum of 6 years' higher education and/or work experience in systems design, management and/or architecture
Understanding of source-control management
Experience with technical design documentation
Demonstratable Understanding of orchestration, configuration-management, and automation frameworks, such as Ansible.
Private cloud IaaS automation using interpreted languages such as Python, JavaScript, bash, or PowerShell. May be supplanted with other programming competencies.
Public Cloud platforms, such as AWS, Azure, GCP
Security principles, including Role Based Access Control and Least-Privilege.
Virtualization services (VMware, Hyper-V, etc.)
IaaS Management platforms (vSphere, OpenStack, etc.)
Server Operating System Administration
Database platforms
Source Control and Infrastructure as Code principles
LDAP, Directory Services and Authentication
ITIL, ITSM and SDLC practices
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Effective influencing skills
Process-oriented, logical thinker
Strong knowledge of server/client and virtual technologies
Ability to complete complex tasks with minimal supervision.
Education and Experience Preferred:
Understanding of:
Infrastructure and Policy as Code frameworks such as Terraform, Sentinel
Version control systems such as Gitlab, Github, Azure DevOps
Experience in continuous Integration tools and practices such as Gitlab CI, Github Actions
Containerization / Kubernetes methods and concepts
Ability to translate business and functional requirements into structured high-quality implementations using any variety of industry standard approaches.
Demonstrated advanced technical and analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
Verifiable knowledge and expertise in industry practices and vendor technologies
Ability to meet with clients to gather, document, and analyze system specifications and requirements, work closely with project integrators, developers, and testers in a fast-paced environment.
Ability to work both independently and collaboratively with others in team environment.
Ability to use effective facilitation skills and techniques to elicit and review requirements from a diverse range of stakeholders and group size.
Understanding of how the people, processes and technology within an organization interact in relationships and patterns to create a feasible solution on projects of medium to high complexity.
PCI, SOX and Financial Services regulatory considerations
API integration and development (REST/JSON)
We support our team members with generous benefits.
About M&T
M&T Bank is committed to fair, competitive, and market-informed pay for our employees. The pay range for this position is $93,581.10 - $155,968.51 Annual (USD). The successful candidate's particular combination of knowledge, skills, and experience will inform their specific compensation.
Location
Buffalo, New York, United States of America
At M&T Tech, we're a team of makers, doers, and builders, working to create the most advanced technology solutions in banking. We're not your stereotypical suit and tie bankers: we're an innovative team of leading tech experts, pushing boundaries, and taking risks. We're building an agile team of the most skilled and creative workers to solve complex problems, architect solutions, write high-performance software, and chart our new path, all to make the lives of our customers, and the communities that we serve, better. Join us and be part of something new as we build tomorrow's bank, today.
The Technology Infrastructure Engineering and Operations Team engineers and supports all the foundational technology used across M&T Bank. We support two Data Centers, 15,000 Distributed platforms, 24 Mainframe Regions, a secure and reliable Network connecting all the technology across the bank footprint and process approximately 635,000 automated jobs per month. In addition to that foundational technology level, we own the operational support processes, monitoring and command center that provide a unified, well-managed technology response when issues arise. We deliver innovative, and compelling technology solutions, in partnership with our line of business CIOs, to enhance the internal customer experience that enables our business partners to deliver.
Overview:
We are looking for a DevOps automation engineer to join our Module Infrastructure Development team with a strong background in traditional infrastructure, modern cloud infrastructure, and automation. You'll be working with all divisions of IT from Networking, Cybersecurity, Platforms and Operating systems, Operations, and Development to automate the creation of standard infrastructure solutions using Terraform Automation. You'll work with fellow engineers and application development teams to ensure the quality, interoperability, and security of bank services through thoughtful design and automation.
Technical Engineers are consultants and thought leaders with great business acumen and powerful technology skills.
We are looking for an engineer who is passionate about automation, process improvement, and the elimination of manual tasks-An engineer that wants to foster a culture of learning, experimentation, and innovation.
Responsibilities:
Work to improve existing bank infrastructure, striving for convergence to DevOps 'Infrastructure as Code' pipelines.
Collaborate closely with Technology engineering and support teams to implement, develop, and execute technical solutions.
Conduct research and development of new or expanded infrastructure systems.
Perform unit testing, system integration and user acceptance testing.
Independently interact with business partners to ensure understanding of the problems and opportunities and elicit business requirements.
Mentor and coach less experienced engineers, technicians, and integrators.
Review documentation, proposals and changes proposed by peers and less-experienced staff.
Continuously seek to expand knowledge and understanding of financial services trends, practices, and technologies.
Follow and promote the use of industry best practices, standards, and procedures.
Build a strong working knowledge of M&T applications, systems, and development environments.
Understand and adhere to the bank's risk and regulatory standards, policies, and controls in accordance with the bank's risk appetite.
Identify, rank, mitigate and escalate the risk to management.
Promote an environment that supports diversity and reflects the M&T Bank brand.
Maintain M&T internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable.
Perform other related duties as assigned.
Education and Experience Required:
Combined minimum of 6 years' higher education and/or work experience in systems design, management and/or architecture
Understanding of source-control management
Experience with technical design documentation
Demonstratable Understanding of orchestration, configuration-management, and automation frameworks, such as Ansible.
Private cloud IaaS automation using interpreted languages such as Python, JavaScript, bash, or PowerShell. May be supplanted with other programming competencies.
Public Cloud platforms, such as AWS, Azure, GCP
Security principles, including Role Based Access Control and Least-Privilege.
Virtualization services (VMware, Hyper-V, etc.)
IaaS Management platforms (vSphere, OpenStack, etc.)
Server Operating System Administration
Database platforms
Source Control and Infrastructure as Code principles
LDAP, Directory Services and Authentication
ITIL, ITSM and SDLC practices
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Effective influencing skills
Process-oriented, logical thinker
Strong knowledge of server/client and virtual technologies
Ability to complete complex tasks with minimal supervision.
Education and Experience Preferred:
Understanding of:
Infrastructure and Policy as Code frameworks such as Terraform, Sentinel
Version control systems such as Gitlab, Github, Azure DevOps
Experience in continuous Integration tools and practices such as Gitlab CI, Github Actions
Containerization / Kubernetes methods and concepts
Ability to translate business and functional requirements into structured high-quality implementations using any variety of industry standard approaches.
Demonstrated advanced technical and analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
Verifiable knowledge and expertise in industry practices and vendor technologies
Ability to meet with clients to gather, document, and analyze system specifications and requirements, work closely with project integrators, developers, and testers in a fast-paced environment.
Ability to work both independently and collaboratively with others in team environment.
Ability to use effective facilitation skills and techniques to elicit and review requirements from a diverse range of stakeholders and group size.
Understanding of how the people, processes and technology within an organization interact in relationships and patterns to create a feasible solution on projects of medium to high complexity.
PCI, SOX and Financial Services regulatory considerations
API integration and development (REST/JSON)
We support our team members with generous benefits.
- Competitive compensation
- Health, welfare, and retirement benefits
- 401(k) match at 5%
- Work-life balance and flexible work arrangements
- Banking Officers start with 25 days PTO plus 12 paid holidays
- 40 hours paid volunteer hours per year
- Much more. For details, see: M&T Benefits Overview
About M&T
- M&T Bank is a Top 20 US bank holding company and one of the best performing and financial stable regional banks in the country, we offer our technology employees a wide range of performance-based career development opportunities. We have a strong commitment to our customers and the communities we serve, and we continue to grow with a focus on the future. So, when looking to advance your career, look to M&T. Grow with us.
M&T Bank is committed to fair, competitive, and market-informed pay for our employees. The pay range for this position is $93,581.10 - $155,968.51 Annual (USD). The successful candidate's particular combination of knowledge, skills, and experience will inform their specific compensation.
Location
Buffalo, New York, United States of America