Lead Cloud Security Engineer
1750 Tysons (12023), United States of America, McLean, Virginia
Lead Cloud Security Engineer
We are seeking a highly creative and intellectually curious Lead Cloud Security Engineer who is passionate about Cloud infrastructure and Public Cloud hosting. As part of a team that’s leading the next wave of disruption on a whole new scale, you will play an integral part in advancing Capital One’s Cloud ecosystem and culture of technical excellence. If you are focused on the art of the possible and are not afraid to push the bounds of technology, you want to be at Capital One. In this position, you will play a major role in shaping the future for how to quickly deploy applications at scale in the cloud.
Responsibilities & Expectations:
Use your winning personality to influence broader Engineering groups in adopting Cloud technologies and processes
Develop scripts and glue code to integrate multiple software components
Automate the provisioning of environments through cooking up some recipes with Chef, or through Ansible, and the deployment of those environments using containers, like Docker (and for the love of automation, at least have some configuration management tool through some version control)
Identify technical obstacles early and work closely with team to find creative solutions, build prototypes & develop deployment strategies, and procedures
Collaborate with the Line of Business development teams to bring new features and services into production
Implement patterns for streaming, batch and bulk movement of data across data centers
Design, deploy and manage HA, secure and scalable Cloud resources
Design and develop automation workflows, performing unit tests and conducting reviews to make sure your work is rigorously designed, elegantly coded, and effectively tuned for platform performance, and assessing the overall quality of delivered components
Strong verbal and written communication skills are necessary due to the dynamic nature of collaborations with customers, vendors, and other engineering team, solving complex business problems together
Display strong operating system prowess and understanding of cloud security principles
Perform root cause analysis to assist customers with identifying performance issues and suggest architecture solution optimizing solutions
Evaluate & build different compute frameworks for all tiers and while you don’t have to scale buildings, implementing scalable system solutions is required
We’re looking for self-starters, those who can work independently, with and across teams. Establishing smooth running environments is paramount to your success, and happiness
Work with internal customers to implement data monitoring, orchestration and code deployment
You love learning new technologies and mentoring more junior engineers
Basic Qualifications:
High School Diploma, GED or equivalent certification
At least 6 years of experience working in a Cloud environment (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
At least 3 years of experience developing automation scripts using Python, Go, Bash Terraform, CloudFormation, Regex or Powershell
At least 2 years of experience with network infrastructure design, implementation and support
At least 1 year of experience with Agile
At least 1 year of experience with Github
Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree
2+ years of experience with Open Source tools (Ansible, Cobbler, Ironic, Chef or Chef Metal)
2+ years of experience with Linux
At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.
No agencies please. Capital One is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical and mental disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/assignment, citizenship, pregnancy or maternity, protected veteran status, or any other status prohibited by applicable national, federal, state or local law. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.
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