Position Summary
Assured Guaranty is seeking a platform engineer to drive the adoption of cloud technologies within Assured Guaranty’s computing environment.
The platform engineer will partner and collaborate with consumers of IT and applications in the organization; empowering Assured Guaranty to leverage cloud technologies and principles while maintaining strong security, governance, resilience, and reliability.
Primary Responsibilities
Responsibilities will include:
- Design, implement, maintain and manage resources through infrastructure as code in order to provide a self-service platform to consume cloud resources.
- Expertise with the following technologies:
- HashiCorp Terraform
- HashiCorp Vault
- GitHub, GitHub Actions
- AWS EC2, ECS/EKS, Docker, Lambda Functions
- Networking concepts including VPC, segmentation, firewall rules
- Proficiency in Linux
- Automated testing tools
- Contribute to standards related to the adoption, implementation, and use of cloud technologies. This includes security, identity and access management, compliance, cost management, license management, performance management and monitoring.
- Continuously review adopted cloud technologies reducing duplication of technologies, driving expertise and automation.
- Work closely with IT security to ensure the adoption of cloud resources aligns with the company’s security posture.
- Work closely with IT development teams to collaboratively implement standard toolsets with appropriate configuration and governance in place to ensure developers have an attractive ecosystem to work and create.
Candidate Background
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent is required
- A minimum of 2 years’ experience in similar role
- Practical work experience in IDLC processes such as Incident, Problem and Change Management.
- Ability to communicate and interact effectively with all stakeholders at all levels of the organization
- It would be beneficial, but not required, to possess a certification such as an MCSE Cloud Platform and Infrastructure, or Amazon Web Services Certified Solutions Architect
Compensation
Annual base salary for the position is expected to be from $130,000 per year to $160,000 per year. The actual salary will depend on various factors, including but not limited to a candidate’s experience and credentials, salary expectations of applicable candidates, and other applicable market conditions. This position also provides applicable employee benefits, as well as eligibility for an annual discretionary bonus.
What We Do
Assured Guaranty is the leading provider of financial guaranty insurance. We guarantee timely payment of scheduled principal and interest when due on municipal, public infrastructure and structured financings. Issuers use our financial guarantees to lower their cost of funds, broaden distribution and diversify funding sources. For more than three decades, our insurance subsidiaries have helped to lower the cost of borrowing for municipalities and other issuers across the United States by guaranteeing a wide range of tax-exempt and taxable, investment-grade, municipal bonds that are supported by either tax revenues or revenues from essential public projects or services. From schools to clean water, from transportation projects to hospitals and more, we help municipalities build sustainable public infrastructure and better serve their residents, including their underserved and at-risk communities.
We are also active in the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia and other developed countries, where we guarantee public-private partnership, local authority and regulated utility financings. In structured finance, globally, we guarantee asset securitizations and craft custom applications of our guarantees to assist our institutional clients in managing their portfolio risk and capital. For investors, our value proposition includes not only the security of our unconditional, irrevocable guaranty but also our experienced credit selection, underwriting and surveillance. Our business model has proven its resilience through multiple business cycles, and we have demonstrated our commitment to maintaining the financial strength to protect our policyholders for the life of their insured investments.
In addition, our subsidiary Assured Investment Management LLC provides alternative investment management and advisory services to institutional and other qualified investors through our investment arm and offers a variety of credit-focused strategies and structured finance solutions.
