Specialist Cloud Engineer

Your opportunity

At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together.

We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location.

At Schwab, the Cloud Services organization within Schwab Technology Services (STS) empowers Schwab’s development teams with an easy to use, self-service catalog of operationalized, secure cloud products meeting Schwab’s regulatory requirements that exceed Client expectations.   The organization’s mission is to operationalize Schwab’s cloud capabilities to enable the scalable and secure migration of Enterprise applications to our multi-cloud infrastructure.

This Cloud Engineer will work closely with other cloud engineers, cloud security engineers, data center engineers, application developers, and internal/external customers to provide and maintain cloud solutions.  The individual must have worked in an Enterprise Environment that includes experience in large scale cloud solutions supporting virtualized workloads.  This position requires hands on experience and ability to test/validate, troubleshoot and implement cloud-based solutions.

What you have

To ensure that we have fulfilled our promise of "challenging the status quo," this role has specific qualifications that successful candidates should have.

Required Qualifications

▪Minimum of 2 years of experience in Software Development, Cloud Engineering, or equivalent.

▪Minimum of 1 year technical experience with cloud support in Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Provider (GCP).

▪ Delivered impactful results in previous experiences around scaling, standardizing, visualizing or observing core services

▪ Experience using DevOps Tools Suite (Git, Bitbucket, Bamboo, Jenkins)

▪ Troubleshoots and resolves technical issues using best practices to support live applications

▪ Experience with ITIL Operations Processes (Change Management, Incident Management, Problem Management, Service Request Management)

▪ Prioritizes compliance, security, and scalability of data systems, and current working experience with Schwab processes and systems

▪ Executes strategies to restore services promptly and address disruptions

▪ Designs scalable, consistent environments that reduce risk and increase reliability

▪ Optimizes planning and development through advanced tool integration

▪ Addresses QA challenges by applying best practices in testing and compliance

▪ Validates requirements and constraints to support effective development and operations

▪ Monitors and addresses security policy violations using best practices

▪ Resolves software design challenges using predictive and adaptive methods

▪ Applies best practices to build, test, and validate software components while resolving issues

▪ Consolidates software changes into secure, stable releases using best practices

▪ Ensures systems align with cloud architectures using modern design methodologies

Preferred Qualifications

▪ Evaluates moderately complex problems by analyzing data and spotting trends
▪ Keeps others informed about workstream developments and updates
▪ Applies business intelligence and industry insights to support decision making
▪ Enables others to make decisions within their scope
▪ Recognizes industry trends to foresee opportunities and challenges
▪ Contributes ideas for new approaches or technologies within a defined scope
▪ Influences peers and collaborates across teams to improve workflow efficiency
▪ Verbally conveys complex concepts and engages peers effectively
▪ Crafts impactful messages tailored to audience needs, persuading desired actions
▪ Sets challenging goals, monitors progress, and applies problem-solving techniques
▪ Evaluates market dynamics and proposes innovative, efficient solutions
▪ Delivers high-quality work with minimal revisions by adhering to standards
▪ Adjusts written tone and style effectively for diverse readers
▪ Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or technical field

In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities