Sr 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

▪ 3+ years’ experience working in Public Cloud Infrastructure and/or Public Cloud Application Operations (GCP, Azure, AWS)
▪ 3+ years’ experience in Infrastructure as Code - Leveraging Terraform including building/using net new modules, maintaining including identifying and resolving issues with existing modules.

▪ 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

▪ Conducts in-depth analysis, evaluates factors, and influences decisions with insights
▪ Ensures stakeholders has the necessary information for informed decisions
▪ Analyzes market dynamics, provides guidance to peers, and aligns work with business goals
▪ Trusts colleagues to manage outcomes
▪ Anticipates consequences of situations and acts to prepare for contingencies in assigned tasks
▪ Identifies opportunities for process improvements and implements creative solutions
▪ Influences team quality and effectiveness with decisions
▪ Verbally presents ideas confidently, ensuring mutual understanding
▪ Delivers powerful messages with persuasive language to drive viewpoint adoption
▪ Chooses effective methods to reach ambitious goals and measure outcomes
▪ Applies specialized expertise to support initiatives that optimize performance
▪ Produces work that meets or exceeds quality expectations
▪ Writes concise, well-structured, and engaging business documents
▪ Bachelors degree in Compute Science or technical field

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