Senior Lead Platform Engineer

West Creek 4 (12074), United States of America, Richmond, VirginiaSenior Lead Platform Engineer (IAM)

Do you love building and pioneering in the technology space? Do you enjoy solving complex technical problems in a fast-paced, collaborative, inclusive, and iterative delivery environment? At Capital One, you'll be part of a big group of makers, breakers, doers and disruptors, who love to solve real problems and meet real customer needs. We are seeking Platform Engineers who are passionate about creating and supporting DevOps tools with emerging technologies to join our team. As a Platform Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to be on the forefront of driving a major transformation within Capital One.

The Operational Excellence team within the Cyber Identity and Access Management (IAM) organization is looking for a multi-domain, technical, subject matter expert to join the team that provides architecture, engineering, and production support across the entire IAM portfolio with a focus on improving automation, resiliency, and reliability. This position works closely with application engineers in the Cyber division, functional counterparts across the enterprise, and IAM Engineering leadership.

**What You’ll Do :

• Work with engineers, architects, and other groups to identify technical and functional needs of systems and applications to improve the automation, resiliency, and reliability across the IAM portfolio.
• Lead initiatives designed to improve the health and availability across the IAM application portfolio including automating processes, defining new patterns, reducing one off solutions, and creating a more resilient, secure, and available set of IAM services.
• Lead and support responses to operational disruptions and champion long-term solutions and systems improvements to enhance the stability, reliability, and resiliency of IAM applications and infrastructure.
• Influence IAM application teams in adopting technologies, processes, and best practices that improve the craftsmanship, availability, resilience and scalability of IAM solutions
• Constantly think ahead about what is coming and how we adapt in a proactive way and design with operational excellence from the start.
• Provide consulting and hands-on support to multiple product areas to resolve application deployment and management issues with a focus on minimizing impact to our customers.
• Participate in the design, development, testing, and release of new capabilities and features with focus on release and post-production support.
• Drive improvements to processes and design enhancements to automation to continuously improve the production environment.
• Bring a passion to stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, participate in internal & external technology communities, and mentor other members of the engineering community
• Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, inclusion, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, self-organization and diversity
• Utilize scripting languages like Python, SQL, Ruby and groovy, Container Orchestration services including Docker and ECS, CM tools including Ansible and Terraform, and a variety of AWS tools and services

**Basic Qualifications:

• High School Diploma, GED, or equivalent certification
• At least 8 years of experience with engineering and operational support of IAM services such as identity lifecycle management, user and application authentication and authorization, privileged access management or native cloud IAM services.
• At least 6 years of experience with AWS, Azure or Google Cloud
• At least 2 years of experience supporting the infrastructure component of applications

**Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS certifications for Developer, Solutions Architect, or SysOps Administration
• 2+ years of experience in Agile practices
• 2+ years of experience with multiple programming languages such as C++, Java, Python, or SQL

**At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

New York City (Hybrid On-Site): $195,200 - $222,800 for Sr. Lead Platform EngineerSan Francisco, California (Hybrid On-Site): $206,800 - $236,000 for Sr. Lead Platform Engineer

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.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 (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), race, color, age, national origin, religion, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender reassignment, citizenship, immigration status, protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited under applicable 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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