OVERVIEW

Are you looking to take your career from good to great? As an employee of PenFed, every day is an opportunity to thrive, and be part of a team working to ensure our organization is providing world class service to our members, employees, and our communities. We exist to help our members realize their full potential, educate and encourage their dreams, and make every effort to follow our mission and help our members “do better.” Joining PenFed is more than being an employee; it’s about being a part of the PenFed family.
PenFed is hiring a (Hybrid) Engineer III, IT Cloud at our Tysons, Virginia location. The primary purpose of this job is to be responsible for designing, implementing, supporting, and monitoring PenFed’s emerging cloud environments. This position is a key resource for the implementation strategies in the cloud while driving cloud initiative in high performance cloud computing and managing a scalable, continuous-integration architecture.

QUALIFICATIONS

Equivalent combination of education and experience is considered.

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field is required.
• In lieu of a degree, combination of education and a minimum of ten (10) years of related work experience is required that provides the necessary skills and knowledge to perform all the essential job functions.
• Minimum five (5) years hands-on experience in the design, development, and implementation in AWS cloud environment (VPC, IAM, AMI, S3, EC2, ELB, RDS, SQS, SNS, Route53 etc.) is required.
• Minimum of four (4) years of experience in Linux systems administration. Understand AWS/ architectural best practices as well as experience in the use of programming/Scripting languages and Cloud Security.
• Experience with DevOps tools and API Gateways (Apigee, MuleSoft) is a plus
• Experience deploying and supporting medium to large IaaS, PaaS environments
• Strong understanding of Network, Compute, Storage, Cloud and End-User technologies
• Strong understanding of System design and integration with a thorough familiarity with multi- tiered application architecture and public, private, and hybrid cloud technologies.
• Strong interpersonal, problem solving and multi-tasking skills desired.
• Must be able to present system designs for user approval at formal reviews.
• Strong problem solving and analytic skills.
• Strong communication, documentation, and time management skills.

ABOUT US

Established in 1935, PenFed today is one of the country’s strongest and most stable financial institutions with over 2.9 million members and over $31 billion in assets. We serve members in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, as well as in Guam and Puerto Rico. We are federally insured by NCUA and we are an Equal Housing Lender. We are available to members worldwide, via the web, seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day.
We provide our employees with a lucrative benefits package including robust medical, dental and vision plan options, plenty of paid time off, 401k with employer match, on-site fitness facilities at our larger locations, and more.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of job duties and the position will perform other duties as assigned.

• Design, implement and maintain cloud-based services and solutions (AWS).
• Provide technical vision for cloud technologies, and customized solutions to address complex environments.
• Responsible for the integration of cloud technologies- IaaS, PaaS and Enterprise tools such as services, monitoring, logging and other development tools.
• Collaborate with Cyber Security team in periodic reviews of the cloud security in order to implement strong security practices.
• Use current or new tools to monitor environment including CloudWatch, CloudTrail and other services monitoring tools.
• Create and maintain AWS networking: VPC, Subnets, Security Groups, VPN, Peer-to-Peer, NAT, Gateways, load balancers, IP-tables, Transit Gateways, Security Groups and ACL’s.
• Write Cloud formation or Terraform scripts for Infrastructure as Code.
• Perform AWS Identity Access Management tasks including user accounts, roles and policies management.
• Responsible for stability, integrity and efficiency of the infrastructure and information systems that support core functions of the business.
• Accountable for providing escalation support to troubleshoot and maintain production infrastructure and to resolve production issues and outages.
• Participate in the planning and design of an enterprise Business Continuity Plan and Disaster Recovery Plan.
• Comply with Incident Management and Change Management procedures and reporting practices.
• Maintain up-to-date detailed knowledge of the IT industry as it relates to the technologies identified as primary responsibilities including awareness of new or revised solutions and improved processes.
• Develop and maintain up-to-date baselines for the secure configuration and operations of all in- place systems.
• Assist junior staff in researching technical problems and complex designs in order to develop staff capabilities.
• Participate in on-call 24x7 support as needed in the event of system outage or failure.