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Application Engineer (SRE) - Houston Texas
Company: Discover Financial Services Location: Houston, Texas
Posted On: 05/04/2024
Discover. A brighter future.With us, you'll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors: We Play to Win, We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. And we mean it - we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world's leading digital banking and payments companies. -We value what makes you unique so that you have an opportunity to shine. Come build your future, while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover.Job Description:At Discover, be part of a culture where diversity, teamwork, and collaboration reign. Join a company that is just as employee focused as it is on its customers and is consistently awarded for both. We're all about people, and our employees are why Discover is a great place to work. Be the reason we help millions of consumers build a brighter financial future and achieve yours along the way with a rewarding career.Site Reliability Engineering---(SRE) is a set of principles and practices that incorporates aspects of---software engineering and applies them to IT infrastructure and operations.--- The main objectives are to create highly reliable and scalable---software systems and automate operational processes.--- --- SREs focus on availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response and capacity planning of their services.--- -As an Application Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) you will be part of team of people who are responsible for the availability of several of Discover's most critical applications:--- our PULSE network authorization switch and settlement platforms. - You'll tap into your passion for ensuring these applications are highly available for our customers. - -Responsibilities - Analyze, design, program, test, and deploy new user stories and features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production
- Tends to Associate Application Engineers by providing learning tasks as well as work related tasks, directs the work of Senior Associate Application Engineers, and helps them continue to grow
- Achieves team commitments (and influence others to do the same) by using informal leadership & highly developed communication skills
- Has an oversight on design decisions and guides team to achieve key results for products assigned to them
- Remediates issues using engineering principles and creates proactive design solutions for potential failures
- Contributes to and leads technology communities at Discover
- Partner with Application Development teams to build resiliency into our critical websites and mobile application
- Partner with our Application Develop teams to implement service level objectives
- Partner with our Application Development teams and other SREs to build out end to end observability
- Implement monitoring, alerting and dashboards needed for our apps
- Automate operational processes
- Help to develop our capacity management and performance management tools
- Help to define the DR plan needed for our critical apps
- Help to develop a chaos testing process
- Participate in an on call rotationMinimum QualificationsAt a minimum, here's what we need from you:
- Bachelors - Computer Science or related
- 3+ Years - Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related
- Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of competent on the Dreyfus engineering scalePreferred QualificationsBonus Points If You Have:
- Understanding of payments transaction processing switch on HPE NonStop fault-tolerant platform.
- Develop large and complex solutions for online transaction processing using Connex Environmental Database (CED).
- Have knowledge of Processor Interface and foundational knowledge of Connex Advantage.
- 3+ years in a SRE or DevOps role
- Experience with DevOps tools, processes, and culture
- Extensive experience leading customer facing systems in a mission critical environment
- Experience with programming and/or scripting languages (TAL, TACL, C, C++, Cobol 85, Python, Java, bash)
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools/technologies (i.e., Prognosis, Web ViewPoint, Grafana, Kibana, Datadog, AppDynamics)
- Creation of standardized monitoring dashboards in cloud platforms for proactive monitoring of application and infrastructure health
- Operational Readiness strategies and best practicesExternal applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.#LI-KEApplication Deadline:The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Apr-13-2024. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed.Compensation:The base pay for this position generally ranges between $86,500.00 to $146,100.00. Additional incentives may be provided as part of a market competitive total compensation package. Factors, such as but not limited to, geographical location, relevant experience, education, and skill level may impact the pay for this position.Benefits:We also offer a range of benefits and programs based on eligibility. These benefits include:
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