DriveWealth

Principal Infrastructure Capacity Engineer

Jersey City, NJ US
USD 200k - 215k
API AWS
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Description

DriveWealth, the pioneer of fractional equities trading and embedded investing, is a visionary technology company that empowers more than 100 partners around the world to engage their customers by placing the markets in the palm of their hand. We believe the future is fractional, transactional and mobile. Every mobile device should be a gateway to accessing investing and savings products, services, advice, and assistance for global citizens of all ages, wealth stages, and levels of financial expertise. DriveWealth’s unparalleled consultative support and cloud-based, industrial strength technology platform allow partners to seamlessly offer branded investing experiences to drive customer acquisition, loyalty, retention, and revenue growth. DriveWealth’s commitment to continuous evolution and innovation makes it the partner of choice for powering the future of investing.

Recently completing a Series D raise, DriveWealth’s mission is to democratize investing globally by working with partners to invent new ways to use its API-based technology to provide emerging investors with cutting-edge embedded experiences, offer first-time access to U.S. markets, and the ability to begin investing with as little as $1. DriveWealth is committed to empowering consumers around the world to become owners by delivering the most modern brokerage infrastructure, unparalleled industry expertise, and a culture of continued evolution.

About the Role:

  • This is an individual contributor, at a senior level, that reports to the VP of Infrastructure Engineering.  Building and delivering clear Capacity planning models and working closely with peers in the Infra teams, other technology/developments, products management, and customer facing business units.

What you'll do

  • As a priority, the successful operation and performance of our production infrastructure capacity and its throughput.
  • Capacity planning model and structure as an on-going continuous exercise.
  • Managing the platform’s lifecycle and infrastructure resources in our public cloud and to some extent, our private cloud.
  • Fact based with forecast and projection analysis.
  • Focused on rightsizing, and cost efficiency. Planning for peak days and hours throughput of millions of transactions per hour.
  • Plan and own the capacity management within our Infrastructure team.
  • Self-driven with good project management experience and infrastructure engineering knowledge is required.
  • Build relationships with Stakeholders in peering teams and BU’s.
  • Customer support, finance, data center, data, facility operations, security, DevOps, SRE, main partner, Product Engineering, QA/QE, Development engineering and systems & tooling engineering.
  • Balance of H.A. DR and Capacity lifecycle management.
  • Design and build for proactive scaling, self-healing as well as automation in scaling and operation.
  • Strong understanding of building and managing with IaC and automation tools.

Typical Projects & Focus you will be working on

  • Public Cloud and Private Cloud Platform right sizing.
  • Infrastructure right sizing.
  • Platform levels cost effective alignment – Dev to Prod and all in between.
  • Next generation and the new global platform buildouts.

What you'll need 

  • Substantial experience in managing and right sizing Infrastructure platform capacity.
  • Project management and delivery experience.
  • 8+ years of experience in a combination of capacity planning, demand and throughput management, operations planning or infrastructure management.
  • Highly analytical, yet collaborative.
  • Knowledge of enterprise level compute, storage, networking, and DB capacity.
  • Metrics and observability driven.
  • Very familiar with AWS and Data Centers.
  • Experienced in building dashboards and communicating with management cross-functionally.
  • Familiar with Agile, Prince2 or other similar methodologies.
  • Familiar with Best practice CD/CD pipeline practices and tools as used in AWS
  • Performance tuning and performance optimization
  • Capacity tuning and Capacity optimization for elastic peak periods
  • FinOps focused for highest cost efficiency in AWS with clear focus on Storage tiers, EC2 classed, RI, SI, Data and Gateway transfers, monitoring, Cost alerts and more

Compensation
Compensation package offerings are based on candidate experience and technical qualifications, as it relates to the role. These are identified and determined throughout your interviewing experience.

Please note
: at this time, we are not able to hire in all states.

Remote (Most US States) Pay Range
$200,000$215,000 USD

US Benefits

  • Insurance – Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, LTD & STD. HSA and FSA options.
  • Unlimited PTO
  • 401k plan
  • Flexible working hours and work from home
  • Continuing education and conferences reimbursement
  • Fitness/Wellbeing reimbursement
  • Lunch program, snacks and beverages available in the office

 

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

TO ALL AGENCIES: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of DriveWealth outside of the Talent organization. DriveWealth’s policy is to only accept resumes from agencies via Greenhouse (ATS). Agencies must have a valid services agreement executed and must have been assigned by the Talent team to a specific requisition. Any resume submitted outside of this process will be deemed the sole property of DriveWealth. In the event a candidate submitted outside of this policy is hired, no fee or payment will be paid.

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