Sr. Applications System Administrator (Kubernetes infrastructure)

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed.  We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

Job Description

Supports the installation, configuration, and maintenance of purchased applications or application frameworks. Participates in the design configuration, problem diagnosis, maintenance, and installation of application systems and/or user group profiles. Validates system functionality after changes. Participates in testing and installing new software releases and application system upgrades. Analyzes, monitors, and fine-tunes the application system to achieve optimum performance levels. Works with internal infrastructure teams and vendors to resolve issues with hardware and software. Maintains a comprehensive operating system hardware and software configuration database/library of all supporting documentation to ensure data integrity. Participates with application system problem resolution by working with application developers, vendors and internal infrastructure team members to troubleshoot.

Responsibility:

• Responsible for installation, administration and implementation of enterprise-wide search solutions across the customer environment.

• Customize the out of the box UX and UI to meet project requirements.

• Configuring Kubernetes auto provisioning, and auto scaling of CI/CD job/build agents/runners/nodes

• Kubernetes auto provisioning, and auto scaling of CI/CD deployment environments where successful builds are auto deployed

• Configuring persistent storage for Kubernetes clusters/pods, utilizing best practices, configuring NFS, persistent volumes, persistent volume claims for state persistence, etc

• Researching opportunities for automation, troubleshooting issues as reported by users.

• Designing and implementing clusters,cluster segmentation, internal/external networking for CI/CD deployment environments

• Network Encryption between Kubernetes clients such as kubectl, Kubernetes masters and nodes

• Work with our Internal IT teams (incl Risk, Security and Compliance) for guidance and expertise on related matters in a Kubernetes environment for deploying and configuring which include but is not limited to monitoring, alerting, logging, performance analysis, configuration tuning, replication, high availability, disaster recovery, benchmarking, and user experience.

• Document solutions, architectural patterns, and best practices around the Kubernetes environment, to ensure that support, developers, and end users have guidance and insight as needed.

• Deploying, building, and configuring deployment methods of GitLab for Kubernetes

Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience
- Six or more years of experience in application development

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Strong knowledge of Search and big data technologies.

• A thorough understanding of an Enterprise Search project lifecycle.

• Familiarity with Git version control for managing codebase and collaboration.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Environment (Windows Server, Firewalls, Ports, IIS, Azure).

• Familiarity with Cloud services and experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).

• Proven experience in implementing and deploying large scale enterprise-wide applications.

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production use cases (Running applications at scale in Kubernetes)

• Chef experience (writing complex cookbooks from scratch, custom providers, custom resources, etc.)

• Experience designing enterprise Kubernetes infrastructure to support a CI/CD pipeline for GitLab CI/CD and Jenkins CI/CD

• Teraform experience (writing from scratch, custom providers, custom resources, etc.)

• Experience with coding and scripting (Python, SQL, Java, JavaScript, Golang, Bash, Perl or Ruby)

• Experience with Generative AI Tools and Prompt Engineering a huge plus.

• Knowledge of machine learning, RAG and natural language processing (NLP) concepts a huge plus.

• Experience configuring Generative AI Sinequa a huge plus.

Location Expectations

The role offers a hybrid/flexible schedule, which means there's an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and the flexibility to work outside the office location for the other days.  

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits: 

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following (some may vary based on role, location or hours):

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

• Basic term and optional term life insurance

• Short-term and long-term disability

• Pregnancy disability and parental leave

• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan

• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)

• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities

• Adoption assistance

• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.

E-Verify

U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories. The E-Verify program is an Internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Learn more about the E-Verify program.

U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment. U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. U.S. Bank is subject to, and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA). In addition, certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA, NMLS registration, Reg Z, Reg G, OFAC, the NFA, the FCPA, the Bank Secrecy Act, the SAFE Act, and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement, such as those related to ethics, safety, or operational procedures.

Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.