Infrastructure Engineer Staff- Data Analytics Platforms

Responsible for creating, modifying, and maintaining infrastructure and individual system components that enable business functions and IT Services. Balance availability, security, efficiency and functional requirements to help provide an optimized production service. Identify and manage existing and emerging risks that stem from business activities and ensure these risks are effectively identified and escalated to be measured, monitored and controlled.

We offer a flexible work environment that requires an individual to be in the office 4 days per week. This position can be based in one of the following locations: San Antonio, TX, Plano, TX, or Phoenix, AZ. Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

What you'll do:

• Leads the design and implementation of scalable infrastructure across tech domain, creates and enforces standards for system change across a department – reserves execution for the most complex implementations, influences service delivery and maintenance tasks automation across multiple domains and influences and guides monitoring, observability, and tooling at the portfolio level
• Identifies and addresses production issue trends and establishes and shares troubleshooting methodologies
• Provides real-time complex trouble-shooting support at tech domain level for major incidents. Influence department priority of experiments with new patterns and technologies
• Determines engineering best practices, concepts, and patterns at the domain level
• Influences organizations priority of innovations and business objectives within the domain
• Influences the customer – serves as a trusted advisor and helps evaluate solutions and ideas for the customer
• Partners with key stakeholders to lead the evaluation of potential solutions
• Mentor and coach experienced engineers and provide business inputs and feedback to leadership.
• Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

What you have:

• Bachelor's degree in related field of study; OR 4 years of related experience (in addition to the minimum years of experience required) may be substituted in lieu of degree.
• 10 years of infrastructure experience demonstrating depth of technical understanding within multiple Discipline(s)/technology(s) to include 3 years demonstrated technical leadership experience and/or leading teams. Knowledge of emerging and/or evolution of existing technologies. Demonstrated ability to act on all phases of the technology lifecycle.
• 8 years of experience in creating, modifying, and maintaining infrastructure and individual system components.
• Mastery of complex system and environment analysis, design, and optimization.
• Demonstrated experience in successfully partnering with business teams and leaders to design and manage highly available, complex, secure, enterprise infrastructure, and associated components, including servers, storage, network, and virtualized systems. database, client computing, mainframe, public cloud, Infrastructure as Code.
• Expert level of business acumen in the areas of business operations, risk management, industry practices and emerging trends.
• Knowledge and advanced understanding of designing scalable IT system infrastructures, implementing system changes, or automating service delivery and maintenance tasks.
• Demonstrated experience implementing and maintaining multi-cloud technologies and solutions.

What sets you apart:

• 5+ years of experience establishing partnerships and providing guidance with vendors for vendor applications and tools
• Extensive experience with impact analysis, technical assessments with CTO and identifying opportunities for system integrations
• Hands on experience with USAA’s deployment patterns, SRE concepts and general IT standards
• 5+ yrs of CI/CD pipeline automation experience
• 8+ years designing scalable IT infrastructure
• Hands on experience with platform deployments
• Large and small batch environment infrastructure design experience
• Deep understanding of public cloud infrastructure design

The above description reflects the details considered necessary to describe the principal functions of the job and should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be performed in the job.

What we offer:

Compensation: USAA has an effective process for assessing market data and establishing ranges to ensure we remain competitive. You are paid within the salary range based on your experience and market data of the position. The actual salary for this role may vary by location. The salary range for this position is: $143,320-$273-930.

Employees may be eligible for pay incentives based on overall corporate and individual performance and at the discretion of the USAA Board of Directors.

Benefits: At USAA our employees enjoy best-in-class benefits to support their physical, financial, and emotional wellness. These benefits include comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans, 401(k), pension, life insurance, parental benefits, adoption assistance, paid time off program with paid holidays plus 16 paid volunteer hours, and various wellness programs. Additionally, our career path planning and continuing education assists employees with their professional goals.

For more details on our outstanding benefits, please visit our benefits page on USAAjobs.com.