Application Engineer (SRE)

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:

As an Application Reliability Engineer, you’ll tap into your passion for finding and fixing inefficiencies to solve our reliability and performance issues. In our Agile environment, you’ll focus on availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change and problem management, monitoring, emergency response and capacity planning of our services. Your projects will deliver enhanced infrastructure, development, and deployment automation at Discover. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

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

Minimum Qualifications

At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:

Bachelors – Computer Science or related

Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related

Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of competent on the Dreyfus engineering scale

Preferred Qualifications

Bonus Points If You Have:

Experience with Chef/Ansible and Terraform.

Solid understanding of Networking and Linux fundamentals

Ability to program (structured and OOP) using one or more high-level languages, such as Python, Java or Ruby and shell scripting.

Postgres/Redis maintenance knowledge on AWS.

Ability to problem solve in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment.

Experience with alerting and monitoring tools (AppD, Kibana, DataDog) and building standards.

OCP/Kubernetes experience.

Experience as part of an Agile engineering or development team.

Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or similar; Git/GitHub; Artifactory.

Proven skills in high availability and scalability design, as well as performance monitoring.

CKA or CKAD certification is a plus

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.

And by the way, while you're waiting to hear from us, don't forget to check out the great benefits Discover offers.

Application Deadline:The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Apr-08-2024. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed.

What are you waiting for? Apply today!

All Discover employees place our customers at the very center of our work. To deliver on our promises to our customers, each of us contribute every day to a culture that values compliance and risk management.

Discover is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Discover is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or other legally protected status. (Know Your Rights & Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision)

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