Summary
A senior platform engineering leadership role responsible for building secure, highly available, and scalable cloud infrastructure for a high-traffic financial technology environment. You will lead DevSecOps practices, automate infrastructure and software delivery, operate Kubernetes platforms, strengthen cloud security, improve developer productivity, and support resilient distributed systems. The role requires extensive experience with AWS, CI/CD, security tooling, containerized microservices, Linux, infrastructure as code, networking, and automation.
Highlights
Senior leadership opportunity with substantial compensation, equity, annual bonus, comprehensive healthcare, retirement matching, parental leave, unlimited PTO, and a hybrid schedule. The role offers broad technical influence over secure, highly available cloud platforms.
Description
About The Role
iCapital is looking to a hire a Vice President to join the Platform Infrastructure team.
This team plays a critical role in keeping the production and development environments running smoothly and securely.
This role will utilize advanced cloud capabilities to facilitate Platform Infrastructure strategy of market agility and lean operating principles with a strict focus on quality to meet the ever-growing demands of clients.
The ideal candidate is highly collaborative, creative, intellectually curious and passionate about forming and implementing cutting-edge cloud computing capabilities.
As a Platform Engineer, this individual will be wearing multiple hats in a highly visible role interacting with all aspects of the business.
Responsibilities
Build highly available solutions across the entire SDLC stack with a primary focus on an internet facing fintech site.Coordinate the relationship between the Platform Infrastructure team and the Information Security Team in remediating security issues related to platforms, CI/CD pipelines, or development tools.Contribute to security best practices for shifting security left and establishing a strong security culture within the DevOps and Platform Infrastructure team.Develop and maintain tools to support the development environment on MacOS and Linux tool environment with focus on improving developer productivity.Maintain site reliability with a focus on building highly scalable systems integrating resiliency and high availability at all levels.Develop software and tooling to secure and automate cloud infrastructure building software delivery capabilities with fully automatic workflows.Design and operate a Kubernetes environment for container management and orchestration.
Qualifications
6+ years of DevOps or SRE experience with 4+ years of AWS experience6+ years of CI/CD pipeline development in GitLab, GitHub, or similar frameworks3+ years of experience with security best practices in AWS, including remediating SecurityHub findings3+ years of experience with DevSecOps tools, including SAST tools, DAST tools, and SCA toolsMicroservices (Docker, Kubernetes) experience in a production environment is strongly desiredStrong Linux OS-level and command-line and scripting knowledge and configuration management principlesWorking knowledge of databases such as MongoDB, Postgres, and DynamoDBCoding beyond simple scripting with strong opinions on maintainable and reusable code in Python, Ruby or Java is desiredExperience with computer provisioning on a Cloud based platform using Terraform or Cloud formation Exceptional analytical skills and able to apply knowledge and experience in decision-making to arrive at creative and commercial solutions Experience building a Microservice based architectureStrong written and verbal communication skillsAble to design and implement complex, but easily managed, automated infrastructureA desire to share, teach and learn as part of a team Expert level knowledge of networkingExperience with distributed systems design, maintenance, and hands-on troubleshootingExperience with debugging issues with the FIX protocol to include maintaining and establishing fix sessions and or session management + order routingExperience in system tuning and performance testingAWS certifications are a plus
Benefits
The base salary range for this role is $150,000 to $170,000.
iCapital offers a compensation package which includes salary, equity for all full-time employees, and an annual performance bonus.
Employees also receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes an employer matched retirement plan, generously subsidized healthcare with 100% employer paid dental, vision, telemedicine, and virtual mental health counseling, parental leave, and unlimited paid time off (PTO).
We believe the best ideas and innovation happen when we are together.
Employees in this role will work in the office Monday-Thursday, with the flexibility to work remotely on Friday.
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