Vice President, Platform Infrastructure

Employer: Institutional Capital Network, Inc. d/b/a iCapitalJob Title: Vice President, Platform InfrastructureWork Location: New York, NY Job Description: Develop and implement infrastructure strategies and frameworks, including reducing time to market and adopting lean operating principles, with a strict focus on quality. Build and implement highly available solutions across the entire SDLC stack, focusing on an internet facing fintech site. Interact closely with Application Developers and QA Automation Engineering to ensure that solutions are implemented to specifications. Develop and maintain tools to support the development environment and improve developer productivity. Maintain site reliability, including building highly scalable systems that integrate resiliency and high availability at all levels. Develop software and tooling to secure and automate cloud infrastructure, including building software delivery capabilities with fully automatic workflows. Design and operate a Kubernetes environment for container management and orchestration. Provide guidance on deployment system, including testing, product management, and code review. Maintain platform architecture, including reducing costs, identifying best practices, and automating management for better scalability. Train and assist colleagues on CI pipelines, existing monitoring, and centralized network setup systems. Salary range: $210,000-$252,000/yearRequirements: Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology**, or related field and five (5) years of experience working within DevOps, TechOps, or Site Reliability Engineering.Experience must include five (5) years with each of the following: building infrastructure in a Microservice based architecture using Docker and Kubernetes; compute provisioning on a Cloud based platform using Terraform or Cloud formation; performing distributed systems design, maintenance, and troubleshooting / debugging; applying command-line/scripting and configuration management principles; working with databases such as MongoDB, Postgres, or DynamoDB; and Python. Experience must include three (3) years of architecting, implementing, and managing monitoring tools, such as Prometheus/Grafana, CloudWatch, Splunk, Datadog, NewRelic, or ELK; and programming languages Ruby/Java. Experience must include two (2) years of Java Virtual Machine (JVM) configuration. Experience may be gained concurrently.**In lieu of a Bachelors degree employer will accept two (2) years of designing, building and managing an operational microservices-oriented AWS cloud infrastructure hosting an external-facing platform in the financial services industry.