Platform Engineer, Remote at Edward D. Jones in St. Louis, Missouri

Job Description:

At Edward Jones, we help clients achieve their serious, long-term financial goals by understanding their needs and implementing tailored solutions. To ensure a personal client experience, we have located our 14,000+ branch offices where our more than 7 million clients live and work.

A typical branch office has one financial advisor who meets with clients face-to-face and one branch office administrator who enhances the team's ability to build deep relationships with clients. Headquarters associates in St. Louis and Tempe provide support and expertise to help U.S. and Canada branch teams deliver an ideal client experience. Edward Jones currently has more branch offices than any other financial services firm, and we continue to grow to meet the needs of long-term individual investors.

MongoDB Platform Engineer
 
At Edward Jones our Data Platforms team is developing and deploying cutting edge solutions to support the rapid adoption of cloud and data streaming architecture. They are responsible for multiple data platforms and implementing next-generation data infrastructure for users across the firm.  In a Platform Engineering role, you will focus on the MongoDB infrastructure and be expected to facilitate the "you build it, you run it" mantra through the development of rapid system integrations and a steady focus on automation.  This will also bring you into contact with a diverse array of stakeholders from each area of the Technology division and will require solid collaboration skills as well as a belief in continuous improvement. In addition, you will engage the rest of the Data Platforms team in Mongo and Kafka solutions. This is an exceptional challenge and opportunity for someone who is excited for rapid change and continuous learning.

  What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree from four-year College or university in Computer Science, Technology or related field


• Extensive experience with MongoDB 4.0, MongoDB 4.2 and later


• Experience in Installation, Configuration and Administration of MongoDB 


• Experience with both sharded clusters and replica sets


• Experience in MongoDB data modeling, schema design


• Experience in MongoDB Performance tuning


• Experience with MongoDB Security best practice implementations


• Experience with MongoDB Backup, Restore and Monitoring


• Experience working in AWS, Azure and/or any cloud provider environment


• Experience in systems, automation, configuration management and deployment of applications supporting an Agile development process.


• Experience with virtualization and container environment management (e.g. VMware, DC/OS, Kubernetes)


• Familiar with utilization of source code repository (GitHub)