Kubernetes Senior Platform Engineer-Information Systems 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 15,000+ branch offices where our more than 7 million clients live and work.

In a typical branch office, a financial advisor meets with clients and receives branch office support, so they can focus on building deep relationships with clients. Headquarters associates in St. Louis, Tempe and Mississauga provide support and expertise to help U.S. and Canada branch teams deliver an ideal client experience. We continue to grow to meet the needs of long-term individual investors.

In 2022, Edward Jones invested $ 1 billion in technology infrastructure, digital initiatives, and virtual business enablement tools.  We're currently in the test-and-learn phase and are looking for talented, motivated professionals that want to be part of this transformational journey.  Cloud-based architecture and modern technical capabilities will enable us to grow our impact while providing the best client experience possible. 

The Kubernetes Platform Engineer is responsible to maintain the Kubernetes platform, assist application teams with platform-related issues, and deliver new platform capabilities. You'll work as a member of a team focused on providing an excellent and continuously improving platform for our users.

What You'll Do:

• Assist team in managing the Kubernetes lifecycle including security and platform upgrades


• Perform advanced troubleshooting of incidents in mission-critical systems (on-call support as part of a rotation) and participate in preventative problem management activities


• Provide day-to-day support for the Kubernetes platforms


• Assist users as they migrate workloads between Kubernetes clusters


• Develop automation to improve team processes and the user experience of the platform

• 7+ years of experience in the IT field with a focus on cloud-native technology


• Strong verbal and written communication skills


• Significant experience supporting Kubernetes -n private and public clouds, specifically Azure Kubernetes Service


• Experience supporting applications in Kubernetes


• Experience using common development and promotion tools:
  
  
  
  • Jenkins
  
  
  • GitHub
  
  
  • Docker
  
  
  • YAML
  
  
  • Terraform
  
  
  
  


• Experience using APM and log analysis tools, such as Dynatrace, Grafana, and Splunk


• Nice to have:

• Experience with Java and Spring Boot


• Understanding of Product Teams and Agile methodology and practices


• The curiosity that drives you to understand problems and provide creative solutions


• Strong desire to see users delighted with our platform