Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Candescent is a forward-thinking technology company transforming how financial institutions deliver Intelligent Banking experiences. We unite digital banking, account opening, and branch solutions that power and connect digital banking, account opening, and branch solutions—creating seamless engagement across digital, remote, and in-person channels.

Our Experience-Led, Intelligence-Driven approach combines human-centered design with data, automation, and cloud-based innovation. Built on an API-first architecture, our extensible ecosystem enables institutions to adapt quickly, integrate easily, and unlock new opportunities for growth—turning every customer interaction into a moment of clarity, confidence, and connection.

Job Description:

The digital banking’s Cloud Engineering mission is to take a proactive approach to maintain the integrity of our Digital First banking platform.  As a member of the Cloud Platform team, you will accomplish this by implementing and enforcing standards and practices that promote security, availability, and performance.  You will provide guidance, tooling, and best practices to our development teams so that they can develop reliable, performant, scalable applications in the cloud.

As a senior engineer in the organization, you will provide mentoring within our own team as well as to our peer teams so that we can continue to grow skill and expertise across our core initiatives.

Responsibilities:

•  Partner with cloud architects to build, test and revise proposed architectures and solutions
• Assist in building various tools/automation to streamline existing processes
• Work with Development, Security and Business Unit teams to deliver a world class cloud platform
• Build automation scripts and frameworks to improve operational processes and procedures.
• Learn, deploy and document newer technologies for the potential deployment of services following a development and release life cycle
• Support production escalations as needed.
• Driving ongoing improvements and efficiencies in operational practices, tools & processes.
• Identify areas for improvement or gaps in our systems, whether related to scaling, reliability, automation or cost optimization.

Required Skills/Experience:

• Building and supporting production level Kubernetes clusters; Optimizing containerized workloads
• Experience with cloud networking; configuring VPC’s, firewalls, ingress/egress, CDN.
• Experience in AWS services.
• Handson on EKS, RDS, Lambda, Cloudwatch, Storage Solutions(EFS, S3, EBS..)
• Experience in Terraform/Terragrunt
• Experience in Cloud migrations.
• BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Must have high initiative and be a clear communicator.
• Must be good at setting up and troubleshooting environments
• Extensive experience with Prometheus/Dynatrace or other logging tools.
• Strong knowledge/experience with Application and Infrastructure Delivery automation, orchestration and configuration management.
• Experience operating within cloud environments
• Continued establishment of best in class DevOps development, automation and deployment practices, policies and standards.

Desired Skill Set:

• Container build/management and Kubernetes
• Amazon Web Services
• Cloud migrations (Google/AWS)
• IAC - Terraform
• Scripting – Python
• CI/CD - GitHub
• Version control – GIT, GitOps

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