Sr Associate, Cloud Engineering

Country: United States of America

Designs, analyzes, and supports the company's information technology structure, systems, and processes. Acquires, designs, implements, and operates the company's information technology resources (e.g., computer hardware, operating systems, communications, software applications, data, databases, etc.). Deploys, acquires, maintains, and ensures security of information technology assets. Plans and tests processes to ensure compliance with system requirements, business objectives, security standards and other technical requirements.
Ensures compliance with system requirements, business objectives, security standards and other technical requirements following FFIEC framework.

Essential Functions/Responsibility Statements:
Educates Infrastructure Engineering staff on technical changes, deployments and new additions to the department services.
Oversees the development and implementation of new projects, tools, such as automated scripts and tools to enhance Infrastructure Engineering efficiency, performance and security.
Provides guidance/input to management and participates in technical supervisory responsibilities for infrastructure engineers, including, but not limited to appraising technical performance.
Facilitates the development and implementation of Infrastructure Engineering standards.
Participates and occasionally directs the planning and implementation of IT Infrastructure capabilities.
Supports IT Infrastructure engineering to ensure all systems are designed and implemented following Santander US' standards, industry best practices and regulatory requirements (security, resilience, scalability, efficiency, etc..).
Collaborate across the company to understand changing business needs and communicate IT Infrastructure Engineering initiatives.

Develops points of views on emerging technologies and evaluating their applicability to business goals and operational requirements.
Understands successes and failures in the marketplace to better guide the firm's IT strategy.
Provides guidance and direction on projects, ensuring overall fit with architecture direction.
Develops and implements new Infrastructure products and standards of operations throughout the technology organization.
Develops and documents the proposed technical design/infrastructure design for the integration and implementation of any new solutions, working across the IT department.
Supports vendor relationships in all related technologies so that services are delivered to us effectively and efficiently.
Recommends agreed process improvements to the Infrastructure Engineering function.
Trains, mentors, and coaches colleagues as needed.
Completes architectural assessments and unbiased analysis of key decisions within projects including impact on systems, timelines and other key variables.
Supports communication strategies that will guide the organization to standard technologies or create new standards as development needs arise.
Works as technical authority and escalation point for incidents and issues related to his/her area of expertise.
Builds a collaborative commitment to technology strategy by considering and evaluating different points of view.

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education:
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience: Computer Science/Software Engineering or equivalent field.

Work Experience:
9+ Years Experience with data center networking, and/or cloud networking, as well as concepts and fundamentals of things like shared storage, clustering, and failover.

Skills and Abilities:
Demonstrated knowledge of Infrastructure Solutions troubleshooting
Demonstrated knowledge of Infrastructure Solutions design (resilience, compliance, security)
Executes against understanding of market best practices and industry frameworks (FFIEC guidelines, NIST standards, etc.)
Strong desire to produce quality work, adopt standards and adhere to those standards
Clear understanding on how automation can help improve efficiencies, quality, reliability and response time
Hands-on experience working with Infrastructure design and implementation
Technical aptitude, written and oral communications skills, project management and the ability to deal effectively with people at all levels (technical and business audiences) and in different situations. This includes the ability to develop clear, concise documentation.
Proven ability to positively manage work in a dynamic environment and to work autonomously as required
Excellent attention to detail, quality, and follow-through; commitment to continuous improvement and the elimination of performance variability
Demonstrated ability to adapt to rapidly changing requirements with a flexible and creative approach to brainstorming, troubleshooting, and
problem solving
Demonstrated experience designing, integrating and managing complex infrastructure solutions.
Ability to provide technical system solutions, determine overall design direction and provide solutions recommendations for complex technical issues.

Diversity & EEO Statements: At Santander, we value and respect differences in our workforce and strive to increase the diversity of our teams. We actively encourage everyone to apply.

Santander is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Working Conditions: Frequent Minimal physical effort such as sitting, standing and walking. Occasional moving and lifting equipment and furniture is required to support onsite and offsite meeting setup and teardown. Physically capable of lifting up to fifty pounds, able to bend, kneel, climb ladders.

Employer Rights: This job description does not list all of the job duties of the job. You may be asked by your supervisors or managers to perform other duties. You may be evaluated in part based upon your performance of the tasks listed in this job description. The employer has the right to revise this job description at any time. This job description is not a contract for employment and either you or the employer may terminate at any time for any reason

$121,500.00 USD$170,000.00 USD