What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Eng, Cloud and Solutions position at Invesco US?
As one of the world’s leading asset managers, Invesco is dedicated to helping investors worldwide achieve their financial objectives. By delivering the combined power of our distinctive investment management capabilities, we provide a wide range of investment strategies and vehicles to our clients around the world.
If you're looking for challenging work, smart colleagues, and a global employer with a social conscience, come explore your potential at Invesco. Make a difference every day!
Job Description
As one of the world’s leading asset managers, we are solely dedicated to delivering an investment experience that helps people get more out of life. If you're looking for challenging work, smart colleagues, and a global employer with a social conscience, explore your potential at Invesco.
The Team
Our mission is to build world-class, client-centric technology solutions that drive competitive advantage, grow our global business, and deliver an investment experience that helps people get more out of life. Our success is driven by our people, which is why we invest heavily in our talent, promoting continuous learning and development, offering opportunities to work with emerging technologies, and creating the space to discover.
Invesco’s Cloud Engineering team is responsible for Invesco’s AWS cloud platform. The team’s mission is to design and build automation to enable Application Teams to deliver business value faster, simplifying processes, while ensuring quality and compliance of infrastructure. The team is comprised of 18 Engineers located in offices globally (NA, EMEA, and AP), working alongside Cloud Operations and vendor partners.
Your Role
The Cloud Compute Senior Engineer is responsible for designing and implementing infrastructure solutions to meet business needs. They will lead the development of cloud compute platforms by defining standards and building Infrastructure as Code following agile practices. They will build CI/CD pipelines to automate provisioning of cloud environments end to end, as well as enabling self-service capabilities for standard patterns. This Senior Engineer should be seen as a cloud compute expert, serving as a technical escalation point with the ability to solve highly complex problems.
The Senior Engineer will champion the application of industry best practices, cloud architecture strategies and engineering standards to ensure successful cloud solutions across a wide variety of products. This role will evangelize and educate application teams on how to leverage the power of public cloud. Advanced communication skills are required to persuade others to a particular point of view on issues of complexity.
You will be responsible for:
Full time
Worker Type
Employee
Job Exempt (Yes / No)
No
Workplace Model
At Invesco, our workplace model supports our culture and meets the needs of our clients while providing flexibility our employees value. As a full-time employee, compliance with the workplace policy means working with your direct manager to create a schedule where you will work in your designated office at least three days a week, with two days working outside an Invesco office.
What’s in it for you?
Our people are at the very core of our success. Invesco employees get more out of life through our comprehensive compensation and benefit offerings including:
Invesco's culture of inclusivity and its commitment to diversity in the workplace are demonstrated through our people practices. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, age, or veteran status. Our equal opportunity employment efforts comply with all applicable U.S. state and federal laws governing non-discrimination in employment.
If you're looking for challenging work, smart colleagues, and a global employer with a social conscience, come explore your potential at Invesco. Make a difference every day!
Job Description
As one of the world’s leading asset managers, we are solely dedicated to delivering an investment experience that helps people get more out of life. If you're looking for challenging work, smart colleagues, and a global employer with a social conscience, explore your potential at Invesco.
The Team
Our mission is to build world-class, client-centric technology solutions that drive competitive advantage, grow our global business, and deliver an investment experience that helps people get more out of life. Our success is driven by our people, which is why we invest heavily in our talent, promoting continuous learning and development, offering opportunities to work with emerging technologies, and creating the space to discover.
Invesco’s Cloud Engineering team is responsible for Invesco’s AWS cloud platform. The team’s mission is to design and build automation to enable Application Teams to deliver business value faster, simplifying processes, while ensuring quality and compliance of infrastructure. The team is comprised of 18 Engineers located in offices globally (NA, EMEA, and AP), working alongside Cloud Operations and vendor partners.
Your Role
The Cloud Compute Senior Engineer is responsible for designing and implementing infrastructure solutions to meet business needs. They will lead the development of cloud compute platforms by defining standards and building Infrastructure as Code following agile practices. They will build CI/CD pipelines to automate provisioning of cloud environments end to end, as well as enabling self-service capabilities for standard patterns. This Senior Engineer should be seen as a cloud compute expert, serving as a technical escalation point with the ability to solve highly complex problems.
The Senior Engineer will champion the application of industry best practices, cloud architecture strategies and engineering standards to ensure successful cloud solutions across a wide variety of products. This role will evangelize and educate application teams on how to leverage the power of public cloud. Advanced communication skills are required to persuade others to a particular point of view on issues of complexity.
You will be responsible for:
- Compute Product Ownership: Define and communicate the roadmap for AWS compute services and prioritize sprint goals to realize the roadmap.
- Technical Leadership: Provide hands-on technical expertise in designing, implementing, and optimizing AWS compute solutions.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with stakeholders, including developers and platform teams to gather requirements and prioritize features.
- Backlog Management: Create, maintain, and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring alignment with customer needs.
- Monitoring: Monitor compute infrastructure health, performance, cost optimization, and key metrics to drive continuous improvement and innovation.
- Design a secure Cloud Foundation, repeatable cloud patterns, templates, and/or accelerators to enable faster adoption of cloud services.
- Develop Infrastructure as Code to automate infrastructure provisioning , shifting security and compliance left.
- Provide technical mentoring and knowledge transfer to other Technology resources.
- Build a strong relationship and rapport with key stakeholders, including developers.
- 5 years of cloud engineering experience.
- 9 years-experience engineering and implementing global enterprise solutions.
- Expert level knowledge of Linux and Windows operating systems.
- In depth knowledge of AWS services such as IAM, EC2, ELB, S3, Lambda.
- Expert level knowledge of Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, such as Bitbucket Pipelines.
- Proficient in Python.
- Proficient in Packer image creation.
- Proficient in Ansible for configuration management.
- Experience in transforming legacy applications to cloud native architectures.
- AWS Certified Solution Architect, or ability to pursue certification within 3 months of hire.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required. Interpersonal skills necessary to effectively interact and communicate throughout the organization with a variety of individuals at all technical levels is required.
- Passionate about identifying and solving problems for customers and constantly improving customer experience. Strong analytical and critical thinking skills are a must.
- The ability to collaborate in a distributed team environment is critical, as well as leading cross-functional meetings to efficiently drive desirable outcomes.
- Expertise and understanding of Agile and DevOps operating model.
Full time
Worker Type
Employee
Job Exempt (Yes / No)
No
Workplace Model
At Invesco, our workplace model supports our culture and meets the needs of our clients while providing flexibility our employees value. As a full-time employee, compliance with the workplace policy means working with your direct manager to create a schedule where you will work in your designated office at least three days a week, with two days working outside an Invesco office.
What’s in it for you?
Our people are at the very core of our success. Invesco employees get more out of life through our comprehensive compensation and benefit offerings including:
- Flexible paid time off
- Hybrid work schedule
- 401(K) matching of 100% up to the first 6% with a discretionary supplemental contribution
- Health & wellbeing benefits
- Parental Leave benefits
- Employee stock purchase plan
Invesco's culture of inclusivity and its commitment to diversity in the workplace are demonstrated through our people practices. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, age, or veteran status. Our equal opportunity employment efforts comply with all applicable U.S. state and federal laws governing non-discrimination in employment.
