Sr DevOps Platform Engineer
Job Description
M&T Bank, a prominent financial institution with over 165 years of history, is seeking a Senior DevOps Platform Engineer to join their technology team. This role combines technical expertise with strategic infrastructure management, offering a hybrid work arrangement with the flexibility to work remotely two days a week.
The position involves leading technical efforts in containerization and application deployment across private and public cloud environments. The ideal candidate will be responsible for ensuring the reliability and performance of infrastructure used to build, test, deploy, observe, and operate enterprise applications and web services.
As a Senior DevOps Platform Engineer, you'll be at the forefront of infrastructure automation and application deployment, working with cutting-edge technologies including container orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code tools. The role requires extensive experience in DevOps practices, with a focus on building scalable and reliable infrastructure solutions.
The compensation package is competitive, ranging from $121,699 to $202,831 annually, reflecting the senior nature of the position and the expertise required. M&T Bank offers comprehensive benefits and emphasizes a culture of community involvement, even providing 40 hours of paid volunteer time annually.
This role presents an excellent opportunity for an experienced DevOps engineer looking to make an impact in a well-established financial institution that values innovation and technical excellence. The position combines the stability of a large bank with the excitement of modern technology transformation, making it an ideal choice for professionals seeking to advance their careers in DevOps and platform engineering.
Responsibilities For Sr DevOps Platform Engineer
- Partner with applications teams to design and build highly scalable and reliable infrastructure
- Partner with applications and infrastructure teams to orchestrate and automate application deployments
- Build automation and process to enable self-serve production deployments
- Code, configure, integrate, manage, and enhance various automation tools
- Partner with team members and managers to build out platform observability
- Participate in application and infrastructure release and deployment activities
Requirements For Sr DevOps Platform Engineer
- Combined minimum of 8 years' higher education and/or work experience in systems design, management and/or architecture
- A minimum of five years leading efforts in DevOps with expert skills in automated code deployments
- Solid knowledge of domain and industry tools (CNCF, DevOps, CI/CD, Secrets Management, Container Registries)
- Solid experience deploying highly available applications in on-premises environments and Azure clouds
- Must have demonstrated skills and experience writing Ansible playbooks for automation and building pipelines
- Experience with infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible)
- Experience working with build, test, and deployment tools
- Experience working with Source Control Management Systems
- Experience working with container and container orchestration
Benefits For Sr DevOps Platform Engineer
- Medical benefits
- Retirement benefits
- 40 hours paid volunteer time annually
