Job description

Discover. A brighter future.
With us, you’ll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors: We Play to Win, We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. And we mean it — we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world's leading digital banking and payments companies. We value what makes you unique so that you have an opportunity to shine.

Come build your future, while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover.

Job Description
At Discover, be part of a culture where diversity, teamwork and collaboration reign. Join a company that is just as employee-focused as it is customer-focused and is consistently awarded for both. We’re all about people, and our employees are why Discover Financial Services is a great place to work. Be the reason we help millions of consumers build a brighter financial future and achieve yours along the way with a rewarding career.

As an Application Automation Engineer, you will make a big impact in strengthening our Payment Services applications by designing and implementing automation solutions. In our Agile environment, you’ll focus on automation solutions to eliminate manual tasks and improve/modernize the reliability of our applications (availability, self-healing, performance, efficiency, monitoring, reporting, forecasting and capacity planning of our services). Your projects will deliver enhanced infrastructure, development, and deployment automation at Discover, improving the quality and efficiency of our Payment Services group. Your automation will connect analytics and reporting to metrics collected during production support processes, as well as enable and improve diagnostics and problem resolution for payment applications.
Responsibilities
Create automation solutions addressing high impact technology and business priorities
Convert automation requirements into solution & code
Competent in multiple contexts, including programming languages, automation, analytics, testing, and business domains and is the go-to person for many people (inside and outside of their team)
Identify and deliver proactively automation solutions
Creates models, reports and dashboards to closely monitor performance metrics and provide insights
Self-driven to learn new systems and works in automation use cases in new applications that might require learning (new tools/scripts/languages)
Participate in strategic technology discussions on how these automation decisions impact Discover as a whole
Minimum Qualifications

At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:
Bachelors – Computer Science or related
3+ Years – Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related
Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of competent on the Dreyfus engineering scale
Preferred Qualifications

Bonus points if you have:
Coding and scripting experience (Python, Java, Spring Boot, Jenkins, Selenium, Bash, Linux/Unix command & environment exposure, Basic HTML+CSS, SQL, NoSQL, PSQL).
Experience with analytics, data science, or machine learning models
Additionally experience in any of the following would be helpful, but not necessary
Experience with performance engineering
Proficient in monitoring, alerting, analyzing and troubleshooting large scale distributed systems
Experience in DevOps skills and methodologies - creating and managing a continuous build, integration, test, and deployment systems
Experience with OpenShift Container Platform, AWS or other cloud computing platforms, Big Data ecosystems, Oracle, MySQL, MariaDB, Postgres, Tableau. #LI-AM2 #Remote #BI-Remote

What are you waiting for? Apply today!

All Discover employees place our customers at the very center of our work. To deliver on our promises to our customers, each of us contribute every day to a culture that values compliance and risk management.

The same way we treat our employees is how we treat all applicants – with respect. Discover Financial Services is an equal opportunity employer (EEO is the law) . We thrive on diversity & inclusion. You will be treated fairly throughout our recruiting process and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status in consideration for a career at Discover.

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