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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 on its customers and is consistently awarded for both. We’re all about people , and our employees are why Discover 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.

The Principal Infrastructure Engineer uses a vast repertoire of experience delivering high impact engineering solutions to work intuitively. This Engineer role knows where to look if something breaks and is key in solving challenges quickly. Principal I n frastructure Engineers are skilled in finding new ways to build technical cap abilities and influencing the adoption of best practices.

Key Responsibilities:
Core Engineering of the Enterprise API Infrastructure
Core Engineering of the API Gateway (Broadcom Layer7)
Core Engineering of the API Lifecycle Management toolset
Creation of appropriate dashboard/monitoring and logging for API runtimes using AppDynamics and Elasticsearch technologies.
Maintain and continue evolving the integration with ServiceNow as the system of record for API Change Management
Maintain and continue evolving the integration with the CI/CD toolset to control environment propagation and automated API publish and API consumer onboarding.
Evangelize the Enterprise API Strategy and facilitate presentations to a wide audience of internal and external stakeholders

Responsibilities also include:
Regular interaction with Product Manager, Product Owner and Product Architect for evolution, security enhancement and API Gateway Infrastructure growth strategies.
Support, engineer and build activities for Portal, Gateway and API Lifecycle engineering teams and overall direct responsibility for health of the platforms.
Leads and executes on strategic technical objectives for security and evolution initiatives across API technology platforms.
Performs technical analysis, design, build and deployment of highly complex / scalable API Platform.
Infrastructure procurement facilitation and deployment through Cloud Engineering and Infrastructure teams.
Works with an offshore team and acts as Level 3 on-call support to help the Level 1 team
Performs API Platform engineer, build upgrades, patching, security vulnerability fixes.
Performs automation for repeated operations activities using tools like Github, Jenkins, Ansible, Nexus, Service Now, Bash, Python
Guide new technology solutions in the API space and partner with Architecture and Security teams to take through the Architecture Review process.
Contributes to product delivery, influenced by strategic direction across Business Technology and enterprise including investment decisions (i.e. build vs buy) across multiple products. Uses automation, system tools, open-source solutions, observability and 'security first' principles in daily work
Contributes to team agile ceremonies, leads demos and presentations, helps new engineers learn established norms
Bridges desired Business features to BT capabilities and executes groundwork in requirement translations and design. Initiates detailed level solution design approaches across multiple domains, and guides team to achieve desired key software delivery capabilities using automated, coded enterprise and observability
Participates in (internal/external) speaking and advocacy events. Coaches core technology communities and is actively engaged in understanding and researching new technologies
Researches and adopts new technology solutions and ways to build technical capabilities
Continues professional education and creates opportunities for broader engineering teams to learn industry best practices

Minimum Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

Bonus Points If You Have:
10+ years of Infrastructure/Middleware experience, especially in Layer 7 API Gateway
5+ years of application development and implementation experience
5+ years of Java experience
3+ years of Agile experience
Apigee, MuleSoft’s API Gateway or other leading API Gateway/management/lifecycle solutions
Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
3+ years of experience in financial services, healthcare, or other regulated industries
3+ years of product development experience
3+ years of experience working with Linux based servers, patches, upgrades and shell scripting.
Proven ability to communicate with business and technical groups easily, ability to communicate with various levels within the team, partners and stake holders
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills: demonstrated proficiency of identifying risks, proposing and implementing controls.
Must be able to articulate complex concepts and be able to tailor the message to different audiences including senior leadership, technical teams, operations and line of business partners.
Excellent relationship and partnership skills, ability to work closely and influence decision making with partners.
Detailed knowledge of HTTP REST concepts, JSON, JSON Schema, the Swagger JSON REST specification, the HTTP protocol and status codes.
Modern SDLC concepts and tools such as JIRA, Rally, Git/GitHub, Jenkins, Chef, Ansible, etc.
Experience with modern software development processes (Agile, Scrum etc.) within a large enterprise environment
Knowledge of messaging platforms like WMQ, Rabbit.
Detailed knowledge and understanding of CI/CD concepts, including modern automation testing concepts, code quality metrics and build/dependency management tools

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.

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All Discover employees place our customers at the very the 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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