Operations Engineer (Cloud)
Stifel Financial Corp6 months ago
Memphis, TN, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Configure and manage AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery and related disaster recovery services and patterns.
- Create and maintain disaster recovery cutover runbooks covering dependencies, communications, validations, and rollback.
- Plan and execute disaster recovery tests, failovers, and failbacks; document results and drive remediation.
- Build and maintain Terraform infrastructure-as-code modules and standards.
- Automate provisioning and repeatable operational workflows through scripting and tooling.
- Improve disaster recovery readiness through monitoring and alerting for replication health, backups, and recovery workflows.
- Coordinate with security and risk teams to ensure disaster recovery solutions meet control and compliance expectations.
- Support FinOps practices including tagging, allocation, reporting, and cloud cost optimization.
- Analyze cloud spending, trends, and optimization opportunities using Apptio Cloudability or AWS Cost Management.
- Produce technical documentation and present information to influential audiences.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
- At least 5 years of experience in cloud/platform engineering, DevOps/SRE, or systems engineering.
- Demonstrated experience implementing and testing disaster recovery strategies in AWS.
- Experience building and maintaining infrastructure-as-code and automation through scripting.
- Proficiency with AWS cloud platforms, networking, data storage, compute, backup/replication, and cloud resiliency methods.
- Proficiency with Terraform or comparable infrastructure-as-code tools and Python, PowerShell, and/or Bash.
- Strong understanding of RTO/RPO definition, runbook development, recovery validation, testing, and remediation.
- Familiarity with ISO 22301, FFIEC guidelines, NIST SP 800-34, and ITIL.
- At least one AWS certification, such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer.
- Preferred qualifications include DRS and Terraform experience, FinOps Certified Practitioner certification, ITIL Foundation or similar certification, and familiarity with Splunk, Datadog, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CodePipeline, Docker, ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes.
- Strong analytical, written, verbal communication, documentation, and deadline-management skills.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, vision care, 401k, wellness initiatives, life insurance, and paid time off.
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About Stifel Financial Corp
Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF) provides full-service wealth management, brokerage, investment banking, research, and sales and trading to individuals, institutions, and municipalities. Operating through Stifel, Nicolaus & Company and affiliated banks and broker-dealers, it has more than 400 U.S. locations and subsidiaries in Europe and Canada. Founded in 1890 and headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, it generates fees and commissions from advisory, underwriting, and trading activities.