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Principal, Cloud Engineer

Principal, Cloud Engineer

locationWestlake, TX, USA
PublishedPublished: 8/22/2025
Full Time

Job Description:

Fidelity Asset Management Solutions (FAMS) team is looking for a hardworking, highly motivated Cloud Engineer with strong experience of DevOps, SRE to deliver CI/CD pipelines, support developers, enable services at high scale, high availability with resilience by using automation and Infrastructure Code. We build reliability into our ecosystem by applying best practices in Resiliency Engineering, Automation, Observability & Chaos Testing.

The team comes from diverse technical backgrounds, and the responsibilities provide the opportunity for a variety of challenges. Ideal candidates will have a background in Cloud, DevOps engineering and SRE. We are looking for a Systems Thinking, SRE Engineer who has helped teams build CI/CD pipelines, scale through production insights, operational automation, developer guidance, real-time metrics, automation, automation and automation!


The Expertise You Have

  • Overall experience of 8+ years with a bachelor’s degree or higher in a technology related field (e.g. Engineering, Computer Science, etc.) required

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience with advanced Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery (Jenkins), deploying and/or supporting highly distributed multi-tiered systems at scale

  • 1-2 years of experience in Cloud development (AWS) and migration skills; Experience with building and operating highly resilient platforms in AWS cloud environments

  • 2-4 years of experience in software development with Python, NodeJS, or Java with a focus on SDLC and automation

  • Hands-on experience with container orchestration, preferably with Kubernetes

  • Experience operating and implementing distributed & highly concurrent service-based


The Skills You Bring

  • Ability to automate with various scripting languages (Python, Shell scripting)

  • Experience with developing advanced Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline including software configuration management, test automation, version control, static code analysis using (Jenkins, Ansible, Docker).

  • Experience managing systems using infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible)

  • Solid understanding of Cloud Computing (AWS) and DevOps concepts including CI/CD pipelines

  • Hands-on Kubernetes skills and knowledge.

  • Hands on experience with one or more observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, OpenTelemetry, etc…)

  • Experienced in Instrumentation with systems skills on building and operating, monitoring, logging, alerting services of distributed systems at scale

  • Proven experience in maintaining scalability and resiliency of complex environment.

  • Proven experience in implementing advanced observability practices and techniques at scale with ability to utilize modern monitoring tools (DataDog, Prometheus, Splunk, …)

  • Experienced in Instrumentation with systems skills on building and operating, monitoring, logging, alerting services of distributed systems at scale

  • Ability to triage, execute root cause analysis, and be decisive under pressure

  • Proficient communication skills with an ability to reach both technical and non-technical audience

  • Ability to learn new software, method and practices and bringing them to our developers

  • Ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups, both in person and virtually, in a constructive and collaborative manner and build and maintain effective relationships

  • Demonstrated expertise in Production support, including incident management, root cause analysis, real-time monitoring, and high availability and reliability of critical systems in a fast-paced environment

The Value You Deliver

  • Support development squads with DevOps delivery and implement best engineering practices

  • Deliver high quality, timely, cost effective and maintainable software solutions in an agile environment to meet functional and non-functional business requirements

  • Help define and execute a comprehensive reliability and observability strategy, ensuring that Fidelity’s systems are always available when our customers need them

  • Bring together technical, procedural, and financial data to reduce toil and increase efficiency

  • You will execute plans for technical standardization and process refinement within the engineering organization, especially for Site Reliability Engineers

  • Troubleshoot stack-wide engineering issues related to hardware, software, network, applications, and cloud service providers (AWS & Azure)

  • Coach peer SREs and development squads on how to build highly available systems and enable visibility/monitoring


The Team

  • We have a passion for technology and love fixing and solving complex problems.

  • We enjoy working in teams, love to collaborate, share and grow knowledge.

  • We like open communication and people who are self-motivated, can take initiative, and can make decisions with a bias toward action.

  • We encourage team members to take ownership and care about the quality of work.

  • We think about the testability of code and Design and architecture patterns.

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Category:

Information Technology

Fidelity’s hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office.

Please be advised that Fidelity’s business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.