Platform Infrastructure Cloud, SRE Engineer - Assistant Vice President

iCapital is powering the world’s alternative investment marketplace. Our financial technology platform has transformed how advisors, wealth management firms, asset managers, and banks evaluate and recommend bespoke public and private market strategies for their high-net-worth clients. iCapital services approximately $176 billion in global client assets invested in 1,433 funds, as of December 2023. 

 

iCapital has been named to the Forbes Fintech 50 for seven consecutive years (2018-2023); a three-time selection by Forbes to its list of Best Startup Employers (2021-2023); and a three-time winner of MMI/Barron’s Solutions Provider award (See link below).  

 

About the Role 

The Platform Infrastructure team at iCapital plays a critical role in keeping the production and development environments running smoothly and securely.  This Vice President role will utilize advanced cloud capabilities to facilitate the Platform Infrastructure strategy of market agility and lean operating principles with a strict focus on quality to meet the ever-growing demands of our clients. iCapital is seeking a highly collaborative, creative, and intellectually curious Platform Infrastructure Engineer who is passionate about forming and implementing cutting-edge cloud computing capabilities.  This Platform Infrastructure Engineer will wear multiple hats in a highly visible role, interacting with all aspects of the business is essential. 

Responsibilities 

• Build highly available solutions across the entire SDLC stack with primary focus on an internet facing fintech site. 
• Develop and maintain tools to support the development environment on MacOS and Linux tool environment with focus on improving developer productivity.  
• Maintain site reliability with a focus on building highly scalable systems, integrating resiliency and high availability at all levels. 
• Develop software and tooling to secure and automate cloud infrastructure building software delivery capabilities with fully automatic workflows. 
• Design and operation of a Kubernetes environment for container management and orchestration. 
• Participate in on-call rotations to help understand the system while helping build tools for automation. 

 

Qualifications 

• 5+ years of DevOps, TechOps, or SRE experience with 3+ years of AWS experience 
• Microservices (Docker, Kubernetes) experience in a production environment strongly desired 
• Strong Linux OS-level and command-line/scripting knowledge and configuration management principles 
• Working knowledge of databases such as MongoDB, Postgres, DynamoDB 
• Experience in architecting, implementing, and managing monitoring tools such as Prometheus/Grafana, CloudWatch, Splunk, NewRelic and ELK in the cloud 
• Coding beyond simple scripting with strong opinions on maintainable/reusable code in Python, Ruby, or Java desired 
• Experience with infrastructure provisioning on a Cloud based platform using Terraform and/or Cloud formation 
• Experience with distributed systems design, maintenance, and hands-on troubleshooting/debugging skills  
• Exceptional analytical skills, able to apply knowledge and experience in decision-making to arrive at creative and commercial solutions 
• Experience building a Microservice based architecture 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 
• Experience in updating runbooks, tools, and documentation that help the team to respond to incidents proactively 
• Able to design and implement complex, but easily managed, automated infrastructure 
• A desire to share, teach, and learn as part of a team 
• AWS certifications are a plus 

  

Benefits 

The base salary range for this role is $120,000 to $160,000.  iCapital offers a compensation package which includes salary, equity for all full-time employees, and an annual performance bonus. Employees also receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes an employer matched retirement plan, generously subsidized healthcare with 100% employer paid dental, vision, telemedicine, and virtual mental health counseling, parental leave, and unlimited paid time off (PTO). 

We believe the best ideas and innovation happen when we are together. Employees in this role will work in the office three days, with the flexibility to work remotely two days.  Every department has different needs, and some positions will be designated in-office jobs, based on their function.

For additional information on iCapital, please visit https://www.icapitalnetwork.com/about-us  Twitter: @icapitalnetwork | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/icapital-network-inc | Awards Disclaimer: https://www.icapitalnetwork.com/about-us/recognition/ 

iCapital is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. 

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Last updated on Aug 26, 2024