Director, Cloud Engineering
at Fidelity Investments
Posted 6 days ago
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- Compensation
- $204,090 – $214,090 USD
- City
- Not specified
- Country
- United States
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Leads cloud engineering initiatives to accelerate development and reduce costs through modern cloud computing, observability tooling, and open-source frameworks. Builds and sustains scalable cloud platforms and CI/CD pipelines, including configuration management, incident management, logging, and auditing in multi-hybrid environments. Partners with product and engineering leadership to define roadmaps, requirements, and vision, while evaluating new technologies to advance secure cloud platforms. Requires a Bachelor's or Master's degree with 4-6 years in director-level roles shaping highly scalable, secure observability platforms.
Job Description:
Position Description:
Accelerates development and drives down costs through modern computing paradigms, Cloud computing, and open-source software, using observability SaaS providers (Datadog, Splunk, Cloud Providers and AWS/Azure). Understands IT services, IT Service Management in an Enterprise context, and Cloud delivery models including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS). Incorporates and streamlines test automation into software application builds using Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline tools.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Creates and drives Observability Integrations roadmaps that blend scalable automation and security within multi hybrid Cloud environments.
- Builds, configures, and sustains internal and external Cloud platforms with development ecosystems.
- Performs configuration management, incident management, problem management, asset management, and logging and auditing.
- Collaborates with other product and engineering leads, and senior management on product and delivery requirements, roadmaps, and vision.
- Investigates, proves out, and incorporates new technologies and capabilities to drive the technology vision for secure Cloud platforms.
- Determines system performance standards.
- Monitors the functioning of equipment to ensure system operates in conformance with specifications.
- Analyzes information to determine, recommend, and plan installation of new systems or modification of an existing system.
Education and Experience:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and six (6) years of experience as a Director, Cloud Engineering (or closely related occupation) planning, designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining highly scalable and secure observability platforms within a highly complex and highly regulated environment.
Or, alternatively, Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and four (4) years of experience as a Director, Cloud Engineering (or closely related occupation) planning, designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining highly scalable and secure observability platforms within a highly complex and highly regulated environment.
Skills and Knowledge:
Candidate must also possess:
- Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) designing and building opensource observability platforms for large data scale in a multi-hybrid Cloud environment, using opensource frameworks and standards (OpenTelemetry, Node Blackbox Exporter, Prometheus, and Grafana); monitoring system health and performance using observability products (Datadog, Splunk, Kibana, and Cloudwatch).
- DE designing and building highly scalable, high performing telemetry data processing pipelines using Kafka, Pub/Sub, and Kubernetes; enabling solutions to provide observability for various stacks in a distributed system, including network, load balancers, application servers, and databases, using instrumentation and profiling methodologies; evaluating application performance by simulating production load patterns in lower environments; and performing benchmarking, tuning, and capacity planning.
- DE designing, developing, and testing both frontend and backend software applications using Python, React JS, No-SQL, REST APIs, and HTML; managing infra as code; performing code version control using Git; building CI/CD solutions using Jenkins; and building automation tools using Python and Shell scripts.
- DE defining technology and product roadmaps; creating and prioritizing product backlogs, using Jira and Jira Align; participating in continuous planning using the Agile methodology; creating and maintaining roadmaps; and determining direction based on customer usage tracking.
Salary: $204,090.00 - $214,090.00/year.
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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.
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At Fidelity, we are passionate about making our financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want! We are a privately held company that places a high degree of value in creating and nurturing a work environment that attracts the best talent and reflects our commitment to our associates. We are proud of our diverse and inclusive workplace where we respect and value our associates for their unique perspectives and experiences. For information about working at Fidelity, visit FidelityCareers.com. Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to complete the application or interview process.
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At Fidelity, you’ll find endless opportunities to build a meaningful career that positively impacts peoples’ lives, including yours. You can take advantage of flexible benefits that support you through every stage of your career, empowering you to thrive at work and at home. Honored with a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award, we have been recognized by our employees as a Best Place to Work in 2026. And you don’t need a finance background to succeed at Fidelity—we offer a range of opportunities for learning so you can build the career you’ve always imagined.
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