Platform Engineer

Position Summary

Assured Guaranty is seeking a platform engineer to drive the adoption of cloud technologies within Assured Guaranty’s computing environment.

The platform engineer will partner and collaborate with consumers of IT and applications in the organization; empowering Assured Guaranty to leverage cloud technologies and principles while maintaining strong security, governance, resilience, and reliability.

Primary Responsibilities

Responsibilities will include:

• Design, implement, maintain and manage resources through infrastructure as code in order to provide a self-service platform to consume cloud resources.
• Expertise with the following technologies:
• HashiCorp Terraform
• HashiCorp Vault
• GitHub, GitHub Actions
• AWS EC2, ECS/EKS, Docker, Lambda Functions
• Networking concepts including VPC, segmentation, firewall rules
• Proficiency in Linux
• Automated testing tools
• Contribute to standards related to the adoption, implementation, and use of cloud technologies. This includes security, identity and access management, compliance, cost management, license management, performance management and monitoring.
• Continuously review adopted cloud technologies reducing duplication of technologies, driving expertise and automation.
• Work closely with IT security to ensure the adoption of cloud resources aligns with the company’s security posture.
• Work closely with IT development teams to collaboratively implement standard toolsets with appropriate configuration and governance in place to ensure developers have an attractive ecosystem to work and create.

Candidate Background

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent is required
• A minimum of 2 years’ experience in similar role
• Practical work experience in IDLC processes such as Incident, Problem and Change Management.
• Ability to communicate and interact effectively with all stakeholders at all levels of the organization
• It would be beneficial, but not required, to possess a certification such as an MCSE Cloud Platform and Infrastructure, or Amazon Web Services Certified Solutions Architect

Compensation

Annual base salary for the position is expected to be from $130,000 per year to $160,000 per year. The actual salary will depend on various factors, including but not limited to a candidate’s experience and credentials, salary expectations of applicable candidates, and other applicable market conditions. This position also provides applicable employee benefits, as well as eligibility for an annual discretionary bonus.