At Franklin Templeton, everything we do is focused on one thing – delivering better client outcomes. We do that by partnering closely with our clients, assessing their strategic needs, and identifying the solution or solutions that can meet the challenge. Over 9,500 employees working in 34 countries around the world are dedicated to servicing investment solutions for our clients in more than 160 countries. For more than 70 years our success has been a direct result of the talent, skills and persistence of our people, and we are looking for qualified candidates to join our team.

What is the Cloud Engineering Team responsible for?

• The Cloud Engineering team in FTT organization offers Public Cloud platforms (AWS and Azure) for Franklin Templeton developers to drive faster time-to-market, innovation with public cloud capabilities, and reduce complexity with built-in integrations. We believe in high quality engineering culture to engineer our platforms with customer and platform mindset, design for large enterprise scale and resilience, and accelerate market innovation into the technical platforms we deliver.

• As part of this team, you will have a large impact on the evolution of next generation Cloud services for FT and explore an extensive list of new technologies that will drive innovation across our company.

What is the Senior Engineer responsible for?

• We are seeking a Senior Engineer to join our Franklin Templeton Technology organization and play a pivotal role in developing and realizing the multi-cloud strategy of FT. We are looking for people who are passionate about cloud technologies, and about using them to solve interesting business problems for our customers and Application Development teams. If you’re collaborative, technical, and enjoy working on big challenges, we think you’ll enjoy working with us.

What are the ongoing responsibilities of a Senior Engineer?

• Architect cloud-based solutions that meet the needs of our business. This includes working with application teams in designing and deploying services in the cloud

• Provide expert level guidance on Cloud design decisions, standards, and operational practices

• Be an active member of Cloud Center of Excellence to define and govern best practices in Cloud platforms engineering, cloud operations, cloud-native application development, and cloud platform governance

• Plan and implement the selection of new cloud services and tools to enable cloud roadmap

• Maintain blueprints and reference implementations of cloud products

• Partner with Information Security teams to engineer secure app patterns and have “security from the get-go” model into Cloud platforms

• Work with teams that have high application complexity to provide guidance on cloud platforms, and escalate risks and issues as appropriate

• Communicate problems and challenges to drive discussions across key stakeholders –engineering, operations, developers, and leadership

What ideal qualifications, skills and experience would help someone to be successful?

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

• 10+ years of demonstrated expertise in leading Cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure

• Proven expertise in leading cloud platforms like AWS, Azure

• Experience in delivering large scale distributed enterprise platforms with focus on performance, scale, security, reliability, and Cost Optimization

• Experience in DevOps and GitOps models with infra-as-code, config-as-code, policy-as-code, etc. with technologies such as Terraform

• Experience with on-premises based Private Cloud and Public Cloud platforms such as Azure, and AWS

• Experience in native CSP orchestration stacks (e.g., Azure ARM templates, AWS CloudFormation)

• Experience in container-native technologies such as Kubernetes, container native virtualization, network, etc.

• Experience in cloud-native logging, monitoring, and operations tools – Datadog, Prometheus, etc.

• Must be expert level in one or more of the following, with familiarity with the others:

  • Cloud IAM

  • Cloud network and security design

  • Cloud-native Kubernetes services (AKS, EKS) design and implementation

  • Experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Ansible, CloudFormation, Salt

  • Demonstrated excellence in organizational, leadership, communication, coaching, and troubleshooting skills

Job Level - Individual Contributor

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