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Principal Cloud Architect

SEI Investments Company
Oaks, PA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/17/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/17/2025

At SEI we value our employees and believe in driving growth through change. Part of building brave futures is making a concerted effort to develop and challenge our employees to achieve their goals through internal job mobility.

The SEI Technology - Site Reliability Engineering organization has a challenging career opportunity for a Principal Cloud Architect. This position requires a foundation of software development and infrastructure knowledge, the ability to work in a fast-paced team environment, and desire to expand existing skills through technical project work.

You should be adaptable, possess a wide range of technical skills, and demonstrate the ability to understand financial services business requirements and translate into reliable and scalable solutions in order to build and deploy SEI’s Cloud Native technology infrastructure and applications. You should be able to design scalable systems, deliver individual code as well as technically lead a team of engineers; and have the ability to switch context quickly and work efficiently with project managers, cloud engineers, application developers, technical operations and other personnel.

What you will do :

  • Design and build SEI’s next generation of Infrastructure and Platforms (as Code) on the public cloud using a combination of open source and internally developed tools.
  • Work hand-in-hand with other Technical Leads to help drive best practices and deliver multitenant distributed systems at scale on the public cloud following industry best practices.
  • Lead the design and implementation of resilient, scalable, performant, secure, and cost-effective cloud architectures.
  • Provide Architectural and Technical leadership to project team members.
  • Analyze and resolve issues found during the testing or pre-production phases of the software delivery lifecycle.
  • Analyze and optimize existing cloud infrastructure for performance, reliability, scale, and cost-efficiency. Implement monitoring, alerting, and auto-remediation strategies.
  • Responsible for ensuring team designs and delivers code in alignment with published SEI & industry standards.
  • Provide technical problem resolution and application support, as required.

Our Tech Stack :

includes but not limited to) Nginx, Apache, HAProxy, PingMFA, Java (Springboot), .NET, Python, Go, Kafka, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Kubernetes, Portworx, Longhorn, ArgoCD, Terraform, Ansible, Prometheus, Mimir, OpenTelemetry, Velero, Dynatrace, RHEL, OL, KVM

What we need from you :

  • BA / BS, in a related technical field; or the equivalent in education and work experience.
  • A minimum of 10 years of prior work experience with a combination of Linux Systems Administration, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Systems Engineering, Development, Solution Architecture or related work.
  • A minimum of 3 years of prior work experience acting as a Technical Lead or Technical Architect.
  • Demonstratable experience at building relationships with engineering teams and leading teams through architectural changes from inception to production implementation.
  • Strong working experience with at least one cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI).
  • Knowledge of both cloud design principles as well as demonstratable hands-on experience is expected.
  • Experience with Security tooling and industry best practices using tools like Wiz, Crowdstrike, Nessus, PrismaCloud, etc.
  • Strong knowledge of systems design and foundation in Linux, Networking, Kubernetes.
  • Experience writing internal applications, scripts, and tools using various scripting or programming languages (Bash, Python, Go, Java, Terraform, Ansible, etc).
  • Demonstrated ability to create system architecture diagrams and documentation for review by both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • What we would like from you :

  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Strong system / technical analysis skills.
  • Self-motivation with an ability to prioritize multiple tasks.
  • Ability to develop a strong internal network across the platform.
  • Excellent collaboration, communications, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills.
  • Ability to think creatively and seek optimum solutions.
  • Ability to grasp loosely defined concepts and transform them into tangible results and key deliverables.
  • Very strong problem-solving skills.
  • Diagnostic skills with the ability to analyze technical, business and financial issues and options.
  • Ability to infer from previous examples, willingness to understand how an application is put together.
  • Action-oriented, with the ability to quickly deal with change.
  • Someone who will embody our SEI Values of courage, integrity, collaboration, inclusion, connection and fun.
  • SEI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and so much more…

    After over 50 years in business, SEI remains a leading global provider of investment processing, investment management, and investment operations solutions. Reflecting our experience within financial services and financial technology our offices encompass an open floor plan and numerous art installations designed to encourage innovation and creativity in our workforce. We recognize that our people are our most valuable asset and that a healthy, happy, and motivated workforce is key to our continued growth. At SEI, we’re (literally) invested in your success. We offer our employees paid parental leave, back-up childcare arrangements, paid volunteer days, education assistance and access to thriving employee networks.

    SEI is an equal opportunity / affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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