Technology Resiliency Engineer- Mid Level

Why USAA?

At USAA, our mission is to empower our members to achieve financial security through highly competitive products, exceptional service and trusted advice. We seek to be the #1 choice for the military community and their families.

Embrace a fulfilling career at USAA, where our core values – honesty, integrity, loyalty and service – define how we treat each other and our members. Be part of what truly makes us special and impactful.

The Opportunity

The Technology Resiliency Engineer - Mid Level, helps to ensure the organization’s critical technology services and infrastructure are resilient, recoverable, and compliant with regulatory expectations, including those outlined in the FFIEC Business Continuity Management guidance. This role requires an understanding of cloud architectures, and the ability to evaluate and assess resilience patterns and controls across cloud workloads. This engineer partners with platform teams, developers, and resilience architects to proactively mitigate risks, improve failover readiness, and ensure compliance with ERG standards. This role leads Association-wide efforts to embed resiliency into technology operations and business resiliency strategies, with a focus on proactive risk, mitigation and continuous improvement.

Responsible for creating, modifying, maintaining and supporting infrastructure and individual and integrated system components and solutions that enable business functions and IT Services. Balance availability, security, efficiency and functional requirements to help provide an optimized production service. Identify and manage existing and emerging risks that stem from business activities and ensure these risks are effectively identified and escalated to be measured, monitored and controlled.

We offer a flexible work environment that requires an individual to be   in the office 4 days per week.   This position can be based in one of the following locations : Charlotte, NC, San Antonio, TX, Plano, TX, or Phoenix, AZ.

Relocation assistance is   not   available for this position.

What you'll do :

• Under limited supervision, designs scalable IT system infrastructure, implements system changes with consistency and autonomy, and automates service delivery and maintenance tasks; builds monitoring and tooling for systems.
• Independently, resolves complex technology production issues by troubleshooting IT systems. Identifies opportunities for improvements and makes recommendations to management.
• Analyzes complex outages and identifies opportunities for system improvements.
• Understands and consistently exercises engineering best practices, concepts, and patterns
• Understands the customer and identifies solutions and ideas for the customer with some assistance
• Evaluates potential Technology solutions with some oversight
• Mentors’ junior engineers and may being mentoring peer engineer
• Develop software defined infrastructure in code in CI / CD Pipelines
• Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

What you have :

What sets you apart :

Compensation range :   The salary range for this position is : $93,770-$179,240.

Compensation : USAA has an effective process for assessing market data and establishing ranges to ensure we remain competitive. You are paid within the salary range based on your experience and market data of the position. The actual salary for this role may vary by location.

Employees may be eligible for pay incentives based on overall corporate and individual performance and at the discretion of the USAA Board of Directors.

The above description reflects the details considered necessary to describe the principal functions of the job and should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be performed in the job.

Benefits : At USAA our employees enjoy best-in-class benefits to support their physical, financial, and emotional wellness. These benefits include comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans, 401(k), pension, life insurance, parental benefits, adoption assistance, paid time off program with paid holidays plus 16 paid volunteer hours, and various wellness programs. Additionally, our career path planning and continuing education assists employees with their professional goals.

For more details on our outstanding benefits, visit our benefits page on USAAjobs.com.

Applications for this position are accepted on an ongoing basis, this posting will remain open until the position is filled. Thus, interested candidates are encouraged to apply the same day they view this posting.

USAA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.