Cloud Network and Security Platform Engineer, Staff

At Jack Henry, we deliver technology solutions that are digitally transforming and empowering community banks and credit unions to provide enhanced and streamlined user experiences to their customers and members. Our best-in-class products are just the start as we lay the groundwork for the future of digital banking and payments. We hope you'll join us. We can't do it without you.

Want to be part of a team responsible for shaping the networking and security posture across our enterprise cloud environments? Do you enjoy the challenge of helping others navigate the migration from classical networking and security to modern solutions? We seek a highly skilled Platform Engineer who will contribute by applying modern network and security best practices across our cloud environments. The ideal candidate brings a strong technical background in modern cloud platforms to a highly collaborative team that utilizes DevSecOps, SRE practices, infrastructure as code, and policy as code.

This position is fully remote in any US location or can work out of any Jack Henry office. Travel to a physical JH office during the onboarding process may be required, and there may be additional travel for team meetings and training events. Pay range for this position is $140-200k, depending on candidate experience and geographic location.

What you'll be responsible for:

• Help define a codified, scalable, resilient, and secure network architecture across all cloud platforms.
• Work with product engineers and other leaders to design secure solutions and improve our offering; primarily in the areas of security, network availability, performance, and observability solutions.
• Scale network and security efforts by empowering engineering teams with automation, security guidance, tooling, patterns, and training.
• Participate in organizational capacity planning, performance monitoring, and optimization discussions
• Collaborate with our Developer Experience team to contribute to our internal developer platform.
• Collaborate with our Observability Platform team on contributions to meaningful metrics, logging, and alerting.

What you'll need to have:

• A minimum of 10 years of combined experience in software development, cloud, systems, security, or network engineering, DevOps, and/or working in infrastructure-as-code environments.
• Understanding and experience with declarative infrastructure using Terraform.
• A minimum of 2 years of experience with Azure, AWS, and/or GCP.
• Ability to write high-quality code in an infrastructure-driven language. (e.g., Go, Python, etc.).
• Understanding and experience with security-related tools in cloud environments.
• Experience with deploying and managing cloud networking components including any or all of the following: VPCs, Firewall, Load Balancers, VPNs, Interconnects.

What would be nice for you to have:

• The ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy and responsibility.
• Enterprise-scale experience with security and network best practices for Cloud platforms. We value engineers who eat, sleep, and dream about container runtime security, mitigating potential security vulnerabilities within deployment pipelines, protecting infrastructure from malicious ingress traffic, and having knowledge of common bad actors based on CIDR, ASNs, or other identifiers.
• Experience on teams that designed and operated critical infrastructure, particularly with a focus on building reliable and secure mission-critical infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of DevSecOps practices and experience in developing or managing CI/CD pipelines.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and mentoring skills. We strive for very humble leaders who appreciate transparency in communications and have a strong desire to mentor and guide other engineers to higher levels of contributions.
• Experience working across teams on requirements gathering, deployments, migrations, and/or security initiatives.
• Deep understanding of BGP routing protocols, IPSec configurations, cloud routers, virtual routers, global and regional load balancers.
• Scaling ingress and egress security solutions across multiple regions and cloud platforms (cloud firewalls, DDoS platforms, etc.).
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to analyze complex issues and provide effective solutions.

If you got this far, we hope you're feeling excited about this opportunity. Even if you don't feel you meet every single requirement on this posting, we still encourage you to apply. We're eager to meet motivated people who align with Jack Henry's mission and can contribute to our company in a variety of ways.

Why Jack Henry?

At Jack Henry, we pride ourselves through our motto of, "Do the right thing, do whatever it takes, and have fun." We recognize the value of our associates and believe much of our company's strength and success depends on their well-being.

We demonstrate our commitment by offering outstanding benefit programs to ensure the physical, mental & financial well-being of our people is always met.

Culture of Commitment

Ask our associates why they love Jack Henry, and many will tell you it is because our culture is exceptional. We do great things together. Rising to meet challenges and seeking opportunities is part of who we are as an organization. Our culture has helped us stay strong through challenging times and we credit our dedicated associates for our success. Visit our Corporate Responsibility site to learn more about our culture and commitment to our people, customers, community, environment, and shareholders.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At Jack Henry, we know we are better together. We value, respect, and protect the uniqueness each of us brings. Innovation flourishes by including all voices and makes our business - and our society - stronger. Jack Henry is an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to providing equal opportunity in all of our employment practices, including selection, hiring, performance management, promotion, transfer, compensation, benefits, education, training, social, and recreational activities to all persons regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, genetic information, pregnancy, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, and military and veteran status, or any other protected status protected by local, state or federal law.

No one will be subject to, and Jack Henry prohibits, any form of discipline, reprisal, intimidation, or retaliation for good faith reports or complaints of discrimination of any kind, pursuing any discrimination claim, or cooperating in related investigations.

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