Our Firm
American Century Investments is a leading global asset manager focused on delivering investment results and building long-term client relationships while supporting research that can improve human health and save lives. Founded in 1958, the firm's 1,400 employees serve financial professionals, institutions, corporations, and individual investors, offering a wide range of investment strategies across a variety of investment disciplines.
We are committed to providing
institutional-quality,
Privately controlled and independent, we focus solely on investment management. This empowers us to align our decisions with client expectations and concentrate on their long-term money management needs.
Our culture of winning behaviors exemplifies our dedication to clients every single day. Delivering investment results enables us to distribute over 40% of our dividends-more than $1.8 billion - to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, a 500-person, non-profit basic biomedical research organization with a controlling interest in American Century Investments. Our dividend payments provide ongoing financial support for the Institute's work of uncovering the causes, treatments, and prevention of life-threatening diseases, like cancer.
For more information, please visit americancentury.com.
The primary responsibilities of the
DevOps Architect
Responsibilities
- Design, code, test, and implement quality solutions for our DevOps platform that improve the developer experience
- Provide technical support, coaching and maintenance of our DevOps platforms and vendor solutions
- Work as part of a KanBan team, committed to cycle goals and team improvement
- Build quality into products via test automation and secure coding practices
- Conduct peer code reviews with a commitment to coding standards, quality, and team improvement
- Keep abreast on technology trends and make recommendations to team
- Build team consensus and lead adoption around new technology, standards, and process.
- Collaborate with cross functional teams to continuously improve and gain efficiencies in the deployment pipeline.
- Communicate optimally and offer guidance and training when appropriate to application development teams
- Prepare and share documentation and knowledge as appropriate
Required Experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, finance or business and/or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
- Expert level understanding of DevOps practices and terminology.
- 10+ years of programming experience (preferred in Java, MuleSoft, React, Typescript, Javascript, Python)
- Strong scripting skills, i.e., Python, Bash, Ruby, Perl, etc and cloud infrastructure as code (IaC) scripting experience with Terraform or Cloudformation
- Experience writing SQL for an OLTP database such as PostgreSQL, DB2, or Oracle
- Extensive knowledge and working experience in AWS,
- Kubernetes/Microservices,
- Resilient demeanor to quickly learn from failures and move on to alternate solutions
- Adept in Agile principles and working in scrum or KanBan teams.
- Excellent Interpersonal skills
Preferred Experience
- Tekton pipeline automation
- Declarative GitOps experience with ArgoCD
- Broad AWS services knowledge and experience, especially on AI/ML and MLOps services
- Development and administration skills in OpenShift Container Platform or Kubernetes and Docker
- Consulting and leadership experience
- Diverse tech-stack exposure, innovative, and highly motivated
Required
- Candidates must have effective team and interpersonal communication skills, work with minimal direction, think out of the box, pay strict attention to detail and quality, and able to deal with ambiguous requirements by meeting with customers to drill down on specific results required. Ability to supervise work to deadlines while remaining flexible to changes. Must be willing to provide on-call support outside of business hours.
- Exhibits the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, Competitively Driven, Adheres to the highest ethical standards and business practices, and Supports a culture of compliance.
Additional Requirements
Employees are required to be in the office on a scheduled frequency. Adherence to this schedule is essential to fulfilling the expectations of the role.
American Century Investments is committed to complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act and all other applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations. As such, American Century strives to provide a reasonable accommodation to any qualified individual under the ADA to perform essential job functions.
American Century Investments believes all individuals are entitled to equal employment opportunity and advancement opportunities without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age for individuals forty years of age and older, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws. ACI does not discriminate or adopt any policy that discriminates against an individual or any group of individuals on any of these bases.
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