Infrastructure Automation Development Lead ( Python scripting experience required)

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Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work and providing a culture of caring is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. We are intentional about fostering an inclusive workplace where every teammate has the opportunity to succeed, build a career and contribute to our shared success. This includes attracting and developing exceptional talent, recognizing and rewarding performance, and supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness through affordable, competitive and flexible benefits.

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Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture that supports collaboration, engagement, and career development. Our approach includes clear in-office expectations, while providing an appropriate level of flexibility based on role-specific responsibilities and business needs.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Position Summary:

This role is responsible for leading the software development of infrastructure automation routines which support building infrastructure that private cloud services are delivered on. Key responsibilities of the role include defining the programming architecture and languages, setting strategy for how code is delivered, and implementing routines to ensure that code that is delivered adheres to a common standard. Solutions should be entirely API based and form part of the wider Infrastructure as Code approach. The candidate will need to analyze existing capabilities and develop a strategy for how to integrate and expand them in a sustainable way. Experience of the infrastructure side is useful but not essential, the key accountability of the role is to ensure the integrity of the software that runs the automations. The candidate will need to work closely with the infrastructure engineering team who define the infrastructure design.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Ownership of the software code base for infrastructure automation routines

  • Definition of coding strategy and ownership of code review routines

  • Development of world class APIs to enable interaction with other systems

  • Day to day work allocation and tracking for a team of half a dozen developers

  • Ensure adherence of the team to a robust release cycle process

  • Support/mentor/coach for the team on design and best practices for high code performance – e.g. pairing, code reviews.

  • Interaction with infrastructure engineering team to understand desired outcomes, and ensure that the software that is developed delivers them

  • Deliver work using an Agile methodology and use Jira for work assignments and tracking

  • Development of automated regression testing to streamline release cycles

Required Qualifications

  • Experience leading a coding team

  • Proficiency in Python scripting

  • Proficiency in orchestrating workflows using Ansible

  • Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts and CI/CD pipelines supporting automated builds, validation, and deployments.

  • Strong focus on testing and reliability, including automated integration/validation testing and troubleshooting of complex workflows.

Desired Qualifications:

  • Experience of the VMWare Stack

  • Use of Teraform for infrastructure builds

  • Familiarity with Powershell scripting

  • Experience working on Infrastructure as Code deployments

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

40

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