Principal Engineer II - Infrastructure as Code Engineer

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What you'll do:

• Design endtoend solution architectures that can be effectively handed off to lowerlevel engineers for execution, ensuring platform reuse, standardization, and scalability where possible.
• Review and validate technical designs and implementation plans developed by engineers and analysts to ensure highquality solutions that can support the volumetric, performance, and reliability requirements of business partners.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, including Cloud resource provisioning in Azure, Automated environment buildouts, and Disaster recovery environment deployments
• Design and implement Golden Image baselines and establish a controlled revision and lifecycle management process to support secure and consistent deployments.
• Customize environment buildouts to meet applications specific requirements while maintaining adherence to enterprise standards and reusable patterns.
• Build and maintain comprehensive measurement and observability dashboards that provide actionable performance insights into key banking applications, enabling operational decisionmaking while enforcing IT standards.
• Serve as a liaison between IT and Application teams to identify, prioritize, and drive automation opportunities across infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
• Manage Ansible Linux hosts and oversee the Azure Marketplace deployment and operation of the Ansible Automation Platform, ensuring stability, security, and scalability.
• Produce and maintain formal solution documentation independently or in partnership with Architecture teams, including: 0Physical and logical architecture diagrams, Crossreferenced usecase and deployment models, and Documentation suitable for longterm operational reference
• Enforce architectural and operational standards and contribute to the creation, refinement, and enhancement of IT procedures that support infrastructure and operational teams across the organization.

What you'll need:

• 10+ years of relevant professional experience in technology, engineering, or related domains.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field required; Master's degree or MBA preferred, or equivalent professional experience.
• Prior leadership experience preferred, including technical leadership, solution ownership, or oversight of complex, enterprisescale initiatives.
• Advanced expert knowledge of Financial Services or Banking environments, including enterprise operations, risk management, and regulatory considerations.
• Advanced to expert understanding of regulatory and legal compliance obligations, applicable rules and regulations, industry standards, and best practices within a regulated financial institution.
• Proven experience leading crossfunctional teams and managing multiple concurrent initiatives, with deep expertise in one or more core banking domains (e.g., Deposits, Loans, Operations, or Reporting).
• Demonstrated ability to define, articulate, and walk through highlevel process designs, translating business, regulatory, and operational requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Experience partnering with regulatory bodies (e.g., CFPB, OCC, FRB) to support audits, examinations, and ongoing collaboration efforts as required.
• Proficiency in the Microsoft ecosystem, including Azure, Microsoft 365, and Active Directory, with handson experience designing and implementing modern infrastructure solutions aligned with Microsoft best practices.
• Experience working closely with network, server, storage, application teams, and product owners to design and deliver automation and infrastructure solutions.
• Selfmotivated and capable of working effectively with distributed teams across multiple locations and organizational boundaries.
• Strong understanding of strategic, emerging, and evolving technology trends, with the ability to assess applicability and enterprise value.
• Demonstrated ability to build trust, credibility, and respect as a thoughtful leader, capable of influencing and persuading business leaders, IT leadership, and engineering teams.
• Enterprisefirst, objective mindset, remaining unbiased toward specific technologies or vendors; decisions driven by data, analysis, and proofofconcept results.
• Ability to work effectively in highly collaborative, teambased environments, including complex, matrixed organizations.
• Advanced to expert familiarity with enterprise capability models across IT, including awareness of existing application and infrastructure platforms to maximize reuse while introducing new solutions where appropriate.
• Proven experience in the design, enhancement, and enforcement of IT governance frameworks, ensuring compliance with published standards, procedures, and architectural controls.
• Advanced written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly convey complex technical concepts to both technical and nontechnical audiences.

Benefits you'll love:
We offer all the important things you'd want - like competitive salaries, an ownership stake in the company, medical and dental insurance, time off, a great 401k matching program, tuition assistance program, an employee volunteer program, and a wellness program. In addition, you'll have the opportunity to bolster your business knowledge, learning the ins and outs of how successful companies operate and manage their finances, giving you invaluable hands-on experience to help grow your career!

About the company:

Western Alliance Bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation. Alliance Bank of Arizona, Alliance Association Bank, Bank of Nevada, Bridge Bank, First Independent Bank, and Torrey Pines Bank are divisions of Western Alliance Bank; Member FDIC. AmeriHome Mortgage is a Western Alliance Bank company.

Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to equal employment and will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, color, religion, age, nation origin, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or genetic information. Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process and/or need an alternative method of applying, please email HR@westernalliancebank.com or call 602-386-2488. When contacting us, please provide your contact information and state the nature of your accessibility issue. We will only respond to inquiries concerning requests that involve a reasonable accommodation in the application process.

Western Alliance Bancorporation