Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

About The Engineering Team
“Establish a world-class, hands-on team that applies innovative technology solutions to drive scale and attack opportunities with the greatest commercial impact”

Sixth Street Engineering is dedicated to applying technology to private and public market investments in a unique and progressive way. Our Engineers enjoy startup-style responsibilities and impact potential, an experienced leadership team, and the broad resources of Sixth Street, a $60B AUM investment firm. We are committed to hiring exceptional people with diverse experiences and backgrounds.

The Role

Sixth Street is looking for a talented Sr Cloud Platform Engineer interested in growing their career in a small engineering team with big goals. The successful candidate will need to be comfortable handling multiple issues at a time from different teams requiring context switching between established and newer technologies. Being able to think on your feet while seeing the near-, mid- and long-term impact of your decisions is a must for successful candidates. You may find yourself working identity problems spanning multiple Active Directory directories, Okta and Amazon Web Services IAM Identity Center, find yourself debugging Kerberos while juggling net new reference architecture builds in AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), writing Identity and Access Manager (IAM) policies, building GitHub Actions (GHA) workflows, instrumenting net new code bases, deploying Cloud Custodian policies, remediating security incidents, teaching new developers about AWS or working with and managing external vendors to implement net new technologies. When things get hard, the successful candidate will know when to delegate to other team members, be able to automate workflows with ease to scale themselves and when to ask for help. We act as One Team pushing each other towards a better tomorrow for our Sixth Street Technology Platform: are you up for the challenge?  
 
This is a full-time role based in Dallas, TX, New York, NY or remote for the right candidate. The Cloud Platform practice is part of the Infrastructure Engineering Team at Sixth Street, which is a nimble team that focusses on four practices to leverage technology in modern and scalable ways: Service Desk, Platform, Office Buildouts and Workplace Technology. In this role you will also have opportunities to work closely with in-house technologists on software development teams, team up with your peers on the Infrastructure team, external vendors as well as end users. You will be contributing to Sixth Street Engineering’s long-term Cloud vision that drives our technology infrastructure and will focus on the day-to-day implementation our Cloud environment, in tight collaboration with development teams. 

Core Responsibilities

• Demonstrates strong software skills. At Sixth Street we don’t just write scripts, code via Google or “monkey patch.” We strive to code towards the IEEE “-ilities” and think the world would be better if others did too. Ideal candidates can easily switch between various *nix shell syntaxes, the Command Line Interface (CLI) on Windows and GNU/Linux, debug Python 2.x and 3.x, understand JavaScript among other languages. 
   
• Makes the cloud look easy. At Sixth Street we don’t look at the Cloud as hype but rather a market differentiator. Sixth Street’s vision is to heavily leverage modern Cloud technologies to build better products and be the leader in our industry. Successful candidates will be expected to know AWS in and out and understand the Cloud is not just a fractional lease data center but an Application Programming Interface (API) atop physical and real-world components we instrument to make technology look like magic.  
   

•  Collaborates and interacts. Sixth Street Engineering is a small group, supporting everything large enterprise departments support with a fraction of the team. We can only function this way when team members document, build, share and understand when to push their ideas and when to build with ideas from other team members. Sixth Street is leveraging everything from traditional Windows workflows to modern containerized solutions. Building scalable, highly available, secure and fault tolerant architectures on AWS using CDK and deploying them via GitHub Actions will be a must but so is being able to debug traditional server-oriented software, networking and access patterns on conventional stacks such as Windows and Linux servers. 

• Questions, Learns and Educates. At Sixth Street we constantly ask “Why?” Some organizations clam to do this, but we live it every day. If we don’t know “Why?” we find out and make things happen! Then, once we know, we document that new knowledge and share it. A successful candidate will work in Atlassian Jira, document their findings in Atlassian Confluence and use tools like GitHub, Slack, Zoom, Artifactory and other tools in our repertoire to multiply their impact. Certifications are important but a bias for action coupled with experience and knowledge is preferred over paper. Making things happens is deeply ingrained in our culture. 

What We Value

• Commitment to applying DevOps concepts in target environments: automation, everything as code, culture of collaboration across different domains, iterative development, strong observability 
• Result-oriented, commercial and focused on what matters 
• Team orientation and influencing skills 
• High Trust and Integrity 
• Entrepreneurial Mindset  
• Strong combination of organizational and interpersonal/communication skills 

Preferred

• Highly motivated, entrepreneurial, self-managed and team-oriented candidates with strong   problem-solving skills 
• At least ten years of proven experience in Infrastructure Engineering. Relevant degree is preferred but not strictly required 
• Experienced at communicating tasks with individual contributors and sharing status with key stakeholders  
• Expert at leveraging public cloud concepts such as Infrastructure-as-Code, cost monitoring and control, IAM, CI/CD pipelines 
• Familiar with Open Source SDLC components commonly used to support Python-based software development: IDEs, debuggers, packaging tools, test automation, etc. 
• Excellent understanding of modern application architectures: Platform as a Service, SaaS, microservices as well as application architectures based on the REST API. 
• Familiarity with the Microsoft product ecosystem: .Net, Azure DevOps, Visual Studio, Active Directory, SQL Server, Power Tools (PowerBi, PowerAutomate). 
• Comfortable working in a high growth, iterative and collaborative environment with frequent interactions with software development and cybersecurity teams  
• Awareness of Workplace Technology functions such as desktops, central device management capabilities, user device monitoring and networking  
• Hands-on experience with common IT management and communication tools like Jira and Confluence  
• Comfortable with remote work using tools such as Zoom, Slack and Box  
• Experienced with Agile methodology and familiarity with DevOps principles 
• Possesses a strong sense of urgency and prioritization; ability to execute quickly and efficiently with strong attention to detail while keeping track of multiple parallel projects  
• Strong verbal and written communication abilities  

About Sixth Street

Sixth Street is a leading global investment firm founded in 2009. Our long-term oriented, highly flexible capital base and "One Team" cultural philosophy allow us to invest thematically across sectors, geographies, and asset classes.

We aren’t looking for any single type of person. Our strength is in our team, a collection of people from different backgrounds and with their own perspectives, united in the mission of being the world’s best investment firm. 

From how we conduct business to how we engage in our communities, everything we do at Sixth Street is rooted in our commitment to our core principles: 

• We have a bias towards Action. We initiate, execute and deliver results.
• We have Integrity. We are ethical and direct in word and deed.
• We are Responsible. We are accountable for our business, to our team, and to our communities.
• We value Teamwork. We are humble and better together
• We are Intra- and Entrepreneurial.  We seek to innovate both inside and outside our business.
• We have a Cross-Platform Focus. We think across the business and avoid silos at all costs.

For more information, visit the Sixth Street Careers site or follow us on LinkedIn.

Sixth Street is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer and we encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, genetic history, marital status, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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