Job Description

Ally and Your Career

Ally Financial only succeeds when its people do - and that's more than some cliche people put on job postings. We live this stuff! We see our people as, well, people - with interests, families, friends, dreams and causes that are all important to them. Our focus is on the health and safety of our teammates as well as work-life balance and diversity and inclusion. From generous benefits to a variety of employee resource groups, we strive to build paths that encourage employees to stretch themselves professionally. We want to help you grow, develop, and learn new things. You're constantly evolving, so shouldn't your opportunities be, too?

The Opportunity

The Fellow, Application Engineer is a critical role in our engineering practice focused on horizontally preparing teams for building, testing, and deploying stable, scalable, and reliable code for all Ally digital applications. Collaborating with multiple internal teams across disparate groups to resolve application reliability issues. Crafting and maintaining our digital applications in a Cloud Computing environment using AWS, Apigee, Kubernetes, and Docker. Serving as a liaison between our enterprise technology organization and application teams to address performance issues or problem analysis and see them through to resolution. Leeds and coordinates Infrastructure as code for digital applications from a technology perspective, ensuring that infrastructure as code development activities are consistent with the direction set by best practices and standards at Ally. Also, an escalation point of contact for application support issues, and is required to be able to handle challenging issues related to supporting various applications and systems. Participation in an active on-call rotation is vital to maintaining acceptable levels of service delivery for all Ally digital applications.

Ally Digital's Tech stack: AWS, OpenShift (Kubernetes), Helm, Jenkins, Java, JavaScript, Python, Terraform and more!

The Work Itself

* Partner with development teams to ensure proper knowledge and implementation of CI/CD processes and tools
* Partner with Enterprise DevOps team to ensure CI/CD tools and processers meet development team requirements
* Continuously tune and validate quality of current tools for network, system monitoring, client session monitoring, and log file parsing. Partner with enterprise tool team to ensure a strong toolkit is in place and properly implemented
* Develop and maintain processes for rapidly onboarding new developers onto our development stack including proper Git repository access, CI/CD tool access, monitoring tool access, proxy access, etc.
* Help cultivate a developer-centric engineering culture by identifying and lowering hurdles which get in the way of efficient and enjoyable coding practices

The Skills You Bring

Required Technical Skills

* Expert-level experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Nexus, OpenShift, Crucible, Maven, etc.
* Expert-level experience with development tools such as source control (Git) and industry standard IDEs (VS Code, Eclipse, Sublime, Xcode, etc.)
* Expert-level understanding of administration of web servers such as NGINX, JBoss, Apache, Node.js, etc.
* Expert-level understanding of the full application lifecycle across various web and native mobile applications and how the pieces of the stack communicate with each other
* Extensive hands-on experience with web application monitoring tools (Splunk, AppDynamics, HTTPWatch, UI-session replay tools, Apteligent, Firebase, etc.)
* Ability to write shell scripts and a passion for automation
* A true passion for developer experience, as evidenced by an obsessive developer focus, as well as an ability to render complexity down to its truest essence
* Mid-level experience with serverless development and operations
* Strong expertise in large scale distributed system designs
* Strong experience in successful delivery of high-quality production services and systems
* 7+ years of experience and a degree in a technical field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience

Preferred Technical Skills

* Native mobile application CI/CD processes and tools
* Amazon Web Services (AWS) and experience integrating CI/CD processes with AWS
* Experience with Atlassian suite of tools such as Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence, etc.
* Experience with Spring and/or JavaScript frameworks (React, Angular, Ember, Vue.js, etc.)

Behavioral & Communication Skills

* Excellent communication skills at all levels, from team members to senior management
* Must have the ability to work in a team within an Agile operating model
* Ability to exchange constructive and respectful feedback
* Must be able to collaborate with wider groups on standards and best practices
* Enthusiasm and a desire to be part of an innovative team
* A commitment to quality, and a desire to improve

How We'll Have Your Back

Ally's compensation program offers market-competitive base pay and pay-for-performance incentives (bonuses) based on achieving personal and company goals. But Ally's total compensation -- or total rewards -- extends beyond your paycheck and is designed to support and enrich your personal and professional life, including:

* Time Away: competitive holiday and flexible paid-time-off, including time off for volunteering and voting.
* Planning for the Future: plan for the near and long term with an industry-leading 401K retirement savings plan with matching and company contributions, student loan and 529 educational assistance programs, tuition reimbursement, and other financial well-being programs.
* Supporting your Health & Well-being: flexible health and insurance options including dental and vision, pre-tax Health Savings Account with employer contributions and a total well-being program that helps you and your family stay on track physically, socially, emotionally and financially.
* Building a Family: adoption, surrogacy, and fertility support as well as parental and caregiver leave, back-up child and adult/elder day care program and child care discounts.
* Work-Life Integration: other benefits including LifeMatters Employee Assistance Program, subsidized and discounted Weight Watchers program and other employee discount programs.

Who We Are

Ally Financial is a customer-centric, leading digital financial services company with passionate customer service and innovative financial solutions. We are relentlessly focused on "Doing it Right" and being a trusted financial-services provider to our consumer, commercial, and corporate customers. For more information, visit www.ally.com.

Ally is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy status, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic disposition or any other reason protected by law.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical or mental disabilities. For accommodation requests, email us at work@ally.com. Ally will not discriminate against any qualified individual who is capable of performing the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.