Principal Systems Engineer (Enterprise scheduling & orchestration platforms )

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Responsible for the administration, support, automation, and modernization of enterprise scheduling and orchestration platforms that support critical business processes across the organization. This role combines traditional infrastructure engineering with infrastructure automation, requiring expertise in Linux-based systems, scripting, troubleshooting, and platform operations. The engineer will support both legacy and modern scheduling technologies, contribute to platform upgrades and operational improvements, and help drive the evolution of enterprise scheduling capabilities.

This position works closely with engineering, application, security, and infrastructure teams to maintain highly available scheduling services, automate operational processes, improve platform reliability, and support future-state orchestration solutions. Responsibilities may include infrastructure administration, vulnerability remediation, patching, certificate management, automation development, workflow orchestration, and cloud-based platform enablement.

Responsibilities

• Administer, support, troubleshoot, and maintain enterprise scheduling and orchestration platforms, including technologies such as Autosys, Airflow, and similar enterprise automation solutions.

• Manage Linux-based production infrastructure, including system configuration, patching, performance tuning, vulnerability remediation, and operational support activities.

• Develop and maintain automation using Python, Go, Shell, or similar scripting and programming languages to improve platform reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.

• Design, implement, and support workflow orchestration solutions, including job dependencies, scheduling logic, error handling, and integrations across distributed systems.

• Participate in platform upgrades, migrations, and modernization initiatives while ensuring stability and availability of production services.

• Diagnose and resolve complex infrastructure, application, and workflow-related issues through effective troubleshooting and root cause analysis.

• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, security, and engineering teams to deliver reliable scheduling and automation services.

• Support certificate management, security remediation activities, compliance requirements, and infrastructure maintenance efforts.

• Contribute to monitoring, observability, performance optimization, and resiliency improvements across scheduling and orchestration platforms.

• Participate in production support processes, including incident response, problem management, and continuous improvement activities.

• Support the adoption of modern infrastructure and automation practices, including Infrastructure-as-Code, cloud technologies, container platforms, and CI/CD capabilities where appropriate.

• Document operational procedures, platform standards, architecture decisions, and automation solutions.

Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
- At least 7 years of experience within a total information technology (IT) environment
- At least 7 years of experience with the design, development and support of technology infrastructure

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits: 

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

• Basic term and optional term life insurance

• Short-term and long-term disability

• Pregnancy disability and parental leave

• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan

• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)

• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities

• Adoption assistance

• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

Review our full benefits available by employment status here.

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.

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U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment. U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. U.S. Bank is subject to, and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA). In addition, certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA, NMLS registration, Reg Z, Reg G, OFAC, the NFA, the FCPA, the Bank Secrecy Act, the SAFE Act, and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement, such as those related to ethics, safety, or operational procedures.

Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.