Associate Platform Engineer

ABOUT US:

Kestra Holdings offers industry-leading wealth management platforms for independent wealth management professionals nationwide. With an innovative culture that celebrates independence, the company seeks to redefine the future of the advisory industry through superior service, cutting-edge technology, and preeminent resources that every financial professional needs to succeed in the market now and in the years to come.

Kestra Holdings companies collectively oversee $123 billion in assets under administration (AUA) and support more than 2,400+ independent financial professionals across the country in delivering comprehensive securities, trust, and investment advisory services to their clients. Located in the “Silicon Hills” of Austin, Texas, Kestra Holdings offers an experience as unique as the city in which it operates.

SUMMARY:

Kestra is a growing leader in the financial services industry and has recently completed a transition of its flagship web application, Advisor Complete, into Azure. Now that we are running fully in Azure, we are looking for capable and engaged DevOps Platform Engineer to assist our cloud infrastructure team in continuing to support and grow the platform. Additionally, Kestra is rapidly acquiring other firms in the financial services arena, at least multiple per quarter, further expanding the number of assets we need to either move to or manage in the cloud.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: To perform this job successfully, individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily:

• Design and implement scalable solutions for enterprise level challenges
• Monitor and anticipate network or compute related issues due to traffic
• Provide cloud-centric guidance and thought leadership to other members of engineering teams to design or improve features
• Maintain IaC repositories written using Bicep
• Contribute to scripts used by teams in runbooks and other maintenance work
• Identify improvements to existing cloud infrastructure and innovate ways to further increase efficiency
  
  

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND/OR ABILITIES: To perform this job successfully, the individual should have the following skills and abilities.

• Extensive understanding and experience with the following Azure functionality:
• Identity and Access Management
• Azure AD
• Application Registrations/Enterprise Applications
• RBAC
• PIM
• Azure Policy
• Network
• Azure Firewall
• Virtual WAN/Hubs
• Express Routes
• Azure Front Door/App Gateway
• Peering
• Route Tables
• Private DNS Zones
• Network Watcher
• Host Files
• Cloud Data Storage
• Databricks
• ETL solutions
• Storage Accounts/S3
• Azure SQL/RDS
• Compute
• Elasticsearch
• Virtual Machine Management
• Backup
• Familiarity with the general concepts and basic administration of:
• FTP Servers
• Internet Information Server (IIS)
• SQL Server 2017
• Windows Server 2016 & 2019
  

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: None

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE:

• Experience managing Azure tenants and resources
• Experience working in Systems Administrator capacity
  
  

CERTIFICATIONS, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS:

• Exam AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
• Exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator
• Exam AZ-700: Designing and Implementing Microsoft Azure Networking Solutions
• Exam AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions – Highly Desired
• AWS/GCP Certifications can be had in lieu of Microsoft Certifications
  
  

PHYSICAL DEMAND: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Ability to sit at a computer for long periods of time in office environment well lit.
• Position is located in the Austin, TX office. Must be able to work in the office during scheduled work hours.
  
  

OTHER DUTIES: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a complete comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

INTERNAL APPLICANT POLICY:

Internal applicants must be in good standing and have a minimum of 1 year of service with Kestra. Internal applicants must also have a minimum of 1 year service in current role unless approved by EVP.

BENEFITS:

Full health, vision, dental. 401(k) plans along with a host of voluntary plans such as car insurance, legal services and more.

DISCLOSURE

By applying to a job at Kestra Financial, Inc., you are agreeing to the following statements:

• You acknowledge that if hired, Kestra Financial, Inc. may, obtain and use background information concerning your credit, character, general reputation, personal characteristics, work habits, performance and experience for evaluation for your potential employment.
• It is the policy of Kestra Financial to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, national origin, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Kestra Financial prohibits any such discrimination or harassment.
  
  

KESTRA VALUES:

Our Mission is Powering Financial Independence, enabling the growth and success of investing clients and the advisors who serve them. We do that by living our values: SERVE, MAKE IT HAPPEN, and ONE TEAM.

Kestra Holdings offers industry-leading wealth management platforms for independent wealth management professionals nationwide. With an innovative culture that celebrates independence, the company seeks to redefine the future of the advisory industry through superior service, cutting-edge technology, and preeminent resources that every financial professional needs to succeed in the market now and in the years to come.