Why USAA?
At USAA, our mission is to empower our members to achieve financial security through highly competitive products, exceptional service and trusted advice. We seek to be the #1 choice for the military community and their families.
Embrace a fulfilling career at USAA, where our core values - honesty, integrity, loyalty and service - define how we treat each other and our members. Be part of what truly makes us special and impactful.
The Opportunity
The Public Cloud Enablement unit is responsible for defining, delivering, and supporting enterprise-ready capabilities that allow teams to confidently run workloads in the public cloud with the same quality of service, operational rigor, and security posture traditionally associated with on-premises environments. This unit provides a unified, paved path for securely deploying and managing modern cloud-native workloads, particularly AWS Lambda, AWS EKS, and similar Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services.
A key aspect of this role is the delivery and lifecycle stewardship of enterprise application arche@types, such as Serverless, developed in close partnership with Operations and Security, and other cross-functional units. These arche@types serve as repeatable templates that accelerate cloud adoption, simplify integration, and promote consistent engineering practices across business domains. As one of the four Centers of Excellence within the broader public cloud portfolio, PI aligns to the evolving cloud platform capability roadmap and helps drive the long-term vision for scalable, compliant, and developer-friendly cloud services.
The outcomes driven by this unit include enabling agile teams with compliant pipelines with supported runtimes, and safe landed capabilities; accelerating public cloud adoption through proven architectural patterns; and ensuring compliant application delivery through secure and standardized approach.
We offer a flexible work environment that requires an individual to be in the office 4 days per week. This position will be based in San Antonio. Relocation assistance is not available for this position.
What you'll do:
Under direct supervision, design, develop, code, and test technical solutions.
Write code to deliver features, and improvements, on a regular basis
Verify and resolve technical problems and production issues through troubleshooting techniques.
Improve application stability and scalability
Create and maintain technical documentation
Create and improve automated tests and code quality
Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.
What you have:
Bachelor's Degree or 4 additional years of experience beyond the minimum requirement can be used in lieu of a degree OR Approved certification from CodeUp, Galvanize, VetFIT (Veterans for IT) or eFIT (Employees for IT).
Up to 2 years of software development experience.
Foundational and conceptual knowledge of function/discipline and demonstrated application of knowledge, skills, and abilities towards work products.
Basic Understanding of one or more of the following: Java, Swift, Objective-C, Cobol, JavaScript, Kotlin, C++, HTML, CSS, SQL, Go, and Python
Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions
Basic understanding of cloud technologies and tools.
What sets you apart:
Hands-on experience with GitLab CI/CD, including creating, modifying, and troubleshooting pipelines for application builds, testing, and deployments.
Foundational understanding of Amazon Web Services (AWS), with exposure to core compute, networking, IAM, serverless, or container services (e.g., Lambda, EKS, VPC, Security Groups, IAM policies).
Basic networking knowledge, including concepts such as VPCs, subnets, CIDR, routing, load balancing, DNS, and secure connectivity patterns.
Familiarity with Test-Driven Development (TDD) principles and experience writing unit tests, integration tests, or validation scripts as part of the delivery lifecycle.
Exposure to performance monitoring and observability tools, such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, X-Ray, or similar technologies.
General understanding of cloud engineering concepts, including infrastructure-as-code, least-privilege access, containerization, and cloud-native application patterns.
Experience working with pipeline-driven workflows, including build automation, quality gates, artifact management, and automated deployment strategies.
Understanding of Agile delivery practices, such as iterative development, sprint planning, retrospectives, and cross-functional collaboration.
Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to troubleshoot issues across multiple layers of the stack.
Ability to collaborate effectively with engineering, operations, and security teams in a fast-moving environment.
A growth mindset and desire to learn, with enthusiasm for evolving cloud technologies, platform engineering concepts, and enterprise-scale cloud adoption patterns.
Salary: The salary range for this position is: $63,590.00- $114,450.00
USAA does not provide visa sponsorship for this role. Please do not apply for this role if at any time (now or in the future) you will need immigration support (i.e., H-1B, TN, STEM OPT Training Plans, etc.).
USAA views its internship program as a pipeline to possible future employment. This is based on an individual's graduation date, performance, role qualifications, and business need. To be considered for possible future employment opportunities interns must meet the full-time work eligibility requirements for any given role. Thus, interns should ensure their sponsorship status and other provided information is accurately reflected on their intern application. Inadequate completion of your application may render you ineligible for further consideration in the hiring process.
Compensation: USAA has an effective process for assessing market data and establishing ranges to ensure we remain competitive. You are paid within the hourly range based on your experience and market data of the position. The actual hourly rate for this role may vary by location.
The above description reflects the details considered necessary to describe the principal functions of the job and should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be performed in the job.
Benefits: At USAA our employees enjoy best-in-class benefits to support their physical, financial, and emotional wellness. These benefits include comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans, 401(k), pension, life insurance, parental benefits, adoption assistance, paid time off program with paid holidays plus 16 paid volunteer hours, and various wellness programs. Additionally, our career path planning and continuing education assists employees with their professional goals.
Interns may not be eligible for all benefits, for more details on our outstanding benefits, please visit our benefits page on USAAjobs.com.
Applications for this position are accepted on an ongoing basis, this posting will remain open until the position is filled. Thus, interested candidates are encouraged to apply the same day they view this posting.
USAA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
If you are an existing USAA employee, please use the internal career site in OneSource to apply.
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Find your purpose. Join our mission.
USAA is unlike any other financial services organization. The mission of the association is to facilitate the financial security of its members, associates and their families through provision of a full range of highly competitive financial products and services; in so doing, USAA seeks to be the provider of choice for the military community. We do this by upholding the highest standards and ensuring that our corporate business activities and individual employee conduct reflect good judgment and common sense, and are consistent with our core values of service, loyalty, honesty and integrity.
USAA attributes its long-standing success to its most valuable resource: our 35,000 employees. They are the heart and soul of our member-service culture. When you join us, you'll become part of a thriving community committed to going above for those who have gone beyond: the men and women of the U.S. military, their associates and their families. In order to play a role on our team, you don't have to be connected to the military yourself - you just need to share our passion for serving our more than 13 million members.
USAA is an EEO/AA Employer - applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, protected veteran status or other status protected by law.
California applicants, please review our HR CCPA - Notice at Collection (https://statmcstg.usaa.com/mcontent/static\assets/Media/enterprise\hr\cpra\notice\at\collection.pdf) here.
USAA is an EEO/AA Employer - applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, protected veteran status or other status protected by law.
