Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer
Chicago, IL, Dallas, TX OR Jersey City, NJ
Hybrid – onsite 2-3 days per week, WFH 2-3 days per week

Position Summary:
This role is open with a financial services company. This company is currently engaged in building out cutting-edge clearing, settlement, and risk systems. These systems will be natively running on public cloud and on an on-premises data center. To support migration of cloud-based solution to on-premises data center, the teams will be building a Kubernetes-based virtual environment. The work will be divided across core platform engineering and DevOps teams. We are looking for a DevOps lead that will help develop the necessary echo system (Jenkins-based CI/CD, Helm charts, terraforms, ansible, monitoring, etc.) that will be required to migrate public cloud-native Risk Framework (there are over dozen different products within Risk Framework) to an on-prem production environment.

Responsibilities:

• This person should be conversant with various cloud (specifically AWS) technologies to help us in developing equivalent services using cloud neutral vendor products.
• Should have proven experience in running project with few DevOps engineers.
• Actively participates and lead requirement analysis and reviews to identify missing or incomplete requirements.
• Follows agreed upon SDLC procedures to ensure that all information system products and services meet both explicit and implicit quality standards, end-user functional requirements, architectural standards, performance requirements, audit requirements, security rules are upheld, and external facing reporting is properly represented.
• Assists Production Support by providing advice on system functionality and fixes as required
• Communicates in a clear and concise manner all time delays or defects in the software immediately to appropriate team members and management
• Assist with departmental and new employee training

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience developing IT solutions
• At least 3 years of DevOps/Site Reliability Engineering experience
• Experience with Kubernetes/EKS
• Familiarity with the following DevOps tools preferred: Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Maven/Gradle, Nexus/Artifactory and/or CI/CD pipeline
• Experience with cloud technologies and migrations, preferably with AWS
• Some understanding of/exposure to Java

Nice to have:

• Experience migrating cloud-based solutions to/from on-premises data centers
• Previous experience with fintech development or financial services
• Experience with AWS foundational services: VPCs, Security groups, EC2, RDS, S3 ACLs, KMS, AWS CLI, IAM, etc.
• Experience with distributed message brokers: Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Amazon Kinesis, etc.
• Experience with high-speed distributed computing frameworks: AWS EMR, Hadoop, HDFS, S3, MapReduce, Apache Spark, Apache Hive, Kafka Streams, etc.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect or OCP Java SE 8 Programmer Certification is a plus