Description

Job Description:

Experience:

  • 5+ years hands-on admin experience at the platform and application tiers supporting critical Customer Facing applications preferably in the Financial Services Industry.
  • 5+ years of experience troubleshooting environments across the entire architecture (i.e., applications to infrastructure).
  • 3+ years of hands-on Linux administration experience.
  • 3+ experience with Oracle SQL, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, Flink, Postgres, or similar data technologies.
  • 1+ Years supporting and monitoring service load balancing architectures including F5 & VMware AVI.

Hard Skills:

  • Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Skills – Ability to apply candidates expert troubleshooting and optimization skills up and down the full stack, ensuring that critical. applications/services are engineered for scalability, availability & resiliency including graceful degradation of service, fault isolation and quick recovery to minimize customer impact.
  • Provide highly advanced technical expertise to maximize efficiency, reliability and value from current solutions, infrastructure, platforms and emerging technologies, showing technical leadership, and driving continuous improvement efforts.
  • Ability to identify root-cause issues, articulate corrective actions and improvement opportunities, and design approaches/programs/products to improve overall quality assurance.
  • Strong knowledge of Observability/Monitoring tools & their application (i.e., Glassbox, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Client, BigPanda AIOps, etc.).
  • Intermediate/expert level ability to use automation and configuration management tools for provisioning using Puppet, Ansible, Terraform, Chef, Jenkins, GitLab and Liquibase.
  • Functional knowledge of programming scripting such as JavaScript, PowerShell, Python, Bash, SQL, .NET, Java, PHP, Ruby, PERL, C++, R, etc.
  • Cloud Architect or Engineer Certification (i.e. GCP, Azure, AWS, etc.) – Preferably GCP ACE.

Soft Skills:

  • Collaborate well within a Global Platform Engineering Team being technically competent & confident but not arrogant.
  • Ability and willingness to quickly learn new technologies & tools and can effectively train candidates peers.
  • Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment.
  • Ability to communicate highly complex technical information clearly and articulately for all levels and audiences.

Job Expectations:

  • Flexibility to work in a 7x12 support environment, including weekends and holidays within a Team on-call engineer rotation schedule

Education

Any Graduate