Job Description
Our Global Investor and Distribution Solutions (GIDS) is the business unit offering this role. GIDS delivers global omni-channel investor servicing, including contact centre, using digital services.
About the Role
The SS&C Strategic Platform Services team is looking for an Engineer to join our DevOps delivery team and “maximise product flow” in a financially regulated environment. You will ensure our team’s ongoing success by translating the strategy and designs of the wider teams into reality, by automating the implementation of the underlying infrastructure (and its support) and application code.
As a key member of the team, you will help drive the direction of our shared services platform, particularly the technologies supporting it, and enable the developers to focus on delivering great product features to our clients.
Your Responsibilities
* Staying up to date with industry best practices and innovation.
* Work with our team of product owners, architects, and developers to support project work and to update and release to QA/Production with software releases, configuration updates, and other release requirements.
* Dive deep and identify failure patterns to resolve problems at their root.
* Provide high-performance cloud deployment solutions and maintain rapid deployment pipelines, server monitoring, and troubleshooting.
* Identify and implement best practices for securing various platforms.
* Work directly with the DevOps team to test system integrity.
* Design and implement build, deployment, and configuration management.
* Build and test automation tools for infrastructure provisioning.
* Monitor metrics and develop ways to improve.
* Provide technical guidance and educate team members and co-workers on development and operations.
* Build, maintain and monitor configuration standards.
* Maintain day-to-day management and administration of projects.
* Manage our Continuous Deployment pipeline.
* Document and design various processes; update existing processes.
Technologies:
Our range of products hosted on our platform is a mix of Java Spring Boot and Microsoft .NET, fully automated from Development to Production, utilising AWS Cloud services along with third-party tooling to complement this offering.
* EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, Cloudfront, WAF, API Gateway, Lamdba, Elasticache, Elasticsearch, SQS, SNS, EKS
* * CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub, Python)
* Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Packer, Hashicorp Vault).
* Messaging / Data Streaming (Kafka, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ)
* Monitoring (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Alertmanager).
* Security applications (Qualys, FireEye, Sophos)
Your Experience:
* Computer Science/Engineering related Bachelor’s degree, or Master’s degree, or 5 years of equivalent work-related experience
* Three years or more of industry experience
* 1+ years’ AWS experience (in a business environment).
* 3+ years’ experience in a DevOps role.
* 2+ years’ experience in operating a production platform.
* 2+ years’ experience in Kubernetes.
* Solid understanding of Linux, Windows and Networking layers.
* Working in an agile environment.
* A passion for continuous learning, as well as the ability to learn quickly and apply new skills.
Desirable:
* Solid understanding of microservices development.
* SQL and NoSQL databases working set.
* Familiar with or able to quickly learn Apache NiFi, Apache Airflow, Apache Kafka, KeyCloak, Serverless Computing, GraphQL, APIs, APIM.
* Good skills working with JSON, XML, and YAML files.
* Knowledge in Python, Java, awk, sed, Ansible, Salt Stack, and Terraform.
* Experience working in a financially regulated environment.
* Working with clients / working in a client servicing environment
We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups, to enable us to bring a diversity of perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.