Seeking a hands-on DevOps Engineerwho will lead the way for our client’s DevOps environment. The ideal engineerwill bring their experiences, best practices, and a collaborative attitude tohelp drive DevOps initiatives. To be successful, one must effectivelycommunicate with our trade support and operations team to orchestrate thecreation of solutions that can scale.
TradeSupport Duties:
- Provide technical and development support to internal and external clients and software vendors utilizing FIX (4.2/4.4) for e-trading, prices and STP in various financial products
- Build solutions to existing platforms based on client and business feedback
- Work with external software vendors that have integrated with our systems, or vice versa
- Co-ordinate the release of new applications and FIX configurations and enhancements with external clients
- Identify and manage any integration issues
- Provide 3rd level of support to production issues relating to FIX and Application Support
- Documenting procedures and training internal support teams
TechnicalScripting Duties:
- Implement automation, effective monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code
- Design and implement secure automation solutions for development, testing, and production environments
- Designing procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance
- Investigating and resolving technical issues by deploying updates / fixes.
- Build and test code continuously with scripting and programming languages
- Increase the sophistication of our alerting and escalation mechanisms
ProjectManagement Duties:
- Work collaboratively with multiple agile teams to help deliver end-to-end products and features, seeing them through from conception to delivery
- Develop and maintain solutions for operational administration, system/data backup, disaster recovery, and security/performance monitoring
- Continuously evaluate existing systems with industry standards, and make recommendations for improvement
- Sustain and improve the process of knowledge sharing throughout the trade support team
Skills:
- 3 years of professional experience as a DevOps / System Engineer
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- Proficiency in scripting languages including Bash, Perl, Python, and JavaScript
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- Excellent judgment, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills
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- Strong understanding of DNS, TCPDUMP, CDNS, SSL, Git, Firewalls and networking concepts
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- Understanding of system administration in Linux environments
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- Strong knowledge of configuration management tools
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- Strong communication and documentation skills
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- Self-motivated individual that possesses excellent time management and organizational skills
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- Strong experience working with automation tools and a drive towards automating repetitive tasks
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- Familiar with software security best practices
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- Understanding of monitoring tools
Education:
- Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field