Senior DevOps Engineer - 1872 Consulting : Job Details

Senior DevOps EngineerChicago, IL, Dallas, TX OR Jersey City, NJHybrid – onsite 2-3 days per week, WFH 2-3 days per weekPosition Summary:This role is open with a financial services company engaged in building cutting-edge clearing, settlement, and risk systems. These systems will run natively on public cloud and on an on-premises data center. To support the migration of cloud-based solutions to the on-premises data center, teams will build a Kubernetes-based virtual environment. The work will be divided across core platform engineering and DevOps teams. We are looking for a DevOps lead to help develop the necessary ecosystem (Jenkins-based CI/CD, Helm charts, Terraform, Ansible, monitoring, etc.) required to migrate public cloud-native Risk Framework (over a dozen different products within Risk Framework) to an on-prem production environment.Responsibilities:

• Be conversant with various cloud (specifically AWS) technologies to develop equivalent services using cloud-neutral vendor products.
• Proven experience in running projects with a few DevOps engineers.
• Actively participate and lead requirement analysis and reviews to identify missing or incomplete requirements.
• Follow agreed-upon SDLC procedures to ensure that all information system products and services meet quality standards, end-user functional requirements, architectural standards, performance requirements, audit requirements, security rules, and external-facing reporting.
• Assist Production Support by providing advice on system functionality and fixes as required.
• Communicate clearly and concisely about time delays or defects in the software 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 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.

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