Senior DevOps Engineer

About the Role
Our Team
Technology drives our business. Our team is made up of talented software engineers, infrastructure engineers, leaders, and UX professionals. We care about technology as a craft and a differentiator. We bring our global products to market with a mix of software, cloud, data centers, infrastructure, design, and grit.
The Role
As a Senior Software Engineer, DevOps, you will be responsible for the automation, performance, efficiency, and scaling of applications and infrastructures. You are a highly creative and intellectually curious engineer instrumental in enabling teams to contribute to infrastructure as code and embrace modern development practices. You must be able to work independently and collaborate across multiple teams to accomplish organizational goals. You will play an integral part in advancing Morningstar's engineering and operational excellence spearheading modern CI/CD best practices.
Job Responsibilities
1. Learn existing deployment and application stacks to provide continuous improvements and AWS account migration strategies.
2. Work in a diverse technical environment to establish and champion CI/CD patterns.
3. Use operational tools and monitoring platforms to gain in-depth knowledge, understanding, and ongoing monitoring of system availability, performance, and capacity.
4. Work with business partners to establish Service Level Indicators and Objectives (SLIs and SLOs)
5.Write and execute build and deployment scripts. Set up and maintain software development tools spanning source control, continuous integration/delivery, testing, code review, etc.
6. Implement alerting strategy that makes alerts actionable, unique, and meaningful.
7. Remain current on emerging technologies and motivate and push the 'pipeline first' mentality
Qualifications
Strong understanding of AWS related tools and technologies.
Deep knowledge of build, release, and configuration management practices.
Strong, demonstrable knowledge of source control tools (e.g. Git, CodeCommit, etc.) and branching strategies.
Proficiency in build/release tools (Jenkins, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, etc.)
Knowledge of container orchestration using EKS, Fargate, ECS.
Strong, demonstrable understanding of Configuration Management (Chef, Puppet, Ansible).
Experience programming in one or more popular languages such as Python, Java, C#, JavaScript, Ruby, PowerShell, etc.
Strong knowledge of monitoring strategies and tools. Preferably New Relic.
Good Knowledge of Windows and Linux operating systems.
About Us
DBRS Morningstar is a global credit ratings business, currently with 700 employees in eight offices globally. Formed through the July 2019 acquisition of DBRS by Morningstar, Inc., the ratings business is the fourth-largest provider of credit ratings in the world.
DBRS Morningstar is committed to empowering investor success, serving the market through leading-edge technology and raising the bar for the industry. DBRS Morningstar is a market leader in Canada, the U.S. and Europe in multiple asset classes.
DBRS Morningstar rates more than 2,600 issuers and 54,000 securities worldwide and is driven to bringing more clarity, diversity of opinion, and responsiveness to the ratings process. DBRS Morningstar's approach and size provide the agility to respond to customers' needs, while being large enough to provide the necessary expertise and resources.
If you received and accept an offer from us, we require that personal and any related investments be disclosed confidentiality to our Compliance team (days vary by region). These investments will be reviewed to ensure they meet Code of Ethics requirements. If any conflicts of interest are identified, then you will be required to liquidate those holdings immediately. In addition, dependent on your department and location of work certain employee accounts must be held with an approved broker (for example all, U.S. employee accounts). If this applies and your account(s) are not with an approved broker, you will be required to move your holdings to an approved broker.