Senior DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineering

Job Description

The Senior DevOps Engineer is responsible for management and evolution of state-of-the-art systems for Arrowstreet Capital. The Senior DevOps Engineer will work within an energetic team to drive automation via Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and help design cloud-native applications. The ideal candidate will be highly motivated, self-driven and team-oriented. The placed candidate will be surrounded by individuals who are committed to helping each other grow both personally and professionally. The role presents an ideal opportunity for a technologist looking to work on the latest technology, make a significant impact to the organization and deal with vast amounts of data.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy and maintain scalable, highly available, secure, and fault tolerant systems on AWS.
• With Infrastructure as Code in mind, work towards refining or writing CI/CD pipelines for complete automation (including testing)
• Revise and/or propose solutions for continuous improvements in cloud cost management, health checks, security, monitoring and control.
• Assist teams with troubleshooting different layers of cloud-native applications

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, systems analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience in configuring and tuning cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure), with AWS preferred.
• 3+ years of experience in building resilient CI/CD pipelines, strong knowledge of Git, and familiarity with a DevOps platform like GitLab, Jenkins or Bitbucket.
• 3+ years of experience in container technologies like Docker, Kubernetes.
• Demonstrated competency with at least 3 of the AWS services: EKS (or Kubernetes), Aurora PostgreSQL, Elasticache Redis (or Redis), OpenSearch (or ELK) boto3 (Cloudformation or terraform), DynamoDB (or MongoDB), AWS Glue (or EMR)
• 5+ years of experience with at least one of the programming languages - python, dotnet (C#)
• Deep understanding of the Linux operating system and networking concepts.
• Familiarity with tools like New Relic, Prometheus, Cloudwatch, Cloudtrail, IAM resource and role policies.

Preferred Requirements

• AWS Certifications.
• Writing cloud-native applications using - AWS SAM (or serverless), Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB

We maintain a friendly, team-oriented environment and place a high value on professionalism, attitude and initiative.