Senior DevOps Engineer

SS&C Technologies; Basildon; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000

Job description

As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Job Description

SS&C GIDS – Senior DevOps Engineer

About SS&C Technologies

SS&C is a global provider of investment, financial services and software for the financial services and healthcare industries. Named to Fortune 1000 list as top U.S. company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut and has 20,000+ employees in over 90 offices in 35 countries. Some 18,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest institutions to local firms, manage and account for their investments using SS&C's products and services.

SS&C GIDS EMEA

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 “maximize 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 how to 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 utilizing AWS Cloud services along with third-party tooling to complement this offering.

• EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, Cloudfront, WAF, API Gateway, Lambda, 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/Engineer related Bachelor’s degree; or Master’s degree; or 5 years of equivalent work-related experience
• Three years or more industry experience
• 1+ years’ AWS experience (in a business environment).
• 3+ years’ experience in a DevOps role.
• 2+ years’ experience of 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, YAML files.
• Knowledge in Python, Java, awk, sed, Ansible, Salt Stack, Terraform.
• Experience working in a financially regulated environment.
• Working with clients / working in a client servicing environment

EEO Statement / Non-agency Disclosure

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.

Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.

SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.