Sr DevOps Engineer

SS&C is a global provider of investment and 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.

Job Description

Get To Know The Team : SS&C is a global provider of investment and 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.

The SS&C GIDS US Support team is looking for an Engineer to join our global 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. Why You Will Love It Here!

• Flexibility : Hybrid Work Model & a Business Casual Dress Code, including jeans
• Your Future : 401k Matching Program, Professional Development Reimbursement
• Work / Life Balance : Flexible Personal / Vacation Time Off, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays
• Your Wellbeing : Medical, Dental, Vision, Employee Assistance Program, Parental Leave
• Diversity & Inclusion : Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
• Training : Hands-On, Team-Customized, including SS&C University
• Extra Perks : Discounts on fitness clubs, travel and more!

What You Will Get To Do :

• Automate the end-to-end process from application build to application deployment, including all aspects of the continuous integration and continuous delivery process.
• Liaises between operations and software engineering teams to enable them to rapidly build, deploy, and operate various systems & infrastructure components.

Installs, creates, and enhances automation tools that support the coding lifecycle.

Utilizes full stack development skills to enable them to fully understand all aspects of the application architecture.

Works closely with the agile software engineering teams for incremental product deployments and handles all deployments to the test and production environments.

• 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.
• Work directly with application Support team to provide support standards and guidelines.
• 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.

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.

• AWS - EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, Cloudfront, WAF, API Gateway, Lamdba, Elasticache, Elasticsearch, SQS, SNS, EKS
• Kubernetes.
• 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)

What You Will Bring :

• Career level professional leading small, moderately complex projects or working on complex tasks that require a high degree of judgement, resourcefulness, and self-initiative.
• Demonstrate specialized expertise to evaluate wide-ranging and complex issues and develop creative solutions. Recommends new procedures.
• Minimally requires a Master's degree and 1 years of related experience, Bachelor's degree and 3 years of related experience, or high school degree and 5 years of related experience.
• Three years or more industry experience
• 1+ years' AWS experience (in a business environment).
• 1+ years' experience in a DevOps role.
• 1+ years' experience of operating a production platform.
• 1+ 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.
• Preferred technology experience :
• 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, and 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.
• Strong understanding of SRE guidelines and methodologies.

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 offers excellent benefits including health, dental, 401k plan, tuition and professional development reimbursement plan.

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.