Senior System Engineer/DevOps

Senior System Engineer/DevOps

Project description

Our client is a global financial market data provider managing multiple change programs aimed at delivering high-quality software to connect financial markets worldwide through a real-time, high-frequency, low-latency data management system. These projects are technically demanding and operate in a highly engaging environment.

We seek a System Engineer / DevOps Engineer to contribute to the analysis, definition, design, construction, testing, installation, and modification of medium to large-scale infrastructures. This role focuses on Linux-based engineering, automation, and virtualization solutions that support real-time development environments.

Responsibilities

• Participates in project planning sessions with clients, business analysts, and team members to analyze
• requirements and provides design recommendations for complex systems.
• Works with project teams to define and design the scope for each project.
• Works closely with planning and technology architects to assure all systems are in line with IT longterm strategy.
• Provides design recommendations, develops application and custom integration solutions including
• major enhancements and interfaces.
• Makes complex modifications to existing software applications in accordance with high-level
• specifications and industry standards.
• Reviews effort to ensure compliance to application architecture standards.
• Develops new cross-functional software systems using disciplined software development processes.
• Carries out unit testing and implements cross-functional systems ensuring the system meets the
• needs of clients and businesses.
• Researches new and emerging technologies.
• Provides technical leadership, coaching, and mentoring to application development teams.
• Utilizes and stays current on multiple programming languages and software technologies.
• Performs and tests firmware/OS upgrades, troubleshoots system issues, and arranges hardware
• replacements/upgrades for various platforms including HPE Synergy.

Skills

• Must have

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, and/or related field or equivalent work experience

• Good communication skills

• Able to work in a challenging, fast-paced environment with little daily supervision

• 5+ years' experience as a Linux, Windows, VMWare, and Solace systems engineer or equivalent DevOps role in an enterprise environment

• IT lab administrator experience for maintaining test environment health

• Expert-level understanding of , Linux RHEL 7.x and 8.0, MS Windows server 2008

• 2019, Vsphere v6.x and 7.0, Solace PubSub+ and associated software

• Good knowledge of Windows and Linux-based hardware platforms (e.g., IBM, HP, Dell)

• Thorough understanding of the following knowledge areas: RAID storage, TCP/IP networking

• Nice to have

• Experience with OS Deployment tools, Orchestration tools

• Experience with automation pipelines, scripts, and change processes

• Experience with HPE enterprise-class hardware (DL360 Gen9, Gen10), HPE c7000 blade chassis and Synergy frames hardware, Dell R6xx rackmoount servers, SAN design and usage, VMWare ESXi Server

• (vSphere) and Virtual Center (v6.x and 7.x), AWS EC2 images and Containers, Cloud Watch, Kubernetes, Route53 and/or Azure/GCP equivalent

• Active Directory design and administration.

• Effectively presents information for discussion with higher levels of the organization.

• Advanced knowledge of Windows and Linux-based hardware platforms (e.g., IBM, HP, Dell).

• Advanced knowledge of Windows and Linux-based scripting facilities.

• Perl, C, PHP, VBScript, or Python development skills desired.

• Experience with automation and orchestration specifically using RunDeck and HPE OneView/Image Streamer/Composer.

• Languages

• English: B2 Upper Intermediate

• Seniority

• Senior