Sr. DevOps Engineer (Capital Markets, Financial Services Industry)

Unable to do any sponsorship  Working directly with applicants; please no 3rd parties. No Consultting companies.

* Must have right to work in US as we cannot offer visa sponsorship for this role.
Must be New York based or commutable and open to working up to 5 days a week in NYC.

Responsibilities :
We’re looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer in New York City, working on a customer engagement focused on building, improving and supporting scalable cloud infrastructure.
As a Senior DevOps Engineer , you’ll work within a highly technical environment where reliability, scalability and performance matter. You’ll:

• Build, improve and extend AWS infrastructure supporting production applications and services.
• Implement and manage Kubernetes environments and create and upgrade Helm charts.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, automating build, testing and deployment processes.
• Use Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform and Ansible, to create consistent and repeatable environments.
• Improve monitoring and logging, helping teams identify issues and optimise application and infrastructure performance.
• Automate infrastructure and operational processes using Bash and Python.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, networking, database and production issues.
• Work closely with software engineers to improve development and deployment processes.
• Help design scalable architecture for large customer environments.
• Identify opportunities to improve performance, reliability, security and cloud cost efficiency.
• Support incident management, root-cause analysis, disaster recovery and continuous improvement.

What You Bring:

• 5+ years' DevOps / infrastructure engineering experience in production environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS.
• Excellent knowledge of Linux administration.
• Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform and Ansible.
• Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines; GitLab CI/CD experience is particularly useful.
• Strong scripting skills using Bash and/or Python.
• Good understanding of cloud networking, routing and troubleshooting.
• Experience working with web services such as NGINX, Apache and Tomcat.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to diagnose complex production issues.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly.

Big Plus if you have:

• Experience with Helm and managing Kubernetes deployments at scale.
• Experience with logging and monitoring platforms.
• Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience implementing DevSecOps practices.
• Cloud cost optimization and performance engineering experience.
• Experience designing infrastructure for PaaS or enterprise customer environments.
• Previous experience within financial services or capital markets.

* Must have right to work in US as we cannot offer visa sponsorship for this role.
Must be New York based or commutable and open to working up to 5 days a week in NYC.