Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps EngineerChicago, IL, Dallas, TX OR Jersey City, NJ Hybrid – onsite 2-3 days per week, WFH 2-3 days per weekPosition Summary:This role is open with a financial services company. This company is currently engaged in building out cutting-edge clearing, settlement, and risk systems. These systems will be natively running on public cloud and on an on-premises data center. To support migration of cloud-based solution to on-premises data center, the teams will be building a Kubernetes-based virtual environment. The work will be divided across core platform engineering and DevOps teams. We are looking for a DevOps lead that will help develop the necessary echo system (Jenkins-based CI/CD, Helm charts, terraforms, ansible, monitoring, etc.) that will be required to migrate public cloud-native Risk Framework (there are over dozen different products within Risk Framework) to an on-prem production environment.Responsibilities:This person should be conversant with various cloud (specifically AWS) technologies to help us in developing equivalent services using cloud neutral vendor products.Should have proven experience in running project with few DevOps engineers.Actively participates and lead requirement analysis and reviews to identify missing or incomplete requirements.Follows agreed upon SDLC procedures to ensure that all information system products and services meet both explicit and implicit quality standards, end-user functional requirements, architectural standards, performance requirements, audit requirements, security rules are upheld, and external facing reporting is properly represented.Assists Production Support by providing advice on system functionality and fixes as requiredCommunicates in a clear and concise manner all time delays or defects in the software immediately to appropriate team members and managementAssist with departmental and new employee trainingRequirements:8+ years of experience developing IT solutionsAt least 3 years of DevOps/Site Reliability Engineering experienceExperience with Kubernetes/EKSFamiliarity with the following DevOps tools preferred: Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Maven/Gradle, Nexus/Artifactory and/or CI/CD pipelineExperience with cloud technologies and migrations, preferably with AWSSome understanding of/exposure to JavaNice to have:Experience migrating cloud-based solutions to/from on-premises data centersPrevious experience with fintech development or financial servicesExperience with AWS foundational services: VPCs, Security groups, EC2, RDS, S3 ACLs, KMS, AWS CLI, IAM, etc.Experience with distributed message brokers: Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Amazon Kinesis, etc.Experience with high-speed distributed computing frameworks: AWS EMR, Hadoop, HDFS, S3, MapReduce, Apache Spark, Apache Hive, Kafka Streams, etc.AWS Certified Solutions Architect or OCP Java SE 8 Programmer Certification is a plus