AWS DevOps Engineer

As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue SS&C is headquartered in Windsor Connecticut and has 27000 employees in 35 countries. Some 20000 financial services and healthcare organizations from the worlds largest companies to small and mid-market firms rely on SS&C for expertise scale and technology.

Job Description

Our 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 maximise product flow in a financially regulated environment. You will ensure our teams 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 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 utilising AWS Cloud services along with third-party tooling to complement this offering.

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

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. Its 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.