DevOps Engineer

What to Expect

Operations responsibility (Core):

• Deploy changes patches and releases in test and production environments.
• Prepare present test and execute changes in Production - requiring onsite presence3 days per week.
• Perform occasional Production changes outside business hours (once per month).
• Log investigate and resolve/escalate operational issues occurring in test and production systems.
• Ensure high availability data integrity and security through appropriate controls and validation.
• Participate in change planning and risk mitigation activities.
• Stay up to date on DevOps tools SRE practices modern deployment techniques and industry trends.
• Suggest improvements to increase efficiency quality and operational robustness.

Development responsibility:

• Work on an application distributed across multiple data centers built on microservices architecture with Apache Kafka for synchronous replication.
• Use proven technologies such as Java Apache Kafka Docker Kubernetes OpenShift to deliver 24/7 availability and resiliency.
• Develop test (including automated unit and integration tests) and support cloud-native applications following DevOps and DevSecOps best practices.

What Will Make You Successful

Relevant Experience

• Software Engineer: Minimum 2 years of relevant experience.
• Senior Software Engineer: Minimum 5 years of relevant experience.

Professional Skills

• Customer-oriented and quality mindset delivering true customer value is at the heart of what we do.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills vocal and proactive in discussions.
• Collaborative mindset embrace and enhance the squad way of working.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills and ability to execute complex workstreams independently with minimal supervision.
• Autonomous and adaptable comfortable with change and technical challenges.
• Fluent in English (spoken and written).

Technical Skills

• Strong handson experience with Linux systems (RedHat preferred).
• Experience with continuous delivery technologies:Jenkins Git Maven Jira Docker Kubernetes Kibana OpenShift Ansible ArgoCD.
• Experience with databases (Oracle H2) and data modelling.
• Understanding ofSSL/TLS HTTP/S XML (schema XSLT).
• Knowledge of distributed frameworks (Kafka Zookeeper).
• Comfortable collaborating with Java development teams (reading logs understanding stack traces deployment artifacts etc.).

Nice-to-Have (Bonus Skills)

• SWIFT Alliance products (Alliance Access Alliance Gateway Swiftnet Link) knowledge/experience.
• SWIFT messaging formats knowledge/experience.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures and running distributed systems.

What we offer

We give you the freedom to be yourself. We are creating an environment of unique individuals like you with different perspectives on the financial industry and the world. A diverse and inclusive environment in which everyones voice counts and where you can reach your full potential.

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Dont meet every single requirement At Swift we are dedicated to building a workplace where people can bring their full selves and ideas to the team so if you are excited about this role we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every single qualification.