DevOps Engineer

ABOUT US

Were the worlds leading provider of secure financial messaging services headquartered in Belgium. We are the way the world moves value across borders through cities and overseas. No other organisation can address the scale precision pace and trust that this demands and were proud to support the global economy.

Were unique too. We were established to find a better way for the global financial community to move value a reliable safe and secure approach that the community can trust completely. Were always striving to be better and are constantly evolving in an ever-changing landscape without undermining that trust. Five decades on our vibrant community reflects the complexity and diversity of the financial ecosystem. We innovate diligently test exhaustively then implement a connected and exciting era our mission has never been more relevant. Swift now has a presence in 200 countries and legal territories to serve a community of more than 12000 banks and financial institutions.

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.

Collaboration:

• Collaborate with various stakeholders across different functions including product owners product managers business analysts architects and operations.
• For senior profiles provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers.

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.).