Systems Engineer II
Who We Are
Addepar is a global technology and data company that helps investment professionals provide the most informed, precise guidance for their clients. Hundreds of thousands of users have trusted Addepar to empower smarter investment decisions and better advice over the last decade. With client presence in more than 40 countries, Addepar’s platform aggregates portfolio, market and client data for over $5 trillion in assets. Addepar’s open platform integrates with more than 100 software, data and services partners to deliver a complete solution for a wide range of firms and use cases. Addepar embraces a global flexible workforce model with offices in Silicon Valley, New York City, Salt Lake City, Chicago, London, Dublin, Edinburgh, Scotland and Pune, India.
*Marketplace and brokerage services provided by Acervus Securities, Inc., an SEC registered broker‑dealer and member FINRA / SIPC.
The Role
As Addepar's Systems Engineer - FinOps engineer you will help analyze cloud Infrastructure, track and project cloud spending. Detect unnecessary cost spend, and identify cost savings and cost avoidance strategies making full use of AWS tools and other 3rd party tools. We’re looking for a teammate with excellent problem-solving skills who is a consensus builder, an excellent teammate, and works well within a fast-paced global enterprise support environment and play a key role in crafting and implementing Addepar's cloud-based platform infrastructure solutions, ensuring platform uptime, and responding to key business and technical needs across the platform.
Addepar takes a market-based approach to pay. A successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on the role, job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target base salary for roles in Colorado, California, and New York.
The current range for this role is $76,000 - $119,000 (base salary) + bonus + equity + benefits.
Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. Additionally, these ranges reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits.
What You’ll Do
- Support Addepar's production infrastructure in real time to ensure uptime and customer satisfaction.
- Investigate, Elaborate and Present budget forecasts for our AWS cloud Infrastructure
- Maintain / Improve existing tooling and automation to assist on Cost Optimization and Reporting
- Provide visibility over the usage of AWS Accounts and other vendor budgets at different levels, including top management.
- Provide short and long-term technical solutions.
- Coordinate various teams to identify and eliminate wasteful or unnecessary costs.
- Provide subject matter expertise to Core Platform Operation team to accurately cost implementations and help make cost efficient architectural choices based on AWS cost management capabilities and pricing models.
Who You Are
- Experience 5+ years in Infrastructure as Systems Engineer
- 4+ years in FinOps or Cloud Cost Management
- 5+ years experience running a large scale production environment including real time support and on-call responsibilities.
- 1-3 years experience in configuring one or more monitoring/observability tools like: Splunk/SumoLogic, Prometheus+Grafana, Cloudwatch
- Sophisticated knowledge of public cloud concepts and infrastructures (AWS)
- Experience in cost offset detection, rightsizing, tagging and automation
- Incident management experience
- Experience with Linux/UNIX administration.
- Proven experience with IaC solutions including Terraform, Salt, and Ansible.
- Solid Linux sysadmin skills including troubleshooting, issue resolution, and day to day operations.
- Experience troubleshooting AWS issues with base services such as EC2, S3, RDS and networking.
Our Values
- Act Like an Owner - Think and operate with intention, purpose and care. Own outcomes.
- Build Together - Collaborate to unlock the best solutions. Deliver lasting value.
- Champion Our Clients - Exceed client expectations. Our clients’ success is our success.
- Drive Innovation - Be bold and unconstrained in problem solving. Transform the industry.
- Embrace Learning - Engage our community to broaden our perspective. Bring a growth mindset.
In addition to our core values, Addepar is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We seek to bring together diverse ideas, experiences, skill sets, perspectives, backgrounds and identities to drive innovative solutions. We commit to promoting a welcoming environment where inclusion and belonging are held as a shared responsibility.
To ensure the health and safety of all Addepeeps and our prospective candidates, we have instituted a virtual interview and onboarding experience.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
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