Cloud Services DevOps Engineer
We are looking for an experienced DevOps (Development and Operations) professional to join our growing engineering team in New York. Your work will be visible to all the Tier 1 banks and other major financial institutions and in some cases, even deployed in their environments.
As a Cloud Services/DevOps Engineer you will:
- Own the administration and growth of our AWS environment
- Help us architect and evaluate Multi-tenant, Single-Tenant, and On-Prem API offerings
- Champion automation and quality documentation for all our backend services
- Teach us new strategies to scale both our operations and current workflows
We’re looking for colleagues with:
- Deep experience in Infrastructure as Code practices and tools (Terraform and Ansible or similar technologies like Puppet, Chef, SaltStack)
- Ability to write maintainable code in Javascript/Python/Go/Java as well as Bash
- Willingness to pick up other languages as needed
- Strong Linux, operating systems, and networking fundamentals and understanding of the OSI model
- Fundamental understanding of and experience working with Distributed Systems
- Experience in layered monitoring tools (network, machine, kernel, service, ..)
- Previous experience participating in On-Call Support rotations for production and internal issues
- Ability and willingness to write clear technical documentation and communicate with all stakeholders
- Ability to multitask, prioritize, and manage time efficiently and independently
- Excitement to engage in independent research
- Willingness to keep up with the latest industry trends
Bonus points if you have experience in:
- Docker Orchestration Technologies like Kubernetes, ECS, Nomad
- AWS Best Practices for Security and Elastic Compute Architecture
- AWS technologies: ECS, ALB, RDS (Postgres), Elasticache, Cloudfront, S3, Lambda
- Scaling and managing Kafka and Elasticsearch clusters in a production environment
- JVM debugging
- Active Directory Best Practices
- CentOS 7
- Datadog
- Financial or fintech applications
About OpenFin
Move Fast. Break Nothing. OpenFin is the financial industry’s operating system, enabling rapid and secure deployment, native experience and desktop interoperability. Used by the largest industry players through to the newest of FinTech innovators, OpenFin deploys more than 1,000 desktop applications to more than 1500 buy-side and sell-side firms. OpenFin investors include Bain Capital Ventures, Barclays, DRW Venture Capital, NEX Euclid Opportunities, J.P. Morgan, NYCA Partners, Pivot Investment Partners and Wells Fargo among others. The company has offices in New York and London.
OpenFin is an engineering-forward company, with software developers making up 75% of the team. To see what they’ve been up to, check out OpenFin on LinkedIn or take a look at their Blog.
Why Work Here?
OpenFin’s product, engineering, and customer success teams lead the financial industry in talent and innovation. Together they design, develop, and deploy the next generation of financial desktop applications. OpenFin’s mission is to stay on the cutting edge of JavaScript and to enable customers to do the same. OpenFin offers:
- Experienced, dedicated, and hands-on managers
- A highly collaborative development process that values both team players and independent learners
- Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Health and Commuter FSAs
- 401(k) and Equity Options
- Free Annual CitiBike Membership
- Generous PTO policy
- Stocked kitchen and beer on tap
- Team lunches, events, and happy hours
- Annual Offsite