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Senior Build DevOps Engineer

Locations: London, Essex | Hybrid

The Opportunity

We are seeking a Build DevOps engineer for our Chorus offering. You will be collaborating as part of a large build team based across multiple locations. The key responsibility is to assist with the hosting and technical deliveries to enable the enhancement and delivery of Chorus workflow-based development following Chorus Build standards. This role has obligations with a focus on Infrastructure build/maintenance and resilience. There will also be a focus on integration and AI automation to facilitate digital worker processing.

What You Will Get To Do:

DevOps Responsibility

• Design, implement, and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform to provision and manage cloud resources across multiple environments.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions for automating build, test, and deployment processes.
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to streamline workflows and improve efficiency.
• Monitor system performance and reliability, proactively identify and resolve issues to ensure uptime and availability.
• Implement security best practices and ensure compliance with industry standards.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in DevOps and cloud computing, and evaluate their potential impact on our infrastructure.

Release Management/Technical Responsibility

• Oversee parallel build for releases and client builds.
• Accountable for delivering solutions which support the business requirements, ensuring adherence to design and coding standards.
• Produce technical designs when required and review the technical designs produced by other staff, recommending improvements or alternative courses of action.  Ensure Build is not completed upon prescribed solutions.
• Act as a primary technical support resource within the Build team, providing a source of technical expertise.
• Advise on the acquisition of hardware/software and tools as relevant.
• Act as a point of reference for any technical-related area, including defect management.
• Lead Build/Test workshops. Working Agile, work closely together with the team to ensure all analysis and build meet requirements and departmental standards/best practice whilst ensuring standards are adhered to and optimisation opportunities are shared.
• Ensure that any documents related to the release build are aligned with the SDLC process.
• Responsible for Estimation (HLE)/Design to lead development on several projects within a release.
• Regularly communicate handover between the UK and BKK through the phone.
• Represent the Chorus Build Team within meetings and workshops within the Senior Management team and external client forums.
• Ensure the implementation and adherence to the SS&C Security Policy.
• Ownership of documentation and maintenance of support guides to describe program development, logic, coding and corrections.
• Liaise with internal SS&C users, developers, business analysts, IT change management and project management when required. 
• Ability to articulate technical solutions appropriately to the audience/recipient, whether Business or Technical focused.
• Approve design outlining steps required from inception to completion,n including analysis, review and development through to delivery. Perform quality reviews to ensure that the development output conforms to the required standards, providing feedback when necessary.

Project Management Responsibility               

• Consistently deliver Chorus deliverables to agreed schedules without compromising quality, including parallel projects.
• Support releases for large projects.
• Provide timely updates to the Senior Build Manager/Head of Build, reporting on team/individual progress.
• Liaise with relevant stakeholders to gather and understand client requirements, delivery schedules & assigned deliverables, including any changes to these. Analyse & promptly communicate required effort, achievability, dependencies & technical risks to the Senior Build Manager/Head of Build.
• Attend internal and external meetings representing Chorus, helping to formulate solutions for requirements.
• Regularly communicate progress on assignments against agreed schedules. Alert the Senior Management team well in advance where a deliverable is not achievable or a slippage is likely to occur, allowing sufficient time for a sensible course of action.
• Ensure that any documents related to the project build are provided.

What You Will Bring:

• Experienced in Cloud hosting: AWS, Private Cloud hosted infrastructure.
• Experience in automation pipelines: Experienced in Jenkins build automation and configuration. GitHub.
• Proficient with hosting automation tooling: Experienced in Terraform.
• Strong understanding of workflow automation: Chorus application Design, JavaScript coding.
• Solid scripting skills: Confident in Python, PowerShell, and Groovy.
• Proficient in Oracle Linux Database: Confident in root commands and table structures. Sql.
• Collaborative and proactive approach: you thrive in cross-functional teams and can solve problems that arise.
• Security-first mindset: Have awareness of Cyber considerations and promotion controls.
• Knowledge of Support methodologies: Keen understanding of Monitoring, Logging and observatory tooling, such as Grafana.

Why You Will Love It Here!

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model
• Your Future: Professional Development Reimbursement, including access to SS&C University
• Work/Life Balance: Competitive holiday scheme
• Your Wellbeing: Competitive benefits designed to support the well-being of our staff
• Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customised throughout your career

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.