MAIN DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE ROLE:

• Deep understanding of core AWS cloud services including networking, storage solutions, load balancing, containers, messaging, serverless architectures, and monitoring/logging.
• Deploying and supporting production Kubernetes(EKS) clusters through their growth
• Strong knowledge of Linux-based systems (RHEL/Debian-based)
• Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure leveraging Terraform
• Growing our configuration management codebase with Ansible
• Experience triaging Production issues in either a financial or Internet-facing deployments
• Collaborating cross-functionally with development, trading teams, and other internal stakeholders to understand custom requirements and translate custom solutions into infrastructure solutions.
• Maintains and strives for a high level of quality and best practices, but understands when to make pragmatic, good-enough decisions.

SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES (e. g. shifts, travel overseas, hours):

• Some weekend and on-call work will also be necessary
• Overseas travel may be required on occasion for team gatherings

PERSON SPECIFICATION

WORK EXPERIENCE/BACKGROUND:

• Track record of successful end-to-end project delivery from conception to production deployment.
• Experience collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams including developers, business stakeholders, and senior management.
• Triaging production issues under pressure
• Proven experience delivering robust, highly available platforms for financial trading or major internet-facing applications.
• Worked in hybrid environments (AWS and on prem infrastructure)
• Experience of working in a financial background

TECHNICAL SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

• A great understanding of most of the core AWS services.
• Building and using containers in production
• Understands the core concepts around how a applications communicate when using service meshes
• Strong skills in automation, configuration management, and infrastructure as code.
• Great written and oral communication skills.
• Strong with both Cloud and On-prem infrastructure (physical servers, BIOS, RAID arrays, NICs)
• Understanding the feature sets of the newer AWS services
• A security-mindset with a sane balance of wide-open vs overly conservative

COMPETENCIES/OTHER REQUIREMENTS:

Self-propelled individual that can work under their own initiative with minimal supervision

Take ownership of issues and follow through with them until resolution

Teamwork and interpersonal skills

A willingness to learn and keep up to date with technologies