DevOps Engineer [AQ-11383]

About the role

Aquent is partnering with a prominent financial services institution dedicated to empowering individuals and institutions through innovative technology solutions. This organization delivers robust and reliable platforms that underpin critical financial operations, impacting the economic well-being of millions. As a key member of a dynamic team, you will ensure the stability, performance, and scalability of critical enterprise applications, optimizing complex distributed systems and driving continuous improvement to enhance reliability and efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise-level system administration, monitoring, and deployment activities.
• Design, develop, and implement automation scripts to streamline operations and enhance system efficiency.
• Build and maintain application dashboards for proactive monitoring and configure alerts for early issue detection across various monitoring tools and platforms.
• Drive process improvements and adhere to SDLC best practices in all operational endeavors.
• Provide expert-level administration, troubleshooting, and tuning for both Linux and Windows operating systems.
• Ensure the stability and performance of large-scale distributed systems and high-availability architectures.
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize application performance and reliability.

Requirements

• 6-8 years of experience with enterprise-level administration and support.
• 6-8 years of experience in writing automation scripts, building application dashboards for proactive monitoring, and setting up alerts using various monitoring tools and platforms.
• 6-8 years of experience practicing SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) for process improvements.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise systems administration, monitoring, and deployment activities.
• Experience with Windows Server environments (2016, 2019, 2022) hosted via Virtual Machine.
• Strong knowledge of IP networking including DNS, DHCP, firewalls, and IP routing.
• Familiarity with large-scale distributed systems and high-availability architectures.
• Proficiency in Linux and Windows system administration, troubleshooting, and tuning.
• Development experience in one or more programming languages such as .Net, C#, Powershell, Yaml, Java, Python, or Bash.
• Knowledge of one or more relational and NoSQL databases.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.

Skills

• Strong customer orientation with an affinity to proactively own, communicate, and follow-through on projects and issues.
• Extreme sense of ownership to resolve problems in a distributed environment.
• Gritty resolve to dig deeper into technical issues in a complex, high-stakes environment.
• A self-starter with the ability and confidence to independently resolve issues and drive results.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Experience within the financial services industry.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies.

Benefits

Aquent Talent offers eligible talent access to amazing benefits, including:

• Subsidized health, vision, and dental plans.
• Paid sick leave.
• Retirement plans with a company match.
• Free online training through Aquent Gymnasium.