DevOps Engineer [AQ-12975]

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 essential enterprise applications. Your expertise will optimize complex distributed systems, drive continuous improvement, and enhance the reliability and efficiency of services vital to millions of users. You will champion best practices in system administration, proactive monitoring, and automation, ensuring seamless operations and rapid issue resolution.

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 for early determination of issues 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.
• 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 bring results back to the team.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

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

Benefits

Eligible talent get access to amazing benefits including:

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