DevOps Engineer

Octus is a leading global provider of credit intelligence, data, and analytics. Since 2013, tens of thousands of professionals across hedge fund, investment banking, management consulting, and law firm verticals rely on Octus to make better, faster, and more confident decisions in pace with the fast-moving credit markets.

About the company

Octus hires growth-minded innovators and trailblazers across the globe to drive our business and culture. Our core values – Action Oriented, Customer First Mindset, Effective Team Players, and Driven to Excel – define an organizational ethos that’s as high-performing as it is human.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the build, test, and deployment processes.
• Effectively prioritize workload with a constant focus on increasing developer efficiency.
• Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure to ensure scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness.
• Work closely with SRE to develop and maintain monitoring and alerting systems to ensure the health and performance of our systems and applications.
• Work closely with Security to implement and enforce security best practices across our infrastructure and applications.
• Collaborate with software developers to optimize application performance and reliability.
• Participate in the planning and execution of disaster recovery and business continuity strategies.
• Effectively communicate with stakeholders to provide updates on project statuses, issues, and recommendations.
• Participate in on-call rotation to provide system support.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in a DevOps role.
• At least 2+ years of experience with Terraform.
• Expert knowledge of cloud concepts and services (EC2, ECS, S3, RDS, A/ELB, EBS, VPC, Route53 or equivalent).
• Expert level knowledge of Linux.
• Strong scripting skills for automation and tooling.
• Ability to troubleshoot, diagnose, resolve, and document RCA of incidents.
• Good knowledge of database configuration, concepts, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
• Thorough understanding of Security principles and experience in designing, implementing, and monitoring proper controls.
• Extensive experience with Infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools (Terraform, SaltStack or equivalent).
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes, ECS including managing microservices architectures.
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions or equivalent.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Datadog, CloudWatch or equivalent.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Benefits

• Competitive health benefits.
• Matched 401k and pension plans.
• Paid time off (PTO).
• Generous parental leave.
• Gym subsidies.
• Educational reimbursements for career development.
• Recognition programs.

Pay

The salary range estimate for this position is $165,000 - $190,000. The actual compensation will be determined by factors including experience, skills, location, and business needs.