DevOps Engineer

Aquent is partnering with a leading financial institution, a trailblazer in its industry, dedicated to innovation and excellence. This organization is at the forefront of leveraging technology to deliver cutting-edge solutions that impact millions of users daily. Joining their team means becoming a critical part of an environment where your expertise directly contributes to the stability, performance, and scalability of essential systems that power a complex trading ecosystem.

About the Role: Drive Reliability and Innovation as a DevOps Engineer

We are seeking a highly experienced and dedicated DevOps Engineer to join our client's dynamic engineering team. In this pivotal role, you will be instrumental in ensuring the seamless operation and continuous improvement of critical enterprise systems. You will leverage your deep expertise in system administration, automation, and monitoring to build resilient infrastructure, streamline deployment processes, and proactively identify and resolve complex technical challenges. Your work will directly enhance system reliability, accelerate development cycles, and contribute to the overall success and efficiency of high-stakes financial operations.

What You'll Do:

• Lead enterprise-level administration and support, ensuring optimal performance and availability of critical systems.
• Design, develop, and implement robust automation scripts to enhance operational efficiency and reduce manual effort.
• Build and maintain advanced application dashboards and alerts using tools like Grafana, Influx, Datadog, Moog, and ThousandEyes for proactive monitoring and rapid issue detection.
• Drive continuous improvement in SDLC practices, contributing to more efficient and reliable software delivery.
• Perform hands-on enterprise systems administration, monitoring, and deployment activities across diverse environments.
• Provide expert-level system administration, troubleshooting, and tuning for both Linux and Windows operating systems.
• Develop and maintain code in various programming languages, including .Net, C#, Powershell, Yaml, Java, Python, and Bash, to support automation and system enhancements.
• Contribute to the design and maintenance of high-availability architectures and large-scale distributed systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve complex technical issues and implement strategic solutions in a fast-paced trading environment.

Must-Have Qualifications:

• 6-8 years of experience in enterprise-level administration and support.
• 6-8 years of experience in writing automation scripts and building proactive monitoring and alerting solutions using platforms such as Grafana, Influx, Datadog, Moog, and ThousandEyes.
• 6-8 years of experience practicing and improving SDLC processes.
• Extensive hands-on experience with enterprise systems administration, monitoring, and deployment.
• Proficiency with Windows Server operating systems (2016, 2019, 2022) hosted via Virtual Machine.
• Solid understanding of IP networking concepts, including DNS, DHCP, firewalls, and IP routing.
• Familiarity with large-scale distributed systems and high-availability architectures.
• Strong Linux and Windows system administration, troubleshooting, and tuning skills.
• Development experience in one or more of the following programming languages: .Net, C#, Powershell, Yaml, Java, Python, Bash.
• Knowledge of one or more database technologies: SQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Postgres.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications:

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

Personal Attributes:

• A strong customer orientation, with a proactive approach to owning, communicating, and following through on projects and issues.
• An extreme sense of ownership, driven to resolve problems effectively in a distributed environment.
• A gritty resolve to delve deep into technical issues within a complex trading ecosystem.
• A self-starter with the ability and confidence to independently resolve issues and deliver impactful results to the team.