DevOps & Infrastructure Automation Engineer

Job Description:

Ness is seeking an Sr DevOps/Automation Engineer. This role will assist with building out an on-premises failover environment and onboarding of all critical Renaissance applications in clearing, settlement, and risk pillars.

Customer is required by regulators to demonstrate the ability to run all clearing and risk systems through internal datacenter ("On-Prem") and to be able to switch all production functionality running through On-Prem within the predefined SLA.

The newly developed clearing and risk systems takes advantage of scalability, ease of provision, and the reduced cost offered by cloud services (AWS) and the cloud offered Multi-Region as Disaster Recovery (DC) strategy.

Responsibilities:

• Setup CI/CD pipeline for application deployment
• Automation of SailPoint/SNOW using Python
• Work in the DevOps team to build new shared infrastructure services for on-premises failover environment: S3, Kafka, Data Store
• Work with different teams to establish connectivity between new failover shared services and existing shared services: Secret, identity, LDA, DNS, Artifactory, Jenkins, Splunk services
• Automate deployment DR strategy
• Automation of data replication between Cloud and failover environment required between all applications
• Continuously improve the processes and the DevOps team using thoughtful, calculated approaches to identify opportunities, and challenge those around you to strive for perfection
• Ideate solutions to complex technical challenges; code, test, troubleshoot, debug, and document the solutions you develop
• Use agile software development model to produce well-designed programs, scripts, and tools required to provision, configure, and monitor new shared infrastructure services for on-premises failover environment

Key Skills:

Must have:

• Deep expertise with Sailpoint/SNOW API and Python
• Deep expertise in automating certificate management using Python and corresponding libraries
• Experience managing helm charts and deploying into Kubernetes (k8s)
• Specializing in Cloud Infrastructure Modernization, virtualization, data center setup, DR & BC Strategies, and DevOps
• Experience in on-premises data center operations, AWS hosted data center and operations management

Good to Have:

• Knowledge of setting up CI/CD pipelines for streaming Flink based applications is an added advantage