About the Role:
Grade Level (for internal use):
10 The Team: The Ratings Site Reliability Engineering team (SRE) is made up of highly talented engineers and operations personnel. The current team is composed of highly skilled engineers with solid development background who build and manage tier-0 platforms in AWS cloud environments. In their role, they will play a pivotal part in shaping the platform architecture and engineering. Their additional tasks include, exploring new innovative tools that benefit the organization needs, developing services and tools around the Cloud platform, establishing standards, automation, creating reference implementations, and providing support for application integrations on need basis.

The Impact: SRE is the foundational technology support team for the Ratings businesses. Focusing on application stability, availability, reliability, compliance, and governance help us provide the best possible client experience while upholding regulatory requirements. We help teams navigate new technologies and requirements and take them from conceptual idea to fully operationalized solutions.

What's in it for you: S&P Global is an employee friendly company with various benefits and with primary focus on skill development. The technology division has a wide variety of yearly goals that help the employee train and certify in niche technologies. Employee can aspire to grow in various roles in their career.

Responsibilities: Engineers in this role are expected to participate fully in the planning and implementation in a broad range of technical areas within cloud infrastructure. You are required to be well versed with AWS cloud related tools and also be able to work with Audit

• Ensure stability, availability, reliability, compliance, and governance for Ratings cloud platform; troubleshoot and support with scrum teams when required.
• Guide the operationalization of Cloud Platform and applications.
• Apply technical solutions that can solve business problems and support overall Ratings objectives.
• Develop new opportunities for automation and infrastructure usage; enhance and mature existing in regards to security, cost, repeatability, etc.
• Support container environments (K8s), containerization of existing applications and feature upgrades for container platforms.
• Address problem tickets, providing permanent solutions to longstanding issues.
• Exploratory work with Azure and other cloud providers. Learning new products, staying on top of cloud services.
• As part of a global team of Engineers, deliver highly reliable technology Cloud services. Build systems that detect, assess, and mitigate risk across the global infrastructure and accountable for keeping the Amazon Infrastructure compliant with high standard engineering principles.
• Strong focus on developing robust cloud solutions meeting high-engineering standards.
• Build and maintain security of applications/platforms for growing business needs.
• Design and build future state cloud architecture to support new use cases.
• Work with/support users to understand issues, develop root cause analysis and work with the SRE teams for the development/implementation of security enhancements/fixes.
• Strong focus towards developing permanent fixes to issues and heavy automation of manual tasks.
• Provide technical guidance to team members.
• Works on analyzing/researching alternative solutions, developing/implementing recommendations accordingly.
• Perform engineering solutions and contribute towards the following and other areas as needed: Platform, Cloud and Network reliability/engineering.
• Configuring and administering AWS Shield (managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service)
• Configuring and administering AWS Control Tower, WAF (Web Application Firewalls), KMS (Key Management Service), Secrets Manager, Certificate Manager, etc.

What We're Looking For:
Technical Skills

• Candidates must have 5 or more years of current direct demonstrated cloud engineering experience, expertise, and in-depth knowledge; specifically, supporting AWS-based systems.
• Strong background in automation. Jenkins, ADO, Ansible, Terraform, Python, and/or shell scripting.
• Strong understanding of AWS. VPC and networking concepts, IAM usage and policies, security best practices, interfacing with API.
• Experience designing and architecting solutions. Applying best practices to meet RPO/RTO while being cost effective and secure. Understanding non-functional requirements.
• Experience with Kubernetes / containerized deployments.
• Strong background with Linux based operating systems.
• Expertise in technical and business environment, experience with cloud, to include: Linux, Microservices, Maven, Lambda, Active Directory, LDAP, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Amazon Inspector, Grafana, GuardDuty, Config, KMS, AWS Macie

Soft Skills

• Knack for problem solving and collaborating with others to validate hypotheses and implement solutions.
• Willingness to learn and mature existing platforms; not everything will be cutting edge from day 1.
• Experience with agile workflows and methodology.
• Self-motivated; able to perform duties without high levels of oversight.

Education: Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience in AWS Cloud.

About S&P Global Ratings
At S&P Global Ratings, our analyst-driven credit ratings, research, and sustainable finance opinions provide critical insights that are essential to translating complexity into clarity so market participants can uncover opportunities and make decisions with conviction. By bringing transparency to the market through high-quality independent opinions on creditworthiness, we enable growth across a wide variety of organizations, including businesses, governments, and institutions.
S&P Global Ratings is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the world's foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world's leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today.

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What's In It For You?

Our Purpose:
Progress is not a self-starter. It requires a catalyst to be set in motion. Information, imagination, people, technology-the right combination can unlock possibility and change the world.

Our world is in transition and getting more complex by the day. We push past expected observations and seek out new levels of understanding so that we can help companies, governments and individuals make an impact on tomorrow. At S&P Global we transform data into Essential Intelligence , pinpointing risks and opening possibilities. We Accelerate Progress.

Our People:
We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide-so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.

From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We're committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. We're constantly seeking new solutions that have progress in mind. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.

Our Values:

Integrity, Discovery, Partnership

At S&P Global, we focus on Powering Global Markets. Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.

Benefits:
We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That's why we provide everything you-and your career-need to thrive at S&P Global.

Our benefits include:

• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
• Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.
• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.
• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.
• Family Friendly Perks: It's not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.
• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards-small perks can make a big difference.

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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at S&P Global:
At S&P Global, we believe diversity fuels creative insights, equity unlocks opportunity, and inclusion drives growth and innovation - Powering Global Markets. Our commitment centers on our global workforce, ensuring that our people are empowered to bring their whole selves to work. It doesn't stop there, we strive to better reflect and serve the communities in which we live and work, and advocate for greater opportunity for all.

S&P Global has a Securities Disclosure and Trading Policy ("the Policy") that seeks to mitigate conflicts of interest by monitoring and placing restrictions on personal securities holding and trading. The Policy is designed to promote compliance with global regulations. In some Divisions, pursuant to the Policy's requirements, candidates at S&P Global may be asked to disclose securities holdings. Some roles may include a trading prohibition and remediation of positions when there is an effective or potential conflict of interest. Employment at S&P Global is contingent upon compliance with the Policy.
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Equal Opportunity Employer
S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.

If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to: and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.

US Candidates Only: The EEO is the Law Poster describes discrimination protections under federal law.

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20 - Professional (EEO-2 Job Categories-United States of America), IFTECH202.1 - Middle Professional Tier I (EEO Job Group)

Job ID: 297538
Posted On: 2024-04-20
Location: New York, New York, United States