DevOps Engineer

Aquent is partnering with a prominent financial services institution dedicated to empowering individuals and institutions through innovative technology solutions. This organization is at the forefront of delivering robust and reliable platforms that underpin critical financial operations, making a significant impact on the economic well-being of millions.

Are you a seasoned Site Reliability Engineer with a passion for building resilient, high-performing systems? We are seeking a highly experienced and dedicated individual to join a dynamic team that ensures the stability, performance, and scalability of critical enterprise applications. This is an incredible opportunity to make a tangible impact, leveraging your expertise to optimize complex distributed systems and drive continuous improvement in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment. Your contributions will directly enhance the reliability and efficiency of services that are vital to our operations.

As a key member of the team, you will be instrumental in maintaining the integrity and performance of enterprise-level systems. You will champion best practices in system administration, proactive monitoring, and automation, ensuring seamless operations and rapid issue resolution. This role demands a gritty resolve to delve deep into technical challenges, an extreme sense of ownership, and a strong customer orientation to proactively manage and communicate project and issue statuses. You will be a self-starter, independently resolving complex issues and driving results, while contributing to a culture of continuous learning and operational excellence. Your expertise will directly influence the uptime and reliability of essential services, making a significant difference to our users and the overall business.

Key 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.

Required Qualifications

• 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.

About Aquent Talent

Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world's biggest brands. Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We're about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.

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