Senior DevOps Engineer

Overview

We believe that the future of financial advice is personal, scientific and beautiful – these three ideals drive everything that we do. Advisor Engine technology creates a unified experience across financial advisors, clients, and business management personnel. We have delivered a wealth management platform that enables financial advisors to deliver an engaging personalized client experience to drive growth and operate at scale through smart automation.

We have completed four acquisitions and raised over $62 million in investor capital to support future growth. Our team includes designers, enterprise technologists, data scientists, futurists, and business builders. We are based in Tribeca, New York. If you are driven to create the future of financial advice, we’d love to hear from you.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Participate in a Hybrid work schedule that includes working from our Raleigh Office 3 days a week.
• Manage highly scalable and available distributed systems on cloud-based platforms.
• Automate everything - write automation and configuration management code to build scalable, reliable and secure systems.
• Identify key system metrics and ensure adequate monitoring coverage for new and existing services.
• Build monitoring, supervision and resiliency mechanisms to observe, react to, and maintain platform health and performance.
• Manage deployments, upgrades and configurations in a controlled, pre-production and production environment with tight operating perimeters.
• Be part of a Dev Ops team with rotating after hours on-call support (24/7/365).
• Verify the functionality of components and services and ensure deployments meet expectations; design, create, and document test plans, possibly code a custom test automation framework.
• Work on complex, major or highly visible tasks in support of multiple projects that require multiple areas of expertise.
• Plan and execute ongoing routine application maintenance tasks, such as production support, and troubleshooting existing information systems; identify errors and deficiencies as well as develop long and short-term solutions. Keep up-to-date with security patches and proactively address security vulnerabilities and compliance.
• Analyze a variety of approaches to larger Dev Ops issues – provide pros and cons of different approaches to the team to arrive at an agreed upon direction.
• Gather and understand business requirements with a focus on business outcomes.
• Prepare and present formal training to IT staff, as needed.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Strong Windows skills with respect to operations, and troubleshooting.
• Experience operating, tuning, and troubleshooting SQL Server and Postgres in Production as well as database design, backup, and restoration.
• Operational experience with Kubernetes, Docker and Hashi Corp products in Production.
• Strong demonstrated experience in Python, Java, or Shell Scripting.
• Expert experience with operations and Dev Ops in AWS.
• Expert experience with automation/configuration management using Ansible, Terraform, Chef, or Puppet; CI/CD tools, such as Jenkins, Artifactory, GIT, etc.
• The ability to project, manage or act as project lead and provide subject matter expertise and technical direction for certain subjects.
• Strong experience with APM tools such as New Relic or App Dynamics, as well as Log Analysis and Monitoring tools such as Splunk, Cloud Watch, Dynatrace, Nagios, Sys Dig, Site
  24x7, etc.
• BS or MS in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Experience in network security (DNS, VPN/VPC, IDS/IPS, Subnets/Security Groups/Network ACLs) and technologies supporting compliance (HA/DR, Identity Management, Key Management, WAF and others).

NICE TO HAVE:

• Experience with Cloud Network Design (AWS, Azure or GCP).
• Experience with Fortigate, Citrix Netscaler or other firewalling and Load Balancing Products.
• Experience with Kubernetes Clusters optimization and security management.
• Experience managing VPN solutions incorporating 2FA.
• Understanding of security best practices for banking procedures (ideally PCI or SOC knowledge)
• Experience with JIRA

• Mid-Senior level

• Full-time

• Engineering and Information Technology