The successful candidate will be part of Global Markets Engineering Team based in India.  This person will have at least 3 years’ experience in similar role within the financial services industry.  As such the successful applicant will need to possess a solid technical background, excellent inter-personal skills, and fine attention to detail, project management skills and a proven track record of success.  Duties will include;

• Working with the development community to take their new applications and turn it into a fully supported trading system.
• Participate in understanding SDLC and implementing Ansible Playbooks for deployment automation.
• Serve as a fully proficient technical resource; providing technical knowledge and capabilities as team member and individual contributor.
• Create solutions that will seamlessly integrate with adjunct technologies (i.e. SDLC’s CI/CD pipeline.)
• Create a Dev-Ops culture and automate all deployments using the latest industry leading technologies and processes
• Collaborate with internal and external subject matter experts, including line-of-business, business technology teams and operational support teams.
• Document requirements from subject matter experts and development teams to implement them in playbook format with minimal assistance.
• Adhere to, update, and/or create where necessary standards and internal controls and procedures.
• Work alongside the developers to ensure that their application adheres to the high standards expected.

Responsibilities:

• Validating application designs ensuring they meet or exceeds known requirements, make recommendations and implementing reliable and operable service architectures.
• Responsible for on-boarding in-house developed applications and associated hardware in accordance to well defined and well-established procedure.
• Work closely with development teams to onboard their applications to bank’s Horizon platform
• Automate CI/CD processes
• Identify inefficiencies and make recommendations for process improvements, playbook templates and cost reductions.
• Participate in knowledge sharing sessions.
• Define how the applications should be configured using the industry leading Dev-ops model
• Responsible for developing and maintaining tools to aide in the day-to-day application deployment and end-to-end process automation.

Required Skills:

• Experience of working in a highly pressurised trading environment.
• Strong Unix shell, Perl or python scripting skills
• Sound knowledge and experience around virtualizations, containers, OpenShift, Jenkins and other such technologies and processes
• Previous experience in a DevOps culture, especially in field of Deployment automation using Ansible.
• Experience in most aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Strong analytical and organizational skills, including attention to detail, and ability to determine effective course of action as required.
• Ability to thoroughly review, understand and interpret technology updates for applicability in the environment we support.
• Ability to interact effectively with all levels of stakeholders and leadership.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and respond under pressure.
• Bachelor (4-year) degree, with a technical major, such as computer science, computer engineering or 10 year’s relevant experience in lieu of degree.
  • Must have exceptional time management skills, be customer oriented and strong organizational and coordination skills.