A leading global investment management firm is assembling a new specialized team of engineers, quantitative developers and data scientists to offer tactical delivery capabilities to its portfolio managers. The team works jointly with portfolio managers, trading and operations. The culture of the team is entrepreneurial, where work/life balance; ownership and excellence are highly valued.

Responsibilities

Lead the strategic agenda regarding patterns, stacks and best practices for rapid prototyping and tactical delivery of solutions

Work jointly with portfolio managers capturing requirements, monitoring delivery and managing expectations

Partner with the development team to design and optimize a robust CI/CD pipeline. Ensuring system stability and uptime for all tools and application under this team’s management. This includes application and infrastructure monitoring, troubleshooting and user support

Build strong relationships with development and end-users/clients with a focus on client service and delivery and fostering the DevOps culture

Proactively identify areas of improvement and be able to accurately assess business risk to help prioritize remediation

Design and implement new solutions with the goal of allowing the team to be able to release code into production more often and making every team more efficient

Staying abreast of industry trends, new platforms and tools, and coming up with a business case to adopt new technologies

Fit into the active culture of Millennium, judged by the ability to deliver timely solutions to portfolio managers within the firm

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree (or higher) in a science related subject

6+ years of professional experience with exposure to Application Development, DevOps, Support and System Administration

Strong coding skills in Python and/or Bash/Powershell is required

Extensive background in building highly automated DevOps infrastructure

Experience with configuration and automation tools, such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, or Salt is a plus

Extensive knowledge of (but not limited to) the following tools: Confluence, JIRA, GitHub, Jenkins, TeamCity, Artifactory, Octopus Deploy, ElasticSearch, OpsGenie, and DataDog

Establishment and implementation of availability monitoring and performance management infrastructure

Experience designing, deploying and operating solutions in public cloud is desirable (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical problems to various audiences