SRE/DevOps Engineer

A financial firm is looking for an SRE/DevOps Engineer to join their team in New York, NY.

Compensation: $150-200k

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform and CloudFormation
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab for seamless code deployment and integration
• Collaborate with blockchain engineers to ensure optimal performance and security of the distributed ledger technology (DLT)
• Monitor system performance using Grafana, Prometheus, and Datadog, and proactively address system issues
• Ensure high availability and reliability of the application across the end-to-end tech stacks

Qualifications

• A Bachelor's Degree 
• 8 years of experience in DevOps, TechOps, or SRE, including at least 5 years working with AWS
• Strong desire to experience microservices in a production environment, particularly with Docker and Kubernetes
• Strong Linux OS-level, command-line and scripting knowledge (e.g., Bash, Python), and configuration management principles
• Applicants should have a working knowledge of databases such as MongoDB, Postgres, and DynamoDB
• Experience in architecting, implementing, and managing monitoring tools such as Prometheus/Grafana, CloudWatch, Splunk, Datadog, NewRelic, and ELK in the cloud
• Experience with compute provisioning on Cloud-based platforms using Terraform and/or CloudFormation
• Exceptional analytical skills, able to apply knowledge and experience in decision-making to arrive at creative and commercial solutions
• Experience in building a Microservice-based architecture
• Able to design and implement complex, but easily managed, automated infrastructure
• AWS certifications are a plus
• Experience developing or integrating with blockchain applications is preferred