Please find the position details below:
Job Title: Systems Engineer
Location: Merrimack NH (Hybrid)
Hybrid Schedule: 2 weeks onsite , 2 weeks remote
Duration: 12 Months Contract with possibility of extension or convert to permanent.
Interview: 2 rounds
Skills:
- 8+ years of experience in production support, systems and platform operations and technology
- Experience with On Prem and Public Cloud - AWS, EKS
- Scripting languages like Python
- Linux Administration and Cloud, DevOps experience would be a plus
Schedule:
- We're a 24x7 team and one weekend on-call shared by another person will be required
- When fully trained, the associate will need to do a rotation one week out of eight weeks and will work second shift, i.e., 1 PM EST -9:30 PM EST
- Holidays are spread out thru the team
- One out of every eight weeks, they will need to provide Friday night backup coverage for deployments
The Expertise you have
- 8+ years IT experience
- Proven technical background with high degree of comfort with Linux, Oracle databases, PostgreSQL databases, networking concepts, and ITSM-based methodologies
- Experience with batch scheduling software (e.g. Autosys/Control-M) and ETL processing
- Familiarity with event driven architecture (e.g. Apache Kafka)
- Extensive experience with Oracle, pgadmin and PL/SQL
- Experience with automated deployment tools & techniques (Concourse, Jenkins, Jenkinscore, Udeploy)
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Datadog and Sitescope
- Experience with advanced analytics and data visualization tool Spotfire
- You have a solid grasp of AWS. Certification is a plus.
- Experience with Kubernetes (EKS, AKS)
- Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java and Go
The Role
Provides outstanding support across a suite of applications used by large scale enterprise applications, databases, and technologies using Linux, Tomcat, SQL, HP Sitescope, Splunk, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud services as part of Enterprise Infrastructure & Operations team. Provides data availability, batch cycle, application health, incident triage, problem, release/change implementation, Cloud support, troubleshooting, and issue analysis management using Datadog, EKS, Autosys, Udeploy, Kafka, Rundeck, Ansible and DevOps tools. Serves as a domain expert, and crisis and communications manager for major system outages or business-critical issues. Ensures the integrity, stability, maintainability, and availability of business systems, applications, and infrastructure in production and non-production environments.
The Team
Our team works with other technology professionals to support Asset Management Technology (AMT) solutions for the Equity & High Income divisions. AMT is an integral part of Asset Management and is responsible for delivering innovative, scalable, industry-leading investment tools that enable to achieve a competitive advantage globally.
We work to assess and mitigate the business impact of production incidents every day. We analyze and solve application & batch issues. We work very closely with technology partners to implement code changes into production.
The Value You Deliver
- Supporting a portfolio of critical applications running in a sophisticated, globally distributed environment
- Coordinating the planning and successful execution of special events and projects
- Participating in an on-call rotation with other members of the team to provide outstanding support to our customers
- Assisting with the successful rollout of new products by coordinating the activities required for launch and ongoing support
- Advocating for production stability and supportability by working directly with engineering teams to find opportunities for improvements