Expert DevOps Engineer

At Finastra, we are a dynamic global provider of open finance software solutions, dedicated to expanding access to financial services. Our innovative applications span Lending, Payments, Treasury and Capital Markets, and Universal Banking. Proudly serving over 8,000 customers, including 45 of the world's top 50 banks, we aim to boost financial inclusion for all. Join us and be part of a vibrant company that embraces diverse perspectives, and is committed to doing well by doing good.

What will the Role contribute?

A subject matter expert who demonstrates a passion for technology and help, Universal Banking to modernize the Cloud platform for Retail banking and integrated products using Azure, Azure DevOps, Containers, Kubernetes, and Service Mesh. The focus for the Could Operations team is to leverage modern cloud tech stack, improve monitoring and logging libraries for Modernized cloud solutions, improve developer efficiency, and improve continuous integration and deployments. This role will not only build toolsets that are required to build, deploy, and operate our applications in Cloud, AKS and Service Mesh infrastructure, but also mentor young members of the team to grow as technologists. This role will be responsible for designing and managing DevOps infrastructure services at scale. This position will work on bringing technical evangelism and improving DevOps discipline. He/She will be the catalyst of the DevOps team working alongside the Engineering Platform to build enterprise grade solutions.

Responsibilities & Deliverables:

• Designing and managing highly scalable, reliable and fault tolerant CI/CD Pipeline infrastructure & networking that forms the backbone of SaaS Based Retail Banking Solution at Finastra.

• Improve overall Monitoring and security posture of infrastructure/application by implementing protective measures, efficiently in tandem with better ROI and TCO.

• Work along with the Dev Engineering teams to help with Application / Infrastructure / Network automation and long-term business needs.

• Research and evaluate parallel products available, define & govern application/ infrastructure baselines

• Communicate, collaborate and work effectively across distributed teams in a global environment.

• Operate to strengthen teams across their product with their knowledge base.

• Research and implement toolsets that help developers use Containers, Kubernetes and Service Mesh

• Develop tools for developers, operations and release teams to use Kubernetes and Service Mesh with ease

• Ensure Platform Security and Monitoring using tools like Prometheus/Grafana etc and implement Monitoring and Security best practices

• Have a passion for delivering zero-defect and highly resilient code and be responsible for ensuring the team's deliverables exceed the prescribed availability and defect SLA

• Present technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms

• Groom user stories into detailed development tasks

• Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner

Required Experience:

• Should have at least 8 to 10 years of hands-on experience on SaaS / IaaS. Hands-on experience with DevOps techniques building continuous integration solutions

  using Ansible, Bash, Docker, Git, Maven

• Experience with Load Balancing, Rate Limiting, Traffic Shaping and managing connectivity between Applications and Networks.

• Deep knowledge of Linux as a production environment. Strong Understanding of Container technologies. e.g. Docker, Infrastructure As Code such as Terraform, K8s administration at large scale.

• Strong understanding of cluster orchestrators and schedulers (Kubernetes, Mesos etc)

• Excellent bash, and scripting fundamentals and strong hands on with scripting in programming languages such as Spring, Python, Java, Ruby, etc.

• Good understanding of distributed system fundamentals and ability to troubleshoot issues in a larger distributed Application infrastructure

• Excellent understanding of interactive application development paradigm, memory management, performance/resource optimizations, database interactions, network programming, concurrency and multithreading, fault tolerance, monitoring, security and

  operability of systems.

• Working knowledge on Oracle, DB2, PostgreSQL or Mongo DB databases.

• Have worked on production distributed systems and strong understanding of microservices architecture, RESTful services, CI/CD.

• Must have Prior experience with at least one Cloud Service provider – Azure AKS, AWS EKS, GCP GKE, OpenShift, Rancher etc.

• Experience implementing Kubernetes controllers/operators.

• Strong Docker experience

• Operational experience deploying and managing Kubernetes

• CKA or CKAD certification.

• AZ400 (Good to Have)

We are proud to offer a range of incentives to our employees worldwide. These benefits are available to everyone, regardless of grade, and reflect the values we uphold:

·       Flexibility: Enjoy unlimited vacation, based on your location and business priorities. Hybrid working arrangements, and inclusive policies such as paid time off for voting, bereavement, and sick leave.

·       Well-being: Access Confidential one-on-one therapy through our Employee Assistance Program, find support from our network of Wellbeing Champions and Gather Groups, and a calendar of monthly events and initiatives designed to help you thrive - Inside and Outside of work.

·       Medical, life & disability insurance, retirement plan, lifestyle and other benefits*

·       ESG: Benefit from paid time off for volunteering and donation matching.

·       DEI: Participate in multiple DE&I groups for open involvement (e.g., Count Me In, , , , ).

·       Career Development: Access online learning and accredited courses through our Skills & Career Navigator tool.

·       Recognition: Be part of our global recognition program, Finastra Celebrates, and contribute to regular employee surveys to help shape Finastra and foster a culture where everyone is engaged and empowered to perform at their best.

*Specific benefits may vary by location.

At Finastra, each individual is unique, bringing their own ideas, thoughts, cultural beliefs, backgrounds, and experiences together. We learn from one another, embrace and celebrate our differences, and create an environment where everyone feels safe to be themselves.

Be unique, be exceptional, and help us make a difference at Finastra