Sr. Software/DevOps Engineer - Cloud Platform Experience

SS&C is a global provider of investment and financial services and software for the financial services and healthcare industries.

Named to Fortune 1000 list as top U.S. company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut and has 20,000+ employees in over 90 offices in 35 countries.

Some 18,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest institutions to local firms, manage and account for their investments using SS&C's products and services.

Job Description

Sr. Software / DevOps Engineer - Cloud Platform Experience

Job Description

The Cloud Platform Experience team is responsible for developing and operating our SS&C cloud portal, which provides teams the ability to self-service infrastructure (compute, network, storage) for their application needs.

We have a variety of front-end, back-end and operational work as we strive to provide full-service ownership for our applications and services.

You will be partnering with software and operations engineers to support a modern private cloud that can handle the requirements for a global company.

This position is open to remote work from within the US.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and deploy services supporting our enterprise cloud platform
• Mentor other software engineers around patterns and practices for highly available systems
• Integrate with CI / CD, Kubernetes, VMs, backend-services and managed-service offerings
• Build and maintain observability dashboards to monitor overall health of the ecosystem
• Build common components for reuse across the organization, maintaining documentation, demo applications and reviewing pull requests
• Work closely with our support team and user community to promote best practices for cloud adoption

Minimum Qualifications

• Engineering degree in a related technical discipline or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of development experience (Java, Go, Python or other languages)
• A solid foundation in object-oriented and cloud native design
• Experience in writing HTTP services in higher-level languages (e.g., Java / Spring, Go)
• Experience with relational and document databases (e.g., MySQL, MongoDB, etc.)
• Experience learning new open-source software, APIs and frameworks
• Exposure to automated testing, modern CI / CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform
• Familiar with bash, Git, JIRA and agile methodologies

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud infrastructure platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP, etc)
• Experience with container technologies and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Experience with devops practices and observability tools
• Experience working with and maintaining a community around open-source software
• Experience in performance analysis and tuning (application and database)
• Expertise in Java Spring Frameworks (e.g., Spring Boot, Spring JPA, Spring Security, etc)
• Understanding of basic networking concepts (e.g., load balancing, ACLs, DNS)
• Desire to evangelize Developer Culture and lead change within the organization
• Desire to mentor junior developers

Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.

SS&C offers excellent benefits including health, dental, 401k plan, tuition and professional development reimbursement plan.

SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.