DevOps / Production Support Engineer (Level 3)

Client : Mizuho Bank

Rate: 68.37 C2C to sbase

candidates experience must be in between 5-8 years

This DevOps role is mostly working w/ traders and developers to deploy software for production ( Banking and Financial Exp is a must have)

Location is New York City 2-3 days/week (1271 Avenue of the Americas) local candidates only

Visa : USC/GC Only

Key skills: Linux (RH8), Trading Floor Experience (Fixed Income) , Azure, Python, Java Logs, Tidal, software packaging/deployment

Overview:

In this role, you will interact directly with IT functions to primarily operate and enhance capabilities of the existing trading systems leveraging modern technologies and data & software architectures.

Required years of experience: 3 to 7 years of experience

Required skills:

• Methodical approach to problem solving and incident management
• Able to define and document operational procedures and runbooks
• Familiarity with release packaging and deployment: rundeck, ansible, etc.
• Understanding of SDLC and Agile frameworks.
• Familiar with Linux: command line, standard file editing/searching/manipulation, shell scripting, etc.
• Good communication skills, able to: express concerns/risks, document and communicate corrective and preventative action plans to stakeholders, etc.

Typical assignments

• Implementing pre-release and post-deployment verifications
• Integrating with Rundeck or Azure DevOps for application deployment
• Implementing application control solutions (start/stop scripts)
• Integrating with monitoring solutions (OpsRamp, Grafana, Splunk, etc.)
• Supporting annual DR/BCP testing requirements
• Provisioning and setup of new servers
• Supporting user authentication and authorization processes and workflows
• Configuring authentication, Service Accounts, etc.

Nice to Have:

• Working knowledge of relational databases and SQL: understanding of tables, views, indexes; how to query and modify data; query performance/optimization
• Working experience with job automation tools such as Tidal, Autosys, Control-M, etc.