Operations & Monitoring Engineer (Cloud team)

Our company is a partner of well-known banks and exchanges on different continents, for example, Bloomberg, Itiviti, Optiver, Credit Suisse, Instinet, Tudor Funds.

Once our partners trade, they need the historical data for different asset prices and transaction cost analysis metrics. Without it their trading oriented departments simply wouldn’t function. That is why delivering market data to them on time is a crucial and utmost important function.

And here is where our Cloud Operation department jumps in. We are supporting data delivery lifecycle from our vendors (New York Stock Exchange, Intercontinental Exchange, etc.) to our Customers and corresponding infrastructure behind it. Our instances are located in AWS and data centers in New York and New Jersey (we are planning to migrate to AWS completely and then to move into multi-cloud concept direction). We are looking for a Middle or Senior level colleague, who will help us to continuously provide excellent Customer experience.

Our stack:

• AWS (some of the services we use are: EFS, EC2, SGW, ASG, NLB, etc.);
• OneTick (time-series database language, which is specific to the financial area);
• Terraform and Ansible (our DevOps group is helping us to embed CI/CD approach);
• Python and Perl (Perl is related to the legacy part of the project, which will be gradually moved to Python);
• also we are going to use Kubernetes in order to reduce our costs and have more flexible infrastructure in the mid-term.

Our team and processes:

• 4 technical team members in Yerevan, 4 technical team members (including 2 DevOps) in Saint-Petersburg, management in Saint-Petersburg;
• We are using Jira & Confluence, processes are based on the Scrum approach.

Your responsibilities would be:

• Ensuring on a daily basis, that the data delivery cycle is functioning from end to end both on-premises and in AWS, supporting all company branches in their data availability requests.
• Monitoring the alerts and daily jobs and helping to eliminate the issues timely and proactively.
• Setting up, configuring and maintaining environments for Cloud Customers using OneTick and Terraform (the latter is optional).
• Helping with troubleshooting in case of connectivity issues in our environments.
• Improving the existing framework of data loading and processing scripts.
• Working with AWS.
• Collaboration with different teams across the company, Customers and data vendors.

Our requirements are:

• Experience more than 2 years.
• Linux system administrator Experience
• Experience of working with network tools and protocols.
• Experience with Bash or Python/Perl (preferably, Python).
• English - Intermediate or higher (speaking).
• Attentiveness, hard-working and goal-oriented mindset (to have the tasks done), opportunity to work both in team and independently, readiness to learn OneTick.

We have great benefits:

• Opportunity to learn AWS and Terraform with the mentoring of our DevOps group.
• Opportunity to become a financial data expert (our colleagues work with Wall Street and for Wall Street for a long time).
• 31 Days Holidays.
• Flexible working hours.
• Medical insurance for employees and their families.
• Travel insurance.
• English classes.
• Regular performance reviews.
• Lunch benefit.
• We work remotely.