Lead Systems Engineer

Experience level: Mid Level: 5-10 yrs exp.

Experience required: 8 Years

Education level: Bachelor’s degree

Job function: Information Technology

Industry: Financial Services

Relocation assistance: No

Visa : Only US citizens and Greencard holders

Job Description:

• The Lead Systems Engineer on the Enterprise Production Services (EPS) Automation team is responsible for providing technical expertise developing automation solutions across IT including Cloud and On-Prem.
• The Lead Engineer will be acting as a hands-on technical lead for the team’s initiatives, and be expected to contribute to architectural designs, perform code reviews and actively develop software as needed.
• This role supports key project driven initiatives, as well as operational tasks to maintain the integrity of infrastructure footprint

Responsibilities:

• Experience and ability to implement solution using automation technologies and tools from requirements to deliver business value.
• Experience in developing automation solutions and capabilities for infrastructure services to increase operational efficiencies.
• Ability to design automation workflow for complex manual processes.
• Work closely with automation platform architects and infrastructure teams to develop solutions and integrations to other key systems within the automation platform.
• Contributes to and supports the corporate adoption of the DevOps methodology and Agile project management.
• Maintain stability of the automation environment including scheduling and execution of system maintenance, release updates, upgrades, and/or new technology deployments.
• Contribute towards continual service improvement activities related to the administration of cloud services.
• Experience working in disaster recovery activities for both cloud and on-prem footprint.
• Basic knowledge about Machine learning techniques and models (Decision Tree, Time Series analysis)
• Aligns risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 5 years of related experience
• Expertise in Software development using Python or Java or equivalent expertise in infrastructure automation
• Hands on experience designing and building solutions utilizing AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, KMS, Lambda, IAM, Kinesis, ECS.
• In-depth hands-on experience with Cloud methodologies (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), automation, orchestration.
• Experience managing and working with configuration management tools (Chef, Ansible)
• Knowledge of source code and revision control systems, along with CI/CD tools like Git and Jenkins
• Basic experience with any modeling software like (R, Gunicorn)
• Knowledge of one or more scripting languages like JavaScript, PHP, Bash, Perl for automation

MUST HAVES FOR THIS POSITION:

Python or JAVA
Agile
Designing and Building solutions utilizing AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, KMS, Lambda, IAM, Kinesis, ECS.
Cloud methodologies (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), automation, orchestration
Configuration Management tools (Chef, Ansible)
Source Code and Revision Control Systems, along with CI/CD tools like Git and Jenkins
Scripting languages like JavaScript, PHP, Bash, Perl for automation

NICE TO HAVES FOR THIS POSITION:

Knowledge about Machine learning techniques and models (Decision Tree, Time Series analysis)
Basic experience with any modeling software like (R, Gunicorn)

Job Category: IT

Job Type: Full Time

Job Location: Dallas