Application Release Engineer

What are the top skills required for this role?

Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, GCP, Azure

Job Description

CI/CD Pipeline management building and maintain pipeline that automatically test and deploy code from development, optimized for heavy engine builds

Infrastructure as Code write scripts to automate server set up

Monitoring and logging setting up alters to monitor the stability of the environments

Security integration ensure security checks are built into the code deployment processes, implement automated security gates so no code reaches production without passing vulnerability scans

Hybrid Infrastructure - managing a mix of cloud instances and bare-metal servers; cloud instances across platforms like AWS, Azure and Google Cloud

Audit trail automation ensure every change to the infrastructure is logged and traceable. Build systems that can prove to a regulator exactly who changed what, and when

Network Orchestration configure software-defined networking to ensure the engine's wire protocols have prioritized bandwidth and low jiter

Resiliency and chaos engineering designing multi-region, multi-cloud disaster recovery strategies to ensure 99.9999% availability

Required Qualifications & Experience

Key Skills & Competencies:

University or post-graduate degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering

7+ years in infrastructure/ DevOps, with at least 3 years in a highly regulated industry

AWS certified DevOps engineer

Certified Cloud Security Professional or Certified DevSecOps Professional

Key Skills & Competencies

Containerization Docker, Kubernetes

CI/CD tool Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub

IaC & configuration Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Pulumi

Cloud providers Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure

Version Control -GitHub and Bitbucket

Scripting Python, Bash, Go or Ruby

Databases PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Oracle

Experience with Mainframe integration or legacy middleware

Strong problem-solving skills ability to navigate high pressure asks with transparency and clear communication on progress/ next steps

Highly adaptable working in a GSIB, managing high volume of asks with shifting priorities

Nice To Have

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Financial domain expertise familiarity with ISO 20022, SWIFT, Fed and Lynx

Experience using tools like CloudHealth or KubeCost to manage and optimize cloud spend Knowledge of eBPF for observability or DPDK for high-spped packet processing

Experiene with FPGAs or GPU-based computing clusters used for high-frequency data processing

Understanding how to minimize latency spikes in a distributed wire engine environment