Cloud Engineer

SS&C•Kansas City, MO

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

SS&C / Calastone is the largest global funds network, connecting the world’s leading financial organisations. Our mission is to reduce complexity, risk, and costs, enabling the industry to deliver greater value to investors. Over 4,500 clients in 56 countries and territories benefit from SS&C/Calastone’s services, processing over 250 billion of investment value each month. Calastone is headquartered in London and has offices in Luxembourg, Hong Kong, Taipei, Singapore, New York and Sydney. This role will bring in-depth knowledge and hands-on experience in public and private cloud infrastructure solution design, security, implementation, and delivery to enable and cultivate Calastone software engineering teams’ knowledge to ultimately enable them to take ownership of full cloud stacks. You will utilize infrastructure as code tooling to automate and template cloud services. Research, evaluate, test, and build cloud services in tandem with workstream requirements. Optimize and fine-tune cloud services for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. Implement and enforce security measures to protect cloud-based assets and data. Help develop a deeper knowledge of cloud technology within Calastone's technical teams. Follow best practices, focusing on quality, collaboration, mentorship, and continuous improvement. Create and maintain detailed documentation of architectures, configurations, and procedures.

Requirements

Kubernetes and Azure Experience are Required to Apply.
Full public and private cloud (Azure) infrastructure environments, including networking and routing design and implementation.
Security principles. implementation and practices across public and private cloud environments.
Kubernetes, container workload design, management, and optimization.
Working with software engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable, resilient, and performant solutions.
GitHub Actions.
Terraform.
Telemetry tooling (Datadog).
Scripting languages, such as Python, PowerShell, or Shell.

Nice To Haves

Adherence to industry standard cloud security and compliance
Financial services industry experience
Relevant certifications such Azure Solutions Architect
Configuration management systems (Ansible, packer)

Responsibilities

Utilise infrastructure as code tooling to automate and template cloud services.
Research, evaluate, test, and build cloud services in tandem with workstream requirements.
Optimize and fine-tune cloud services for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
Implement and enforce security measures to protect cloud-based assets and data.
Help develop a deeper knowledge of cloud technology within Calastone's technical teams.
Follow best practices, focusing on quality, collaboration, mentorship, and continuous improvement.
Create and maintain detailed documentation of architectures, configurations, and procedures.