Senior DevOps Engineer

Data Intellect•New York, NY

12d•Onsite

About The Position

Data Intellect is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer for a client engagement in New York, focused on building, improving, and supporting scalable cloud infrastructure. The role involves working in a highly technical environment where reliability, scalability, and performance are important, and collaborating closely with software development teams. The engineer will support production applications and services by building and improving AWS infrastructure, implementing and managing Kubernetes environments, and creating and upgrading Helm charts. The position also focuses on CI/CD automation, Infrastructure as Code, monitoring and logging, scripting, troubleshooting, and designing scalable architecture for large customer environments. The role supports incident management, root-cause analysis, disaster recovery, and ongoing improvement of performance, reliability, security, and cloud cost efficiency. Data Intellect is a data and technology consultancy specializing in financial and capital markets technology solutions, with expertise also applied to industries including smart energy and healthcare. The company is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion, and accommodations are available during the assessment and selection process. Applicants must have US work authorization without requiring visa sponsorship and must be based in or commutable to New York, with openness to working in the office up to five days per week.

Requirements

At least 5 years of DevOps or infrastructure engineering experience in production environments.
Strong hands-on experience with AWS.
Excellent knowledge of Linux administration.
Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
Hands-on experience with Terraform and Ansible.
Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines.
Strong scripting skills using Bash and/or Python.
Good understanding of cloud networking, routing, and troubleshooting.
Experience working with web services such as NGINX, Apache, and Tomcat.
Strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to diagnose complex production issues.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly.
Must have the right to work in the US; visa sponsorship is not available.
Must be based in or commutable to New York and open to working in the office up to five days a week.

Nice To Haves

GitLab CI/CD experience.
Experience with Helm and managing Kubernetes deployments at scale.
Experience with logging and monitoring platforms.
Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases.
Experience implementing DevSecOps practices.
Cloud cost optimization and performance engineering experience.
Experience designing infrastructure for PaaS or enterprise customer environments.
Previous experience within financial services or capital markets.

Responsibilities

Build, improve, and extend AWS infrastructure supporting production applications and services.
Implement and manage Kubernetes environments and create and upgrade Helm charts.
Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, automating build, testing, and deployment processes.
Use Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform and Ansible, to create consistent and repeatable environments.
Improve monitoring and logging to help teams identify issues and optimize application and infrastructure performance.
Automate infrastructure and operational processes using Bash and Python.
Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, networking, database, and production issues.
Work closely with software engineers to improve development and deployment processes.
Help design scalable architecture for large customer environments.
Identify opportunities to improve performance, reliability, security, and cloud cost efficiency.
Support incident management, root-cause analysis, disaster recovery, and continuous improvement.