Senior Specialist - IT Systems Engineering

MMC Corporate•Dallas, TX

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

Marsh & McLennan Shared Services LLC is seeking candidates for the Senior Specialist - IT Systems Engineering position. This role involves designing, building, and optimizing automation systems, managing the DevOps roadmap, and maintaining a rapidly evolving cloud infrastructure. The position requires building and maintaining IT systems to support customer services, analyzing the current technology stack, and suggesting/implementing improvements. Collaboration with cross-functional teams to drive DevOps initiatives, setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (including for Confluent Cloud Kafka using terraform), and ensuring the quality and velocity of application deployments are key responsibilities. The role also includes supporting, maintaining, and deploying builds for React, Node, and Ruby applications, managing multiple AWS accounts with company-wide policies and access, and implementing/maintaining monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions. Identifying and solving performance issues using DataDog, implementing security best practices with sysdig, SonarQube, and synk tools, and researching/implementing new technologies to enhance productivity, reliability, and security are also part of the role. Additionally, the position emphasizes knowledge sharing, documentation, and mentoring other engineers.

Requirements

Requires a Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field.
Ten (10) years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or in a related occupation.
Ten (10) years of experience must include: Building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure for digital applications using CI/CD platforms including GitHub, Bitbucket, and Jenkins.
Ten (10) years of experience must include: Creating custom GitHub Actions using YAML workflows and securely maintaining Secrets and Environment Variables without exposing them in the code.
Ten (10) years of experience must include: Managing and deploying various serverless, Database, compute, Networking components within the AWS ecosystem using CloudFormation templates or Terraform.
Ten (10) years of experience must include: Managing and automating pipeline triggers for onboarding applications and integrating security checks using scanning tools including Sysdig and SonarQube.
Ten (10) years of experience must include: Applying patches, updates, or configuration changes to remediate vulnerabilities in code.
Ten (10) years of experience must include: Architecting, Designing, Deploying and maintaining Confluent Kafka at an organizational level.
Ten (10) years of experience must include: Implementing and managing Kafka Connectors to integrate Kafka with external systems including relational databases, MongoDB, and components in using Amazon cloud.
Ten (10) years of experience must include: Developing interactive, user-friendly web portals to serve as entry point for various SaaS or PaaS systems, using modern JavaScript frameworks.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and optimize automation systems and manage the DevOps roadmap to help grow and maintain the rapidly evolving cloud infrastructure.
Build and maintain IT systems to support new and existing services for customers.
Analyze current technology stack, suggest and implement improvements.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive DevOps initiatives.
Set up and maintain CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes environments.
Set up and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Confluent Cloud Kafka using terraform.
Maintain quality and velocity of application deployments.
Support, maintain, and deploy builds for React, Node, and Ruby applications.
Manage multiple AWS accounts and set up company-wide policies and access.
Implement, maintain, and improve our monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions.
Identify and solve performance issues using DataDog.
Implement security best practices by using sysdig, SonarQube and synk tools.
Research and implement new technologies to increase productivity, reliability, and security of the IT environment.
Increase knowledge sharing, participate in documentation, and mentor other engineers.