Messaging/Streaming Expert

Open Systems Technologies - New York, NY

Full-time - Mid Level

New York, NY

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Messaging/Streaming Expert will play a crucial role in developing and implementing cloud-native messaging and streaming solutions for a financial firm. This position involves collaboration with various teams to enhance cloud technological capabilities, automate infrastructure, and ensure successful deployment of cloud application services. The expert will also contribute to innovation through proof of concepts and comprehensive documentation, all while working in an Agile environment.

Responsibilities

• Work with Infrastructure Leadership to develop and implement cloud native messaging and streaming solutions for high-volume transaction environments.
• Collaborate with architects to build and automate messaging infrastructure capabilities to support system wide integrations.
• Engage with other infrastructure engineers to build modularized terraform infrastructure as code (IaC) templates to standardize implementations.
• Engage with architects, developers, and technical support teams to achieve success in deployment of Cloud application services within a managed service environment.
• Collaborate with our System IT partners to advance cloud technological capabilities to meet business requirements.
• Develop advanced cloud strategies for streamlined support and direction for new engagements.
• Contribute to innovation and help anchor Proof of Concepts to assess service fitness.
• Assess foundational services, integration services, cloud operations and management capabilities.
• Plan and deliver in an Agile environment.
• Communicate clearly and honestly within and outside the squads.
• Solve complex problems as and when they arise.
• Produce comprehensive documentation.

Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree preferred
• 6-10 years of cloud engineering experience
• Experience building and managing enterprise cloud infrastructure
• Strong hands-on experience on AWS and/or Azure environments
• Strong hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation
• Specialized expertise in building modularized terraform infrastructure as code (IaC) templates to increase implementation velocity
• Specialized expertise with messaging, streaming solutions implementations using AWS Kafka, MQ, Kinesis, SQS, SNS services
• Strong hands-on experience working with various AWS services including but not limited to IAM, EC2, S3, ELB/ALB, RDS/Aurora, ElastiCache
• Strong hand-on expertise with container implementations using Elastic Container Services (ECS), Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS), Docker
• Proven experience in setting up DevOps infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, driving automated build management using GitLab, Jenkins, Nexus, Sonar, Ansible Tower, Maven, Code Commit, Code Pipeline and Code build services
• Extensive expertise in providing guidance, building highly available/fault-tolerant enterprise class infrastructure with multiple-region and multi-AZ models
• Working knowledge of implementing cloud identity and access management solutions to enforce security guidelines
• Working knowledge and experience with DevSecOps operating model
• Experience working in Agile teams
• Development experience using Python and/or Java preferred
• Proven experience translating architectural plans and business requirements into infrastructure implementations
• Self-starter with the ability to effectively plan, prioritize and manage multiple projects, tasks and deliverables throughout project lifecycle.

Nice-to-haves

• Development experience using Python and/or Java preferred

Benefits

• Competitive pay at $100/hr