Senior DevOps Engineer

InvestCloud, born in a garage (it's what Californian companies do, after all), is driving a high-speed design and technology revolution that is transforming the way the financial industry uses, processes and interacts with data. 

Today, any investment manager can have access to a first-class integrated investment platform through the cloud, with InvestCloud. We are the first true cloud platform for the securities market. Since the launch in January 2012, we have over 100,000 users in excess of 1 trillion assets, accessing information securely from any location with any device. We are looking for bright and talented individuals as we advance our cutting edge proprietary technology. 

InvestCloud is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our operations team to help automate and manage the provisioning, configuration, deployment, and maintenance of our rapidly expanding global infrastructure. We’re seeking a highly motivated individual with a true passion for DevOps. Success will be measured by an continual improvement in operational efficiency and scalability of InvestCloud’s systems. Please come prepared to discuss interesting and/or large-scale deployment projects during interview process.

Key Responsibilities 

• Collaborate with Systems, Development, and QA teams in the management of DevOps practices across InvestCloud’s locations and data centers in the U.S. and abroad
  
• Use individual initiative to continuously enhance the scalability of InvestCloud’s cloud infrastructure and environment
• Ensure successful deployment of technically advanced applications into cloud-based environment stack
• Use innovative thinking to provide effective and long-term solutions to complex technical issues 
• Maintain best practices for solution development.
• Collaborate with Developers, Systems, and QA teams to develop and configure salt states
• Work to continuously with stakeholder teams to develop expertise within key infrastructure areas

• At least 3 years of senior experience in DevOps 
• Strong appreciation of the factors necessary for successfully deploying large and complex technical infrastructure, operations and applications
• Hands on ability to manage and automate an operational stack
• Self-sufficient, self-motivated and reliable 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills 
• Must have real-world experience of managing operations in Windows Server, RedHat and/or Ubuntu Linux, SQL Databases, ideally Oracle and PostgreSQL
• Proven experience demonstrating DevOps best practices.
• Expertise with log aggregation systems such as Splunk, LogEntries or Loggly.
• The ideal candidate would possess real-world experience managing operations using the following technologies:
• Saltstack
• Jenkins
• Oracle 
• Postgres
• Java/Glassfish
• NoSQL and in-memory databases: CouchDB, MongoDB, Memcached, Redis, Cassandra
• Nagios

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.