Senior DevOps Engineer

Department overview:

Pricing, Valuations & RefData (PVR) DevOps is a global team that provides specialised technical builds across the suite of products. DevOps members work closely with the Development, Testing, Client Services teams to build and develop applications using the latest technologies to ensure the highest availability and resilience of all services. Our work helps ensure that Valuations continues to provide high quality service and maintain client satisfaction.

Position summary

IHS Markit is seeking a highly motivated Senior Devops engineer to join our team in Vanada. DevOps is a rapidly growing team at the heart of ensuring the availability and correct operation of our valuations, market and trade data applications.

The team prides itself on its flexibility and technical diversity to maintain service availability and contribute improvements through design and development.

Duties & accountabilities

The role of the Senior DevOps Engineer is primarily focused on building functional systems that improve our customer experience. Responsibilities include:

-Create infrastructure and environments to support our platforms and applications using On-Prem Infrastructure as various AWS Cloud services

-Implement DevOps technologies and processes, e.g: containerisation, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, metrics, monitoring etc

-Automate always

-Take on challenges like migrating code repositories from different platforms to Git using Gitlab

-Support, monitor, maintain and improve our infrastructure and the live running of our applications

-Be part of the on-call and out-of-hours rota when necessary

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

Required:

-Strong background in Linux/Unix Administration in IaaS / PaaS / SaaS models

-Deployment, maintenance and support of enterprise applications into AWS including (but not limited to) Route53, ELB, VPC, EC2, S3, ECS, SQS

-Good understanding of Terraform and similar ‘Infrastructure as Code’ technologies)

-Solid understanding of cloud security models and best practices

-Good understanding of modern CI/CD methods and approaches

-Strong experience with SQL and NoSQL databases such MySQL, PostgreSQL, DB/2, MongoDB, DynamoDB

-Experience with automation/configuration management using toolsets such as Chef, Puppet or equivalent

-Experience of enterprise systems deployed as micro-services through code pipelines utilizing containerisation (Docker)

-Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and tools

-Working knowledge, understanding and ability to write scripts using languages including Bash, Python and an ability to understand Java, JavaScript and PHP

-Working knowledge of development Languages – Java (prefered)

-Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service Experience with systems and IT operations operating within an ISO27001 environment

-Can manage regular system patching, including critical security upgrades and will seek strategies to automate these process

-Can work with and manage key suppliers in the production environments (security suppliers, suppliers providing infrastructure monitoring and others)

-Expertise in system monitoring and alerting strategies and can draw on their experience to drive improvements in system monitoring with automation, third party tools and frameworks and validating external suppliers

Compensation/Benefits Information:

S&P Global states that the anticipated base salary range for this position is $49,440 - $175,000. Base salary ranges may vary by geographic location.

This role is eligible to receive S&P Global benefits. For more information on the benefits we provide to our employees, visit https://www.spgbenefitessentials.com/newhires.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law.  Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.

If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to: EEO.Compliance@spglobal.com and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.

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Equal Opportunity Employer:

S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law.  Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.

If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to: EEO.Compliance@spglobal.com and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person. 
 

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