DevOps Engineer

Balyasny is in a period of rapid technology transition. This exciting role within our growing Platform Engineering group will provide you with the opportunity to make a lasting impact on the firm’s automation strategy, design, and implementation. At BAM, you will have the chance to work with some of the smartest and most driven individuals in the industry.

As a DevOps Engineer at BAM, you will:

1. Design, implement and maintain our software manufacturing line
2. Enhance and improve developer experience, facilitate autonomy and standardization
3. Develop and evangelize the firm’s DevOps strategy and approach
4. Build relationships with business and technology partners to improve and evolve our offerings and technology stack
5. Pioneer DevOps and Development best practices, with SME mentality.
6. Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and offerings within the automation and DevOps space and act as a champion of automation and high engineering standards across the organization
7. Deploy and maintain CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments
8. Drive an increase in quality and velocity of code deployments in the organization
9. Write code: whether it’s Python, Terraform, Puppet, or something else, writing code to automate and optimize deployment of infrastructure and applications is a core part of this role
10. Participate in on-call rotation with approximately 1 week per month of on-call time shared equally across members of the team
11. Assist with operations of BAM’s Kubernetes container platform: this may include setting up a new cluster, offering a training session for a development team, or helping put an app into containers and deploying that app as a demonstration

Core Tech Stack:

• Public Cloud: AWS, Azure
• Developer Tooling: GitHub, Internal Developer Platform (Nimbus)
• Artifact Management: Nexus, Harbor
• CI/CD: Jenkins, TeamCity, Octopus
• Configuration Management: Puppet, Ansible
• Infrastructure Code: Terraform
• Containerisation & Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker, Helm
• Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, Amazon CloudWatch, Logic Monitor, Open Telemetry, Sentry

To be considered a good cultural fit, you must be:

• Passion for detail
• An ambitious self-starter
• A very strong and efficient communicator
• Able to multi-task and context switch in a fast-paced trading environment
• A problem solver; able to develop quick and sound solutions to complex problems

To be considered a good fit, you must have:

• 3-7+ years, hands-on experience architecting and implementing automation pipelines, monitoring solutions, and infrastructure as code across an organization
• A Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, information systems, or equivalent experience
• Experience crafting communications for both technical and non-technical audiences
• Expert knowledge of CI/CD tools, such as TeamCity, Jenkins, Azure DevOps
• Expert knowledge of configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet, or Ansible
• Expert knowledge of source control systems (Git) and best practices for use
• Expert knowledge of automation scripting using Python and/or Bash
• Expert knowledge of monitoring deployment and test pipelines
• Expert knowledge of immutable infrastructure, infrastructure automation and provisioning tools, such as AWS CloudFormation or Terraform
• Strong knowledge of Linux administration particularly RHEL and CentOS
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems concepts, including best practices and troubleshooting
• Knowledge of Windows Server administration and automation with PowerShell
• Operational understanding of networking concepts, architecture, and best practices, especially as it relates to hybrid cloud integration
• Analytical skills – Ability to troubleshoot and logically assess problems and determine solutions
• Detailed documentation skills – ability to represent ideas, requirements, reference architecture and problems in clear, concise, and business-friendly documents

Bonus points for:

• Hands on experience working with container technologies (Docker, Podman)
• Understanding of Kubernetes as a platform, including deployment of applications, usage of Helm; experience with managed Kubernetes platforms, such as EKS, AKS, or GKE a plus
• Public cloud architecture and strategy planning experience
• Contributions to open source libraries, projects, or communities
• Any AWS, Azure, or GCP resource specializations or certifications
• Any Kubernetes resource specializations or certifications

Don’t have all the skills listed above? Have extra skills you think are important that we haven’t thought of? Please, let us know by applying and telling us a bit more about yourself and why you think you’re qualified!