Senior Kubernetes DevOps Engineer - Greater London, United Kingdom - SS&C Technologies

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    About SS&C Technologies

    SS&C is a global provider of investment, financial services and software for the financial services and healthcare industries. Named to Fortune 1000 list as top U.S. company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut and has 20,000+ employees in over 90 offices in 35 countries. Some 18,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest institutions to local firms, manage and account for their investments using SS&C's products and services.

    About the role

    Leading the DevOps team with responsibility for supporting existing DevOps tools in addition to designing & building new capabilities. This role will primarily be supporting the SS&C managed services platform which hosts in-house developed software applications for our customers on AWS.

    Your Responsibilities

    • Manages a team of individual contributors who participate in the day-to-day automation of the end-to-end process from application build to application deployment, including aspects of the continuous integration and continuous delivery process.
    • Participates on project teams between operations and software engineering, providing in-depth knowledge and direction on the rapid build, deployment, and operation of various systems & infrastructure components.
    • Adapts project plans and priorities to address resource challenges.
    • Guides the installation, creation, and enhancement of automation tools and workflow capabilities that support the coding lifecycle.
    • Partners with agile software engineering team leaders to prioritize incremental product deployments and the handling of deployments to the test and production environments.

    Your Experience

    • 6+ years experience working in a DevOps role
    • Team management experience
    • Understanding of hosting production environments on AWS
    • Solid understanding of DevOps practices and methods
    • Working knowledge of SDLC principles and methodologies
    • Previous Software Engineer &/or IT Operations role's with significant scripting/coding experience
    • Advanced knowledge of Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery build pipelines
    • Experience working with microservices, containerisation (docker) and infrastructure as code
    • A passion for automating manual processes
    • Keen to continuously improve & innovate

    EEO Statement / Non-agency Disclosure

    We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups, to enable us to bring a diversity of perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.

    Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.