eFront is a leading software provider of end-to-end solutions dedicated to the financial industry. eFront’s solutions for cross-asset classes serve more than 800 customers in 48 countries, including companies in the private equity, real estate investment, banking and insurance sectors. Founded in 1999, eFront has offices in New York, Montreal, Belgrade, Boston, London, Jersey, Paris (HQ), Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong and Beijing amongst our 20 global locations.
In order to support our constantly growing business, we are looking for a:
CloudOps Engineer
Belgrade
Department: DevOps
Position
eFront is looking for an experienced CloudOps Engineer. The CloudOps Engineer will be responsible for developing and executing deployment packages for deploying, automating, monitoring and supporting high-availability Windows-based servers and applications in AWS hosted environments. You will be responsible for providing 24X7 support for mission critical applications and systems hosted by eFront for our customers. You will participate in continuous improvements of our production and staging/qa environments by working as a member of a cross functional team.
Your main responsibilities will be:
- Develop scripts and utilize industry standard tools for Windows system automation for creation and update of virtual machines using Powershell.
- Perform hands-on server infrastructure support in large enterprise environments
- Expected to be highly skilled and knowledgeable in industry-standard tools
- Architecting systems with automation for security, scalability, reliability, and performance, requiring minimal work direction
- System administration, server patching, supporting upgrades and resolution of production problems in a timely manner
- Act as a liaison in meetings with development groups, bringing an operational perspective to the SDLC and identifying operations deliverable, dates and architecture changes as needed.
- Collaborate with developers, vendors and other groups within eFront to plan Windows automation strategies for implementing new systems and services.
- Interact with internal customers supporting external customers to provide world-class production support.
- Implement System Monitoring to detect performance issues in virtual machines managed by Cloud Operations.
Required skills and experience:
- Master’s or Bachelors Degree (Information Technology or related field)
- Minimum 5+ years experience building and maintaining system automation and batch/shell scripting
- Minimum 5+ years experience with Windows Server administration in co-located facilities, managed virtual, and/or in public and private clouds
- Ability to work after office hours as required for support and deployments
- Participate in 24X7 oncall rotation
- Unwavering operational focus to provide excellent service to our 'customers'.
- Highly motivated team player who contributes to the operational maturity of the team
- Creative problem solving skills that require minimum supervisory prompting Documentation skills that use tools like Visio, Sharepoint, Powerpoint, Excel.
- Great communication skills both written and oral
- Ownership of tasks and projects with 100% follow through to completion.
- Ability to follow process and create process where there is none.
- Knowledge of eFront solutions is a plus
- Fluent in English
Preferred qualifications:
- Expert experience with deployments using:
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Windows Powershell or SCCM
- Advanced experience with:
- Windows Server administration
- Windows Server 2008R2/2012/2012R2 system administration tasks
- Development and system administration tools as Wireshark, Fiddler, IIS FRT, Sysinternals, SQL Tracing, etc.
- Standard system administrator functions such as server build outs, monitoring, patch/security updates, antivirus, backups, restores, asset management, 24X7 support, pager duty, etc.
- WSUS for patch management
- Experience working in cloud systems and virtual machine environments
- Experience with automation related to:
- setup and maintenance of Windows Services, IIS Web Servers including High Availability and Load Balancing solutions.
- Experience in security management, with systems other than Microsoft security Knowledge of high availability and disaster recovery methods for complex applications deployed in multiple regions.
eFront stands out as a real career booster:
- We are at the crossroads between software and the thriving businesses of Private Equity and Real Estate
- We foster international and cross-functional mobility across our broad office network
- Our culture encourages risk-taking and innovation
- While we are a financially robust and established company, we are still as agile and boiling as a start-up and offer plenty of opportunities to gain responsibilities rapidly
Please send us your CV in English.
Deadline for applications: 21.05.2017.