Cloud Platform Site Reliability Engineer

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Title: Cloud Platform Site Reliability Engineer

Business Unit: Cloud Hosting Services

Location: Hong Kong or Singapore

Barings is a leading global financial services firm dedicated to meeting the evolving investment and capital needs of our clients and customers. Through active asset management and direct origination, we provide innovative solutions and access to differentiated opportunities across public and private capital markets. A subsidiary of MassMutual, Barings maintains a strong global presence with business and investment professionals located across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Cloud Platform Site Reliability Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining Cloud infrastructure solutions for enterprise-level organizations and play a hybrid role that combines aspects of cloud engineering and operations. The Cloud Platform Site Reliability Engineer will be responsible for ensuring reliability, performance, monitoring, security and the overall management of our Cloud Platform. You will work closely with application and Data Platform Teams to design, implement and maintain the company's cloud platform, applying software engineering principles to infrastructure and operations, with a keen focus on reliability and performance. The availability of cloud services is key to Barings’ critical business functions.

Additionally, this individual will be expected to contribute to any planned modernization of on-premise infrastructure services and applications to cloud-native solutions.

Primary Responsibilities

• Support and maintenance of business-critical applications.
• Collaborate with application and data teams to implement robust monitoring and automation in order to reduce service outages and eliminate manual toil.
• Collaborate closely with other teams across Infrastructure, including architecture and engineering, to implement scalable and highly automated solutions.
• Develop automation processes using scripting and automation tools.
• Maintaining Barings alert and notification systems to ensure failures are detected and proper teams are notified with service level objectives aligned with business goals.
• Troubleshoot complex issues by analyzing logs, network traffic and application configurations.
• Proactively identify areas of improvement in the existing infrastructure and provide recommendations to enhance performance, security or reliability
• Work with application support teams to ensure application services are compliant and running efficiently.
• Form part of the technical transformation team that will deliver the migration from on-premise to cloud-native services, including taking part in design stages, testing and operations
• Create proper documentation, and other artifacts as required, to assist in the knowledge transfer to other team members.
• Provide comprehensive support for all server and infrastructure resources, including both on-premise systems and cloud-based platforms, ensuring optimal performance, availability, and security across the enterprise.
• Staying updated with industry advancements.
• This role may occasionally require weekend work, depending on business needs or project timelines.

Qualifications

Candidate must have:

• 5+ years of experience as a Cloud Engineer or Cloud SRE with demonstrable skills in Azure.
• Proven ability to manage hybrid infrastructure environments, including on-premise systems and Microsoft Azure cloud platforms.
• Proficiency in implementing and supporting backup, archival, and disaster recovery services in hybrid environments, including on-premise systems and Microsoft Azure.
• Manage and optimize resource provisioning across hybrid platforms to ensure cost efficiency.
• Experience in ensuring compliance to industry benchmarks using Azure Policy.
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP networking concepts and protocols like FTPS, SSH/SFTP, TLS
• Experience with scripting languages Bash, Python or PowerShell.
• Experience with logging and monitoring tools across hybrid infrastructure to ensure services are available and operating within their SLO.
• Experience working in a highly automated financial services environment.
• Administer and optimize Microsoft Windows Server environments, including Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, and Group Policy.
• Strong experience in building fault-tolerant, scalable, and secure systems
• You are passionate about innovation and love leading technological change
• Ability to learn new ways and technologies.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Productions systems support experience.
• Troubleshooting skills and proven ability to carry out detailed root cause analysis.
• A continuous learning mindset.

Beneficial:

• Experience with Nutanix Hyperconverged technologies
• Experience in AWS and GCP cloud technologies

Requisite Skills

Additional Skills

Barings is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer; Minority/Female/Age/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Individual with Disability/Protected Veteran. We welcome all persons to apply.