Octus
Octus is a leading global provider of credit intelligence, data, and analytics. Since 2013, tens of thousands of professionals across hedge fund, investment banking, management consulting, and law firm verticals have come to rely on Octus to make better, faster, and more confident decisions in pace with the fast-moving credit markets.
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Working at Octus
Octus hires growth-minded innovators and trailblazers across the globe to drive our business and culture. Our core values – Action Oriented, Customer First Mindset, Effective Team Players, and Driven to Excel – define an organizational ethos that’s as high-performing as it is human. Among other perks, Octus employees enjoy competitive health benefits, matched 401k and pension plans, PTO, generous parental leave, gym subsidies, educational reimbursements for career development, recognition programs, pet-friendly offices (US only), and much more.
Role
As a DevOps Engineer at Octus, you will play a crucial role in the development, implementation, and maintenance of the cloud infrastructure for our products. This position involves close collaboration with Application Developers, Data Engineers, SRE, Security, and IT professionals to automate and streamline operations and processes. Your contributions will be essential in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of our systems and applications.
Core Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the build, test, and deployment processes.
- Effectively prioritize workload with a constant focus on increasing developer efficiency.
- Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure to ensure scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness. Experience with AWS is a plus.
- Work closely with SRE to develop and maintain monitoring and alerting systems to ensure the health and performance of our systems and applications.
- Work closely with Security to implement and enforce security best practices across our infrastructure and applications.
- Collaborate with software developers to optimize application performance and reliability.
- Participate in the planning and execution of disaster recovery and business continuity strategies.
- Effectively communicate with stakeholders to provide updates on project statuses, issues, and recommendations.
- Participate in on-call rotation to provide system support.
Core Requirements:
- At least 5 years of experience in a DevOps role.
- At least 2+ years of experience with Terraform.
- Expert knowledge of cloud concepts and services (EC2, ECS, S3, RDS, A/ELB, EBS, VPC, Route53 or equivalent).
- Expert level knowledge of Linux. Strong scripting skills for automation and tooling.
- Ability to troubleshoot, diagnose, resolve & document RCA of incidents.
- Good knowledge of database configuration, concepts, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
- Thorough understanding of Security principles and experience in designing, implementing, monitoring proper controls.
- Extensive experience with Infrastructure-as-code & configuration management tools (Terraform, SaltStack or equivalent).
- Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes, ECS including managing microservices architectures.
- Knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Github Actions or equivalent.
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Datadog, Cloud Watch or equivalent.
- Excellent communication skill, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams.
At Octus, we consider a range of factors in connection with compensation decisions, including experience, skills, location, and our business needs and limitations. As a result, compensation may vary within and across similar roles and positions. Please note that the salary range information below is a good faith estimate for this position and actual compensation for any individual may fall outside this range if warranted by the circumstances applicable to that individual. If we identify a role that would be suitable for a broader range of skills and experience such that we would consider hiring at multiple levels then the range listed below may reflect that breadth.
The salary range estimate for this position is $165,000 - $190,000.
The actual compensation will be at Octus' sole discretion and will be determined by the aforementioned and other relevant factors.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Octus is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse work environment where all individuals are valued, respected, and treated fairly. We believe that diversity enriches our workplace and enhances our ability to innovate and succeed.
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What We Do
Founded in 2013, Reorg has fundamentally changed the way financial and legal professionals access complex and opaque business information.
Our unique editorial team combines reporting with financial and legal analysis to provide a holistic view of topical situations and delivers that view in real time through our proprietary platform, which is powered by machine learning and natural language processing applications.
Today, with offices on three continents, Reorg serves 26,000 professionals across the world’s leading hedge funds, asset managers, investment banks, law firms and financial advisors so they can make better business, investment and advisory decisions. Our vision is to be the best-in-class provider of complex and opaque credit information delivered in a clear, actionable way.
Why Work With Us
Reorg hires innovators and trailblazers across the globe to drive our business and our incredible corporate culture alike. Our core values define an organizational ethos that’s as high-performing as it is human. Reorg employees enjoy competitive health benefits, matched 401k and pension plans, and educational reimbursements for career development.
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Octus Offices
Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Reorg has adopted a hybrid working policy. For non-remote employees located within a reasonable commuting distance to one of our offices, the requirement is to work from the office at least 2 days per week.
