Responsibilities
- Build, enhance, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab Runners, or similar tools.
- Design and manage cloud-native infrastructures (AWS preferred), including networking, compute, IAM, and managed services.
- Automate environment provisioning using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform).
- Implement and manage containerized workflows with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS or similar).
- Collaborate with engineering teams to support deployments of C#, Python, and React-based applications.
- Develop internal tooling for build automation, monitoring, logging, and performance optimization.
- Improve release processes, reduce deployment friction, and increase system reliability.
- Monitor environments using Datadog, CloudWatch, or equivalent observability tooling.
- Troubleshoot high-priority production issues and drive root-cause analysis.
- Promote DevOps best practices around version control, branching strategies, testing, and automation.
- Ensure operational maturity, including backup strategies, access controls, and security reviews.
Required Experience
- 5+ years of DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering experience in cloud-native environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS (EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudFormation/Terraform).
- Expertise in CI/CD pipelines — GitLab, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or equivalent.
- Strong containerization experience (Docker; Kubernetes/EKS strongly preferred).
- Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) with Terraform.
- Scripting skills in Python.
- Familiarity supporting C#/.NET Core, Python services, and React front-end builds.
- Experience building secure, scalable, and highly available production environments.
- Strong understanding of networking, monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks.
- Ability to work independently in a high-paced, high-ownership environment.
Preferred Experience
- Experience supporting financial systems, trading platforms, or real-time applications.
- Familiarity with SQL Server and data-centric workflows.
- Knowledge of microservices, REST APIs, and distributed system design.
- Experience with Agile/Scrum and modern SDLC practices.
Top Skills
What We Do
Doran Jones Inc. (DJI) is the leading financial services Data Engineering and Application Development firm, specializing in Capital Markets, Risk, and Regulatory Compliance. We are US-based, helping our clients fill gaps in capacity and expertise, reduce risk, and accelerate change. Our leaders average over 25 years of experience in Financial Services and Technology. DJI is repeatedly engaged by the largest and most complex clients for our Agile transformation expertise and practical understanding of the critical relationship between data, architecture, and application development.
DJI has a mission to place more people from non-traditional backgrounds into sustainable technology careers. Through partnerships with non-profit technology programs in underserved communities and Veteran organizations, candidates transition from tech training programs into real IT careers at DJI. Our unique recruitment policy allows us to create exceptional teams, bringing a broad spectrum of experience to our company and creating anything but a traditional consulting firm.
DJI is a wholly-owned subsidiary of McLaren Strategic Ventures, a private equity firm, that invests in start-ups and scale-ups. They provide a full range of highly trusted domain consulting, advisory services, and innovative technologies globally. Doran Jones is able to offer a broad range of technology, deeper AI and machine learning tools, data intelligence, alternative resourcing capabilities, and capital access to invest and digitize at scale. Our clients benefit from this unique portfolio allowing them to accelerate the pace of their own digital transformations through innovative products and services designed around industry-wide issues.
