COMPANY: Canoe Intelligence

WEBSITE: https://canoeintelligence.com/

TITLE: Director of DevOps

LOCATION: New York City/Remote

The Role: 

If you love using cutting edge technology to build client facing products, we are looking for you! As a Director of DevOps, you will be working with our entire engineering and product team to take our development operations to the next level of evolution. In this role, you will have the unique opportunity to make a direct impact on our clients, help us build a world class engineering team and grow a business that is already making a difference in the alternative asset management technology space. 

 What You will Do: 

• Collaborate on design and implementation of Canoe's next-generation AWS infrastructure
• Develop, maintain, and execute strategy for monitoring system stability and security
• Streamline and build deployment pipeline using industry leading tools and development standards
• Develop, oversee, and monitor technology KPIs
• Monitor, manage, and report infrastructure problems and get critical issues fixed and released in a timely manner 
• Work with software engineers to resolve code issues in a timely manner and assist in compiling processes to automate testing
• Document all testing activity and devise efficient workflows for end-to-end incident management 
• Report performance and scalability metrics to the engineering team as well as company leadership

What We’re Looking For:

Required:

• 5-10 years of experience with managing CI/CD pipeline, infrastructure automation, application and infrastructure security, and service and reliability engineering  
• 5-10 years of AWS experience including but not limited to Route 53, ELB, API Gateway, VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, ECS, EKS etc. 
• Familiarity with logging, monitoring, alerting, data visualization tools such as CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, DataDog, PagerDuty etc. 
• Familiarity with infrastructure as a code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
• Understanding of the design process and software development lifecycle (agile or otherwise) as well as experience with continuous deployment
• Strong project management and communication skills combined with strong attention to detail
• Ability to easily adapt to changing priorities and effectively alter goals.
• Ability to drive consensus among stakeholders, manage expectations and conflicts by taking data driven approach at problem solving 
• Ability to mentor, guide and lead team members by defining success metrics and laying out a clear path to achieve those success metrics    

Preferred:

• Experience with automated testing tools on testing strategies ranging from unit tests, integration tests, regression tests, performance, and load tests
• Exposure to application performance monitoring 
• Experience with database management and database administration  
• Comfort with Linux and shell scripting
• Prior experience with supporting engineering team in a fast-paced product centric environment is plus 

What You’ll Get:

• Full benefits coverage, including Medical, Dental, Vision, and commuter benefits
• 20 days PTO, Unlimited Sick Days, + Gym & Wellness Reimbursement
• Option to be 100% remote
• One Floating Holiday Annually (Up to Employee Discretion)

 What’s The Process?

• Our candidate discovery process generally constitutes the following key milestones: Phone Interview(s), Video Interview(s), Review of Work Product, and Small Project.

Our Values: 

• Client First —> Listen, and deliver client-centric solutions
• Be An Owner —> Take initiative, improve situations, drive positive outcomes 
• Excellence —> Always set the highest standard for yourself and others
• Win Together —> 1 + 1 = 3

Who We Are:

Canoe is reimagining alternative investment data processes for hundreds of leading institutional investors, capital allocators, asset servicing firms and wealth managers. By combining industry expertise with the most sophisticated data capture technologies, Canoe’s technology automates the highly frustrating, time-consuming, and costly manual workflows related to alternative investment document and data management, extraction, and delivery. With Canoe, clients can refocus capital and human resources on business performance and growth, increase efficiency, and gain deeper access to their data. Canoe’s AI-driven platform was developed in 2013 for Portage Partners LLC, a private investment firm.

Canoe is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical​​​ condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or ​expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.