Job Description Summary
For over forty years, HarbourVest has been home to a committed team of professionals with an entrepreneurial spirit and a desire to deliver impactful solutions to our clients and investing partners. As our global firm grows, we continue to add individuals who seek a collaborative, open-door culture that values diversity and innovative thinking.
In our collegial environment that’s marked by low turnover and high energy, you’ll be inspired to grow and thrive. Here, you will be encouraged to build on your strengths and acquire new skills and experiences.
We are committed to fostering an environment of inclusion that promotes mutual respect among all employees. Understanding and valuing these differences optimizes the potential of both the individual and the firm.
HarbourVest is an equal opportunity employer.
This position will be a hybrid work arrangement, which translates to 2-3 days minimum per week in the office.
The Quantitative DevOps Engineer will have an outstanding opportunity to contribute to the establishment and implementation of CI/CD pipelines and support the maintenance of environments, from development through production, within our world-class Azure-based Investment Data Analytics Platform. As a crucial member of our team, you will provide process-automation expertise that elevates the efficiency and productivity of our sophisticated software development team. This role offers the chance to work on high-impact, high-complexity projects, with significant strategic importance to our organization.
What you bring:
- Five years of proven experience applying DevOps and process-automation expertise within a development and test team, preferably on a data-centered application.
- Proven experience in the implementation and administration of Git-based code repositories and branching/versioning standards.
- Hands-on scripting skills for integration, test, and deployment pipelines, including approval gates.
- Proficient in the use of containerization technologies, such as Docker, Podman, and Kubernetes.
- Experienced in both Windows and Linux based infrastructure.
- Familiarity with managing cloud-based resources using the infrastructure as code (IaC) technique, ideally under Microsoft Azure.
- Well reasoned, effective, and consistent configuration and security practices.
- Demonstrated ability to successfully complete sophisticated, high-impact projects.
- High energy and collaborative style, including experience with Agile software development methodologies.
What You Will Do:
Engineering and Automation: 70%
- Collaborate with data engineers, analysts, test specialists, and infrastructure teams to maintain efficient and effective deployment processes and artifacts.
- Collaborate closely with relevant individuals to develop and manage software repositories and pipelines.
- Design, implement, and maintain automation toolsets for configuration management and IaC.
- Implement vital security layers and access controls.
- Conceive of and demonstrate strategies to modernize and infrastructure, delivery, and system performance!
Release Coordination: 30%
- Coordinate the release process in collaboration with development, test, and business teams.
- Continuously evaluate CI/CD processes for efficiency and control improvements.
Education Preferred
- Bachelor of Arts (B.A), or equivalent experience
Experience
- 3-5 years of DevOps experience for SaaS applications
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What We Do
HarbourVest is an independent, global private markets firm with 40 years of experience and more than $92 billion assets under management as of December 31, 2021. Our interwoven platform provides clients access to global primary funds, secondary transactions, direct co-investments, real assets and infrastructure, and private credit.
