Why Ryan?
-
Global Award-Winning Culture
-
Flexible Work Environment
-
Generous Paid Time Off
-
World-Class Benefits and Compensation
-
Rapid Growth Opportunities
-
Company Sponsored Two-Way Transportation
-
Exponential Career Growth
As a member of the Ryan Application Development Team, this position will be a critical contributor to an ambitious strategic initiative with the goal of re-envisioning a broad suite of enterprise level applications. Aiming to create simple and compelling developer and client experiences, the Senior DevOps Engineer will be required to design, maintain, and manage infrastructure configuration with the goal of achieving a continuous deployable system while maintaining an exceptional level of service delivery for all our clients. We are looking for someone that will grow the DevOps practice by building scalable and efficient cloud infrastructure with built-in monitoring for automated system health checks. Candidates will be required to interface directly with technical leads, software architects, other business groups, and key stakeholders demanding exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
The Ryan Application Development Team promotes an open-minded atmosphere of learning and growth and expects the same from candidates. We want to foster a positive and enthusiastic can-do attitude with our work. Candidates should have a sense of where things are going and have experience using best of breed tools, technologies, and practices. This role is a formative one for the future of application development within Ryan, LLC and will be best filled by candidates hungry to have a huge impact.
Responsibilities:
- Work with TPO Development team to create and implement solutions on the Cloudera platform based on provided requirements.
- Work closely with Cloudera’s teams at all levels to help ensure TPO’s needs are met.
- Analyze complex distributed production deployments and make recommendations to optimize performance.
- Help design and implement Big Data architectures and configurations.
- Write and produce technical and supporting documentation, knowledge base articles.
Desired Skills:
- Experience working with Cloudera Data Platform (CDP).
- Good understanding of AWS.
- Containerization technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes.
- Experience designing and deploying production large-scale Hadoop solutions.
- Ability to understand and translate customer requirements into technical requirements.
- Experience designing data queries in a Hadoop environment using tools such as Apache Hive, Apache Phoenix, Apache Spark or others.
- Experience installing and administering multi-node Hadoop clusters.
- Strong experience implementing solutions in an Enterprise Linux or Unix environment.
- Good understanding of network configuration, devices, protocols, speeds and optimizations.
- Knowledge of programming and scripting languages.
- Strong understanding with using network-based APIs, preferably REST/JSON or XML/SOAP.
- Experience implementing big data use-cases, understanding of standard design patterns commonly used in Hadoop-based deployments.
Education and Experience:
Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent related work experience. Six or more years of practical applications development experience in a DevOps or System Engineer capacity.
Computer Skills:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must have strong knowledge of Azure, AWS, Azure DevOps, Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Server – Availability Groups, scripting (Python, PowerShell), automation (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, etc.), and containerization technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes.
Certificates and Licenses:
Valid driver’s license required.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
This position has no supervisory responsibilities.
Work Environment:
- Standard indoor working environment.
- Occasional long periods of sitting while working at computer.
- Position requires regular interaction with employees at all levels of the firm as well as interaction with external vendors and clients as necessary.
- Independent travel requirement: up to 10%.
Equal Opportunity Employer: disability/veteran
Top Skills
What We Do
Ryan is a tax services firm providing tax advisory and consulting services on a multi-jurisdictional basis.
Ryan, an award-winning global tax services and software provider, is the largest Firm in the world dedicated exclusively to business taxes. With global headquarters in Dallas, Texas, the Firm provides an integrated suite of federal, state, local, and international tax services on a multijurisdictional basis, including tax recovery, consulting, advocacy, compliance, and technology services. Ryan is a seven-time recipient of the International Service Excellence Award from the Customer Service Institute of America (CSIA) for its commitment to world-class client service. Empowered by the dynamic myRyan work environment, which is widely recognized as the most innovative in the tax services industry, Ryan’s multidisciplinary team of more than 2,500 professionals and associates serves over 14,000 clients in more than 50 countries, including many of the world’s most prominent Global 5000 companies.
