Sr. DevOps Engineer

As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Job Description

SS&C is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team. You will play a critical role in automating our server infrastructure, streamlining our deployment processes, and championing DevOps best practices across the organization. If you are passionate about infrastructure as code, API-driven automation, and ensuring the reliability and scalability of our applications in a Kubernetes environment, we encourage you to apply!

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain robust and scalable automation solutions for physical and virtual server infrastructure provisioning using tools like Ansible, Python, or similar.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts and workflows leveraging various APIs (e.g., cloud provider APIs, virtualization platform APIs, hardware management APIs, internally developed APIs).
• Architect, implement, and manage our Kubernetes infrastructure for deploying, scaling, and maintaining containerized applications.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the build, test, and deployment of applications to Kubernetes.
• Implement and maintain infrastructure monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions to ensure system health and performance.
• Collaborate closely with development teams to integrate automation and DevOps practices into their workflows.
• Drive the adoption of DevOps best practices, including infrastructure as code, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and automated testing.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure and deployment-related issues in a timely and efficient manner.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of internal tooling and documentation.
• Mentor and guide junior members of the team.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in DevOps, automation, and cloud computing.
• Participate in on-call rotations as needed to ensure the availability of critical systems.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in a DevOps, Infrastructure Automation, or related role.
• Strong proficiency in at least one scripting language, preferably Python, for automation tasks.
• Extensive experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar.
• Deep understanding and hands-on experience with containerization technologies (Docker) and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes).
• Proven experience designing, implementing, and managing CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, or similar.
• Experience working with and automating interactions with various APIs (RESTful, SOAP, etc.).
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with automating physical and/or virtual infrastructure within an enterprise environment
• Experience with server hardware management and automation (e.g., IPMI, Dell iDRAC, HP iLO).
• Understanding of datacenter operations and DCIM tools
• Familiarity with software-defined networking (SDN) concepts and automation.
• Experience with security automation and compliance.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), AWS Certified DevOps Engineer).

Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.

SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.