Associate Director, Platform Engineering

S&P Global is seeking a hands on and experienced, driven, DevOps Engineer who is passionate about delivering high-value, high-impact solutions to the worlds most demanding, high-profile clients. Candidate should have experience with developing and deploying native cloud-based solutions, possesses a passion for container-based technologies, immutable infrastructure, and continuous delivery practices in deploying global software.

What youll work on:

• Engage with development teams to document and implement best practice (low maintenance) cloud-native solutions for new products
• Development of automation, tooling and monitoring solutions to improve supportability and reduce maintenance overhead
• Support application infrastructure to ensureplatformis optimized for performance and reliability
• Implement security best practices
• Implement DevOps technologies and processesi.e.containerization, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, metrics, monitoring etc.
• Strong background in Windows/Linux/ Unix Administration in IaaS PaaS SaaS models Deployment, maintenance and support of enterprise applications into AWS including (but not limited to) Route53, ELB, VPC, EC2, S3, ECS, SQS
• Strong experience with SQL databases such MySQL, PostgreSQL
• Experience of enterprise systems deployed as micro-services through code pipelines utilizing containerization (Docker)
• Good understanding of CloudFormation (or similar Infrastructure as Code technologies)
• Create infrastructure and environments to support our platforms and applications using CloudFormation, Terraform and related technologies to ensure all our environments are controlled and consistent.
• Experience of networks, security, load balancers, DNS and other infrastructure components and their application to cloud (AWS) environments.
• Support, monitor, maintain and improve our infrastructure and the live running of our applications

Whatwe look for:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science and /or Certified Development Program
• Experience with automation/ configuration management using Docker, CloudFormation, Terraform or an equivalent
• Strong distributed systems knowledge and web services design, implementation, and/or operation experience
• Experience with GitLab, CI/CD pipeline
• Software design fundamentals in data structures, algorithm design and performance analysis
• Familiarity with stateless RESTful Architecture
• Hands onexperiencein the following:
  • AWS Services such as EC2, S3, IAM, RDS and CloudWatch
  • Windows/Linux environments
  • SQL Server/PostgreSQL
  • Bashor PythonScripting
• Ability to work in team-oriented environment, and can work independently
• Experience working in an Agile Development environment
• Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills

The following experience would be advantageous:

• Experience in Redis, RabbitMQ, Consul, Ansible
• Integration technologies, especially with Web Services and Microservices
• Experience using tools such as PowerShell, Octopus Deploy,TFS, Splunk
• Experience workingin a global team.