Infrastructure System Engineer in Riga
Description
Risk Focus is a NY-based firm that provides strategic IT consulting to global financial institutions. Our projects provide solutions, methodologies, and support guidance for projects that address and minimize risk in capital markets. Our approach is values-based, and we are hiring individuals with similar values to join our team.
We are looking for a strong engineer with deep knowledge of infrastructure/networking processes, OOP coding skills, and experience in various cloud technologies with aspirations to automate every single aspect of infrastructure.
As a member of highly experienced technical team you will be helping to deliver outstanding solutions for institutions across the globe. Ultimately we are after someone who is flexible, a fast learner, is not afraid of new challenges, and who recognizes that their success has both cause and effect relationships to the success of the company.
Primary you will look after:
- Lead analyses of a client’ existing infrastructure & software environment
- Preparation of implementation & cloud migration plan
- Automation infrastructure deployment (Amazon VPC, OpenStack Tenant, VMWare RG, OpenShift Project and others)
- Automation application deployment (Cloudify, Blueprints, Ansible Playbooks, Chef Recipes, Puppet Manifest, OSO Templates and others)
- Liaise with vendors and service provider (complete certification on demand)
- Develop and maintain company’s existing cloud infrastructure solution
Essential Skills:
- System / Network engineer with solid experience in automatization of infrastructure processes (+3 years)
- Deep knowledge of Linux / Unix systems administration
- Advanced shell – scripting skills (Python, Bash/KSH/ZSH)
- Basic programming, preferably in Python
- Experience with SaltStack, or Chef or Puppet or similar
- Good English skills (written & verbal)
Desirable Skills:
- CI/CD – creating pipelines, managing pool of agents, tracking artifacts
- Windows Administration (20% of our installations are Windows 2012 machines – AD, GPO, CA, SCCM, PowerShell Scripting)
- Experience writing Splunk dashboards, functions, alerts
- JavaEE Application servers: knowledge of Redhat JBoss & IBM WebSphere installs is a big plus
- Exposure to Docker best practices – compose, volume containers, Kubernetes, OpenShift
Why you should join us:
- Very competitive salary + bonus package
- Ability to research and develop completely new infrastructure-related products and tools in agile and safe environment
- Opportunity for outstanding professional development by working with latest technologies & frameworks
- Work on complex infrastructure projects, eg. petabyte data migration or set-up of a new data center
- Participation on on-site & external trainings / certifications/ IT conferences
- Travel to United States HQ and get exposure to Tech industry from inside out
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