DevOps Engineer

About the role

Octus

Octus is a leading global provider of credit intelligence, data, and analytics. Since 2013, tens of thousands of professionals across hedge fund, investment banking, management consulting, and law firm verticals have come to rely on Octus to make better, faster, and more confident decisions in pace with the fast-moving credit markets. For more information, visit: https://octus.com/

Working at Octus

Octus hires growth-minded innovators and trailblazers across the globe to drive our business and culture. Our core values – Action Oriented, Customer First Mindset, Effective Team Players, and Driven to Excel – define an organizational ethos that’s as high-performing as it is human. Among other perks, Octus employees enjoy competitive health benefits, matched 401k and pension plans, PTO, generous parental leave, gym subsidies, educational reimbursements for career development, recognition programs, and much more.

Role

As a DevOps Engineer at Octus, you will play a crucial role in the development, implementation, and maintenance of the cloud infrastructure for our products. This position involves close collaboration with Application Developers, Data Engineers, SRE, Security, and IT professionals to automate and streamline operations and processes. Your contributions will be essential in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of our systems and applications.

Core Responsibilities:

- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the build, test, and deployment processes.

- Effectively prioritize workload with a constant focus on increasing developer efficiency.

- Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure to ensure scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness. Experience with AWS is a plus.

- Work closely with SRE to develop and maintain monitoring and alerting systems to ensure the health and performance of our systems and applications.

- Work closely with Security to implement and enforce security best practices across our infrastructure and applications.

- Collaborate with software developers to optimize application performance and reliability.

- Participate in the planning and execution of disaster recovery and business continuity strategies.

- Effectively communicate with stakeholders to provide updates on project statuses, issues, and recommendations.

- Participate in on-call rotation to provide system support.

Core Requirements:

- At least 5 years of experience in a DevOps role.

- At least 2+ years of experience with Terraform.

- Expert knowledge of cloud concepts and services (EC2, ECS, S3, RDS, A/ELB, EBS, VPC, Route53 or equivalent).

- Expert level knowledge of Linux. Strong scripting skills for automation and tooling.

- Ability to troubleshoot, diagnose, resolve & document RCA of incidents.

- Good knowledge of database configuration, concepts, maintenance, and troubleshooting.