OCP Engineer

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Role: OCP Engineer Employment: W2 (Visa independents only) Experience: 6 to 12 Years Work mode: Hybrid Location : Jersey City, NJ Position Summary The DS (Distributed Systems) Engineering and Integration team is primarily responsible for engineering and supporting select middleware solutions on distributed Linux and appliances. Products used and supported in this effort include but are not limited to: Broadridge Appia and TradeScope FIX (Financial Information eXchange) software. Open-source QuickFIX FIX (Financial Information eXchange) software. Responsible for design, installation, configuration and support of a set of software products and working with other infrastructure teams (Linux, Networking, Data Center), Application Development and Client Connectivity to implement, maintain and debug solutions using those products. Participate in weekend implementations and on-call rotations and disaster recovery. Primary Responsibilities Drive implementation of the container platform ecosystem use for QuickFIX in the cloud. Manage, independently install, customizes, and integrated commercial software packages using CI/CD tools. Development, Defect fixing, User stories using JIRA, Root cause analysis, Project Install support and Maintenance for DS Engineering platforms hosted on Cloud Platforms Assist with the development of the DS Engineering and Integration team Container Strategy. Cluster capacity management and provisioning through automation of underlying hosts Provide L2 and L3 engineering support to platforms and other engineers. Work with experienced team members to conduct root cause analysis of issues, review new and existing code and/or perform unit testing. Create system documentation/playbook(s). Partner with experienced team members to develop accurate work estimates on work packages. Installation, configuration, maintenance, debugging and resolving FIX (Appia, TradeScope, QuickFIX) and SWIFT Alliance product implementations on Linux. Maintain stability of the production environment. Provide advanced production support and assistance to development staff in troubleshooting application issues with respect to the use of FIX and Linux. Perform root cause analysis.Provide advanced production support and assistance to development staff in troubleshooting application issues with respect to the use of FIX and Linux. Perform root cause analysis. Provide immediate support for production Appia, QuickFIX and SWIFT Alliance implementations. Participate in intermittent weekend support rotations. Provide support for weekend implementations and Disaster Recovery tests. Manage patching, upgrades and other various infrastructure operations on FIX and SWIFT servers. Create and maintain clearly detailed system documentation and diagrams to be used as job aids and knowledge transfer material. Provide cross-training to team members. Analyze system performance and capacity statistics. Provide recommendations. Maintain, author and debug administrative utilities using shell programs (bash, perl). Conformance to DTCC Incident, Change and Problem management policies and procedures. Work with development staff and teammates to architect implementation and support solutions. Use of Jira, Bit Bucket, Ansible for project and software management. Work both independently and in a Team as an energetic team member. Lead, provide and implement automated solutions. Recommend process and technological changes. Aligns risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately. Effectively complete complex projects and installations within aggressive time frames and budget parameters. Qualifications: Minimum of 6 years of related experience with Kubernetes and other container platforms 5 years’ experience with Red Hat Open Shift Container (OCP) Knowledge of Broadridge Appia, Open-source QuickFIX and SWIFT Alliance Access products. Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Computer Science or Engineering. Knowledge in creating Docker files, building images, running containers, and managing Docker volumes and registries. Good knowledge of FIX protocol and FIX order flow.Good knowledge of FIX protocol and FIX order flow. Good administrator knowledge of Linux and networking with good command over any scripting language such as Shell, Perl, Python, etc. Talents Needed for Success: Platform or DevOps engineer with at least 4 Years’ experience working with Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, Jenkins, CI/CD, AWS, and VMware. Proficient in code compilation, packaging, and deployment. Experienced in code analysis and coverage tools like SonarQube. Knowledge and experience implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Bitbucket, GitHub and Jenkins, infrastructure automation, and cloud environments. Knowledge in creating branching strategies, merging, and managing access in version control tools like Git. Trained in Amazon Web Services (AWS), VMware, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, Linux, Bash scripting, YAML, Bitbucket, GitHub, Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana and JIRA Knowledge in tools like Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift Cluster, AWS, Ansible and Terraform. Hands-on experience with Jenkins for continuous integration and end-to-end automation of builds and deployments. Knowledge in AWS provisioning of AWS services such as EC2, S3, ELB, RDS, IAM, Route 53, VPC, Auto Scaling, CloudWatch, Lambda, SG and SNS. Knowledge and Hands-on experience in VMware provisioning with knowledge of provisioning vm’s, disk storage and all TCPIP related services, such as DNS. Experience in handling Critical and Major production incidents. Hands-on experience in support of a real-time trading environment Good knowledge of solutions that support applications using high-performance messaging/middleware. Understanding of FIX client and Exchange connectivity support. Experience developing automated solutions in a distributed computing environment. Experience devel