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Azure Support and DevOps Specialist

Gala Solutionsabout 19 hours ago
Hybrid
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Senior Level
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About the role

Job Title: Azure Support and DevOps Specialist - Operations Production Management Location: Montreal (day 1 onboarding onsite/in-office presence required 3x/week) Schedule: Will need to be available for occasional planned weekend rotational support. Will sometimes have to work from 9am-6pm or 12pm-9pm – this will be communicated in advance.

Duration: 12 + month

The manager wants to emphasize that he’s looking for candidates who have strong Azure experience with scripting. He has some flexibility with the DevOps requirements (if the candidate has Java development skills without the support experience, he is willing to interview if they understand there’s a lot of support involved with the role

Job Description

Company Profile *** is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries.

As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence and strong team ethic. *** can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career - a place for people to learn, to achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles, perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture.

Technology

Technology works as a strategic partner with *** business units and the world's leading technology companies to redefine how we do business in ever more global, complex, and dynamic financial markets. ***'s sizeable investment in technology results in quantitative trading systems, cutting-edge modelling and simulation software, comprehensive risk and security systems, and robust client-relationship capabilities, plus the worldwide infrastructure that forms the backbone of these systems and tools. Our insights, our applications and infrastructure give a competitive edge to clients' businesses and to our own.

Description

You will

  • Be responsible for stability and resilience of the critical Settlements flow at *** which includes diverse technologies hosted by on premises and cloud platforms.
  • Support the systems, their end users and split your time evenly to also perform project tasks to improve the production environment.
  • Apply your technical and domain expertise to solve complex technical and business challenges.
  • Act as a buffer between support and development teams to keep problem resolution in production management team.
  • Use your concise communication skills to manage critical incidents, ensuring all key management and business stakeholders are kept up to date. Focus on improving the performance, observability, scalability, and reliability of our systems by working with the Software developers and Infrastructure engineering teams to develop automated reliability solutions.
  • Implement observability and telemetry systems that support our applications and APIs by providing data for SLIs and SLOs and drill down metrics.
  • Use automation to evolve our systems increasing our velocity in managing uptime and mitigating risk.
  • We are looking for the ideal candidate to improve our codebase in a growing area of The Firm that provides significant potential for career growth.

You must have

  • A bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.
  • 5+ years experience in the IT industry of which at least 2 years in Level 3 Production Management in a multiple application environment on java based applications.
  • Experience in supporting application deployed on Azure Cloud.
  • Expert knowledge of observability and reliability tools and techniques in a cloud-native environment.
  • Expertise in analyzing, debugging and troubleshooting large-scale distributed applications across multiple layers, i.e. software, Infrastructure and database.
  • Experience of working in Python, Java code bases.
  • Strong cross-team communication and collaboration skills.
  • Eagerness to share your own ideas, and openness to those of others nice to haves, but not required qualifications.

Technical skills

  • Terraform or GitHub.
  • Azure Kubernetes, Azure spring apps, Azure Web apps, AzureSQL, Kafka. Azure ServiceBus
  • Experience instrumenting application services end point for logging, metrics and events using Azure monitor/Datadog/Prometheus/Grafana.
  • Experience of observability design principles.

About Gala Solutions

Information Technology & Services
51-200 employees
Founded in 2018

We are happy to talk in detail about our services and how we can assist your business. We specialize in end-to-end solutions for your entire web-related needs. Self-optimizing systems and the need for new ideas powered by intelligent technologies have been a keen interest in meeting the needs of growing customer expectations. We contribute to our client's aspirations by driving real innovation and ideas that transform and grow their organizations.

We offer a wide range of services which include Application Services, Business Consulting, Infrastructure Services, IT Outsourcing Services and System Integration Services, ASIC design services, etc.

We strive to serve our clients by establishing their brand name and developing their portfolio in the market. Continuous profitable growth is a testimony to the confidence of our clients in us. The commitment of our members is to provide exponential growth to shareholders and the best return on their investment.

We systematically rethink how our clients can create an impact on their organizations by analyzing the exceptions of the end customers.

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