Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Managed Systems Operability

Bloomberg L.P.; City Of London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial technology company in London is hiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join a dynamic team focused on automation and server fleet management. This role involves contributing to CI/CD frameworks, improving system stability, and collaborating with various stakeholders to enhance tooling and processes. The ideal candidate has strong programming skills, particularly in Python, and experience in a Linux/Unix environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in software development methodologies and open source systems.
• Expertise in diagnosing and solving issues in a production environment.
• Eagerness to work collaboratively and share knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to CI/CD frameworks and pipelines.
• Diagnose and resolve critical system issues.
• Enhance monitoring and alerting solutions.

Skills

Programming in Python

Process automation

Linux/Unix problem-solving

Automation software (Salt, Chef, Jenkins, Ansible)

Team collaboration

Tools

Git

Telemetry tools (Splunk, Grafana)

Web frameworks (BENTO, REACT, Angular, DJANGO)

Job description

Overview

Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Managed Systems Operability

Location: London

Business Area: Engineering and CTO

Ref #: 10043720

Description

As a Systems Operability Engineer, you will join a highly motivated, experienced and dynamic team that is responsible for providing automatic remediation solutions, stability efforts, and providing self service tooling to manage Bloomberg’s server fleet. Our team provides a low-friction customer experience by providing tooling to combine Appliance and Datacenter server environments regardless of the underlying infrastructure. The team uses the latest automation technologies to reduce operational toil, improve the stability of our mission critical infrastructure services, and to facilitate maintenance of Bloomberg's server fleet at scale.

You’ll work closely with Software Developers, Frontline teams, and other key stakeholders to ensure that we are aligned with business strategies and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to our CI/CD frameworks and pipeline
• Draft process flow charts & procedures, perform capacity planning, and implement changes
• Diagnose and resolve critical system issues
• Continuously refine processes and procedures with a focus on standardization and automation
• Enhance our monitoring and alerting solutions

Qualifications

• Experience programming in Python (or related language) and a good understanding of software development methodologies, open source systems, and familiarity with Git repositories
• Process automation experience
• Expertise in analyzing, diagnosing, and solving problems in a Linux/Unix production environment
• Ability to build and maintain Linux systems through automation software (e.g. Salt, Chef, Jenkins, Ansible)
• Eagerness to work within a group and share knowledge

Nice to have

• RHEL System Administrator level of competency
• An understanding of configuration management, orchestration, CI/CD, infrastructure monitoring and telemetry
• Experience using Agile (e.g. Kanban or Scrum)
• Familiarity with telemetry tools such as Splunk, Grafana
• Experience with Web frameworks (BENTO, REACT, Angular, DJANGO)

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