Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Managed Systems Operability London, GBR

Bloomberg L.P.; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in financial technology is seeking a Systems Operability Engineer to join a dynamic team responsible for stability and remediation solutions. This role involves close collaboration with software developers and frontline teams, utilizing automation technologies to enhance management of server infrastructures. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in programming, Linux systems, and continuous integration practices.

Qualifications

• Experience programming in Python or related language.
• Ability to build and maintain Linux systems through automation software.
• Eagerness to work collaboratively and share knowledge.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Python

Process automation

Problem-solving

Linux/Unix systems

Continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD)

Collaboration

Tools

Salt

Chef

Jenkins

Ansible

Git

Splunk

Grafana

BENTO

REACT

Angular

DJANGO

Job 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.

We’ll Trust You To:

• 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

You’ll Need To Have:

• 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

We’d Love To See:

• RHEL System Administrator level of competency

• An understanding of some or all of the following: 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)

Bloomberg is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, ancestry, color, gender identity or expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, marital status, national or ethnic origin, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, parental or caring status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy or parental leave, protected veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, or any other classification protected by applicable law.

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