Compliance-Dallas-Associate-DevOps Engineer Dallas · · Associate

Goldman Sachs Bank AG; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading provider of financial services is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join its Compliance Engineering team in Dallas. The role involves managing and optimizing production services, enhancing system performance, and improving operational efficiency through automation. Ideal candidates are motivated engineers with experience in software development and system monitoring, eager to tackle complex challenges in the financial sector.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and life insurance

Generous vacation policies

Financial wellness programs

On-site fitness centers

Child care services

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related technical field.
• Minimum of 2 years technology experience in a commercial environment.
• Experience with automated testing and SDLC concepts.

Responsibilities

• Manage production services by monitoring availability and system health.
• Shape software before go-live through system design consulting.
• Practice sustainable incident management in a blameless culture.

Skills

Java

Python

Perl

Monitoring

Automation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Linux

Automated Testing

Hadoop

Job description

WHAT WE DO:

We are Compliance Engineering, a global team of more than 300 engineers and scientists who work on the most complex, mission-critical problems.We build and operate a suite of platforms and applications that prevent, detect, and mitigate regulatory and reputational risk across the firm, have access to the latest technology and to massive amounts of structured and unstructured data, leverage modern frameworks to build responsive and intuitive front end and Big Data applications. The firm is making a significant investment to uplift and rebuild the Compliance application portfolio.

DevOps at Goldman Sachs combines software and systems engineering to build run, and maintain high performant, distributed, fault tolerant systems. As a DevOps Engineer you will be filling a mission-critical role ensuring that our systems are healthy, monitored, automated, and designed to scale. You will collaborate with engineering teams to continually improve our production services, facilitating fast delivery of new services, and reducing downtime. DevOps utilizes automation, tools and solid engineering principles to optimize existing systems, build infrastructure and eliminate operational work.

We are looking for passionate, curious, driven engineers who thrive on solving operational problems and improving efficiency and would like to apply their skills to Compliance Engineering DevOps.

Job Responsibilities:

• Proactive management of our production services by measuring and monitoring availability, capacity and overall system health.
• Shaping software before go-live through activities such as system design consulting, capacity planning and launch reviews.
• Scaling and evolving systems by pushing for changes that improve capacity and reliability.
• Practicing sustainable incident management in a blameless postmortem culture
• Identifying and building improvements to system behavior, control and monitoring tools.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

Technical Skills:

• Experience in one or more of the following: Java, Python and Perl.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to clearly express ideas and arguments.
• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills with appreciation of technical risk
• Experience with automated testing and SDLC concepts, developing applications in a Linux environment, and sound knowledge of algorithms, data structures and software design.
• Systematic problem-solving approach and a sense of ownership and drive.
• Ability to debug and optimize code and to automate routine tasks.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or a related technical field that involves programming.
• Minimum of 2 years technology experience in a commercial environment
• Experience in some of the following is desired: DevOps/SRE experience, relational databases, Hadoop and big data technologies, knowledge of the financial industry or compliance/risk functions.

Interpersonal Skills:

• Passionate about solving operational problems and constant improvement via automation.
• Highly motivated, pro-active and capable of working under pressure without compromising development processes.
• Strong, committed and reliable team player and strong communicator, able to take direction but also willing to contribute to discussions on design and strategy
• Possess client-facing skills to be able to deal with and form good relationships with the business and other technology groups through day-to-day support and project work
• Ability to multi-task and be effective working in a fast-paced environment
• Interest in financial markets, technology and the ability to learn

WHAT WE DO:

We are Compliance Engineering, a global team of more than 300 engineers and scientists who work on the most complex, mission-critical problems.We build and operate a suite of platforms and applications that prevent, detect, and mitigate regulatory and reputational risk across the firm, have access to the latest technology and to massive amounts of structured and unstructured data, leverage modern frameworks to build responsive and intuitive front end and Big Data applications. The firm is making a significant investment to uplift and rebuild the Compliance application portfolio.

DevOps at Goldman Sachs combines software and systems engineering to build run, and maintain high performant, distributed, fault tolerant systems. As a DevOps Engineer you will be filling a mission-critical role ensuring that our systems are healthy, monitored, automated, and designed to scale. You will collaborate with engineering teams to continually improve our production services, facilitating fast delivery of new services, and reducing downtime. DevOps utilizes automation, tools and solid engineering principles to optimize existing systems, build infrastructure and eliminate operational work.

We are looking for passionate, curious, driven engineers who thrive on solving operational problems and improving efficiency and would like to apply their skills to Compliance Engineering DevOps.

Job Responsibilities:

• Proactive management of our production services by measuring and monitoring availability, capacity and overall system health.
• Shaping software before go-live through activities such as system design consulting, capacity planning and launch reviews.
• Scaling and evolving systems by pushing for changes that improve capacity and reliability.
• Practicing sustainable incident management in a blameless postmortem culture
• Identifying and building improvements to system behavior, control and monitoring tools.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

Technical Skills:

• Experience in one or more of the following: Java, Python and Perl.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to clearly express ideas and arguments.
• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills with appreciation of technical risk
• Experience with automated testing and SDLC concepts, developing applications in a Linux environment, and sound knowledge of algorithms, data structures and software design.
• Systematic problem-solving approach and a sense of ownership and drive.
• Ability to debug and optimize code and to automate routine tasks.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or a related technical field that involves programming.
• Minimum of 2 years technology experience in a commercial environment
• Experience in some of the following is desired: DevOps/SRE experience, relational databases, Hadoop and big data technologies, knowledge of the financial industry or compliance/risk functions.

Interpersonal Skills:

• Passionate about solving operational problems and constant improvement via automation.
• Highly motivated, pro-active and capable of working under pressure without compromising development processes.
• Strong, committed and reliable team player and strong communicator, able to take direction but also willing to contribute to discussions on design and strategy
• Possess client-facing skills to be able to deal with and form good relationships with the business and other technology groups through day-to-day support and project work
• Ability to multi-task and be effective working in a fast-paced environment
• Interest in financial markets, technology and the ability to learn

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in all major financial centers around the world.

Healthcare & Medical Insurance

We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.

We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.

Financial Wellness & Retirement

We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.

Health Services

We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.

Fitness

To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).

Child Care & Family Care

We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

Benefits at Goldman Sachs

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