Project Description:

Applying to the position, you may join one of the most respected and fastest growing institutional investors in the world. Our client is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds to ensure long-term sustainability. The company invests in all major asset classes, including public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure and fixed-income instruments.

Client attracts and selects high-calibre individuals from top-tier institutions around the globe. Join our team and look forward to:

- Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders

- Stimulating work in a fast-paced, intellectually challenging environment

- Accelerated exposure and responsibility

- Global career development opportunities

- Being motivated every day by important social purpose and unshakable principles

- A deeply rooted culture of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance

If you share a passion for performance, value a collegial and collaborative culture, and approach everything with the highest integrity, here's an opportunity.

Responsibilities:

- Lead and mentor a distributed, multidisciplinary team to manage both operational support and DevOps functions, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.

- Drive and adjust team objectives to meet OKRs (Objectives and Key Results), ensuring continuous improvement and meeting business needs.

- Proactively monitor and enhance CI/CD pipelines, addressing potential issues, and implementing optimizations for improved performance and efficiency.

- Collaborate with clients and stakeholders to identify the most effective infrastructure solutions and recommend tools that align with specific business objectives and technological requirements.

- Foster close collaboration with development, testing, and QA teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment cycles.

- Follow and uphold ITIL processes such as incident, change, and problem management, ensuring strict adherence to service management standards.

- Ensure high-quality IT support services for internal and external stakeholders, continuously seeking opportunities to enhance key performance metrics such as response times, resolution rates, and customer satisfaction.

- Oversee disaster recovery and business continuity planning to ensure infrastructure resilience and minimize downtime.

- Stay updated on emerging technologies and industry trends, bringing innovative solutions to improve operational efficiency and team performance.

Mandatory Skills Description:

Must-have (soft skills):

- Proven experience in team and vendor management, leading teams of 4+ members for at least 2 years, with the ability to coordinate across internal and external stakeholders.

- Exceptional communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to clearly convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and ensure effective collaboration across diverse teams.

- Strong initiative and proactive problem-solving skills, with a mindset focused on identifying issues before they arise and driving improvements without direct supervision.

- Experience working in large-scale enterprise environments, preferably within the capital markets or investment banking sectors, with an understanding of the complexities and regulations involved.

- Solid understanding and hands-on experience with ITIL processes, particularly in incident, change, and problem management.

- Strong organizational and multitasking abilities, with a focus on prioritizing tasks and managing competing demands in a fast-paced environment.

- Adaptability and flexibility, able to thrive in dynamic environments and adjust to rapidly changing requirements or priorities.

Must have hard skills:

- Extensive experience with Linux systems administration and troubleshooting in production environments.

- Proficiency with AWS cloud infrastructure (AWS certification preferred), including best practices for cloud security, scalability, and automation.

- Extensive hands-on experience with DevSecOps and GitOps methodologies, integrating security practices into the CI/CD pipelines.

- Expertise with HashiCorp tools such as Terraform and Vault.

- Strong experience with GitHub, including GitHub Actions

- Proficiency with containerization technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes, with a CKA certification as a bonus.

- Excellent troubleshooting skills for identifying and resolving system, network, and application-level issues.

- Strong understanding of networking concepts

- Familiarity with security gates and QA tools, ensuring secure software development lifecycles (SDLC).

- Comprehensive knowledge of security practices, including SSL/TLS, encryption techniques, and certificate management.

- Scripting and automation expertise, particularly in Python and Bash, with a solid understanding of API integrations for system automation.

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

- Message brokers: IBM MQ or similar

- Monitoring: Zabbix, Elastic

- Security: jFrog Xray or similar, SonarQube, Qualys

- ETL tools

- Ansible

- ArgoCD, including Rollouts

- Artifactory

- Powershell

- Microsoft domain / ActiveDirectory, Windows administration

- UrbanCode Deploy

Languages:

English: C1 Advanced