Senior Cloud Engineer I

Business Unit:Global Information Technology

Reporting To:Director, DevOps

Shift:EMEA (1:30 pm – 10:30 pm IST) (India)About Russell Investments, Mumbai: 

Russell Investments is a leading outsourced financial partner and global investment solutions firm providing a wide range of investment capabilities to institutional investors, financial intermediaries, and individual investors around the world. Building on an 88-year legacy of continuous innovation to deliver exceptional value to clients, Russell Investments works every day to improve the financial security of its clients. The firm has over $1 trillion in assets under advisement (as of December 31, 2023) and $302.7 billion in assets under management (as of March 31, 2024). Headquartered in Seattle, Washington in the United States, Russell Investments has offices around the world, including London, New York, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo, Shanghai, and Mumbai.

Joining the Mumbai office is an incredible opportunity to work closely with global stakeholders to support the technology and infrastructure that drives the investment and trading processes of a globally recognized asset management firm. Be part of the team based out of Goregaon (East) and contribute to the foundation and culture of the firm’s growing operations in India. The Mumbai office operates with varying shifts to accommodate time zones around the world.

For more information, please visit https://www.russellinvestments.com.

Job Description:

The Sr Cloud Engineer I is a motivated coder/hacker/engineer who strives to solve problems with elegant and maintainable automated solutions. To be successful in the role, the person must have a deep passion for automation and troubleshooting, and have a thorough understanding of how to bring this approach to migrating and creating workloads in Azure as well as our private cloud platform.

Years of Experience

10-14 years of combined DevOps, Infrastructure Delivery and Azure Technologies

Special Requirements

Weekend break/fix or maintenance work may occasionally be required

Responsibilities

• Collaborate across the Global Technology organization to design and implement our application stack in Azure
• Provide expertise on migrating existing workloads using modern technologies like containerization and Kubernetes
• Create IaC CI/CD pipelines for our public and private cloud platforms using vendor agnostic tools like TerraForm and Ansible
• Work with the DevOps and Architecture teams to create a re-usable model for cloud deployments
• Provide expertise and recommendations to all teams in technology when it comes to cloud technology
• Create and maintain quality documentation

Candidate Requirements

• Expert level knowledge of Azure technology and experience supporting cloud migrations
• Advanced understanding of Microsoft SQL servers and queries
• Experience with deploying .NET/C# and python containers in cloud environments
• Knowledge of containerization and Kubernetes
• Experience with our existing core technologies:
• Splunk, GitLab, Octopus, Kubernetes, Docker, Nagios, AppDynamics, Ansible, RabbitMQ, Redis
• 15 Years of combined experience in DevOps and Cloud
• Experience using and supporting CI/CD systems
• Good understanding of object-oriented development
• Experience in working with Microservice architectures and RESTful APIs.

Core Values

• Strong interpersonal, oral, and written communication and collaboration skills with all levels of management
• Strong organizational skills including the ability to adapt to shifting priorities and meet frequent deadlines,
• Demonstrated proactive approach to problem-solving with strong judgment and decision-making capability.
• Highly resourceful and collaborative team-player, with the ability to also be independently effective and exude initiative and a sense of urgency.
• Exemplifies our customer-focused, action-oriented, results-driven culture.
• Forward looking thinker, who actively seeks opportunities, has a desire for continuous learning, and proposes solutions.
• Ability to act with discretion and maintain complete confidentiality.
• Dedicated to the firm’s values of non-negotiable integrity, valuing our people, exceeding client expectations, and embracing intellectual curiosity and rigor.

Visit us: https://russellinvestments.com/us/careers