DevOps & Networking Engineer

Who Is AdvisorEngine
We believe that the future of financial advice is personal, scientific and beautiful - these three ideals drive everything that we do.
AdvisorEngine is a leading wealth management fintech platform that creates a unified experience across financial advisors, investors, and business management personnel. Our wealth management platform enables financial advisors to deliver an engaging, personalized client experience and to operate at scale through smart automation.
Our team is made up of designers, enterprise technologists, data scientists, futurists, and business builders. We are based in NYC and Raleigh, NC. If you love data and are driven to create the future of financial advice, we'd love to hear from you.
About the Role:
AdvisorEngine is currently looking for a talented DevOps Engineer to join its technology team, with a focus on system stability, firewalls and networking. We are looking for outstanding candidates to join an agile, highly professional team that collaborates across the entire company to deliver crucial new features for the next generation of Wealth Management software. The position requires a lot of hands-on experience, a capability to learn quickly and an ability to thrive in a fast-paced start-up environment that requires strong multitasking and communication skills.
Responsibilities:

• Manage and tune the production environments for a scalable and highly available distributed systems in AWS
• Configure and manage firewalls, security groups and other network security oriented efforts
• Identify key system metrics and ensure adequate monitoring coverage for new and existing services
• Manage deployments, upgrades, configurations in a controlled, pre-production and production environment with tight operating perimeters
• Engage in the application development cycles to assess the DevOps requirements and implement the required deliverables around deployment and system configuration
• Work on complex, major or highly visible tasks in support of multiple projects that require multiple areas of expertise
• Identify errors and deficiencies as well as develop long and short-term solutions
• Keep up-to-date with security patches and proactively address security vulnerabilities and compliance
• Participate in application operation activities and assist with application troubleshooting
• On call and after-hours work will be required for deployments and support

Required Skills & Experience:

• 4+ years Windows System Administration and hands on experience with typical system administration such as active directory, DNS, etc.
• 4+ years experience with AWS in console and CLI
• 3+ years experience with Fortigate, Palo Alto or other firewalls
• 4+ years experience with security components, like vulnerability scanning, AV, etc.
• 4+ years experience with with CI/CD tools, like Jenkins, Gitlab or CircleCI
• 4+ years experience with Infrastructure as Code and Config Management as Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Salt, Chef, etc.
• Hands-on experience with container orchestration platforms, like Kubernetes, AWS Fargate or ECS
• Experience operating, tuning, and troubleshooting SQL Server and Postgres in Production
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar IT degree or equivalent experience demonstrating DevOps and IT experience
• Demonstrated ability to multitask, context switch, and succeed in a fast paced, dynamic environment
• Strong written and verbal communications, teamwork and problem-solving skills
• A demonstrated respect for production environments with a strong understanding of establishing procedures and principles to keep production running 24x7
• Ability to think outside the box and come up with creative solutions when standard tools don't work

Desired Skills & Experience:

• Experience working with APM tools such as Dynatrace, New Relic or AppDynamics, as well as Log Analysis and Monitoring tools such as Splunk, Elasticsearch, CloudWatch, Datadog, SysDig, etc.
• Experience developing self-healing solutions
• Experience with financial services or brokerage industry
• Experience working with resources in different geographical locations and time zones
• Candidates who have held mid-level SRE roles at B2C and B2B oriented companies (consumer and business facing)