Middleware Integrator and SRE Site Reliability Engineer Engineer

Overview Long Term Consulting Opportunity Interview Mode: Video and final round in person. LinkedIn, Banking or financial service domain must. NYC, NY 3 days on site Long Term Consulting Opportunity Interview Mode: Video and final round in person. LinkedIn, Banking or financial service domain must. Looking to onboard a middleware integrator and SRE specialist for their Application and Data Engineering (ADE) team. Responsibilities • The successful candidate will be involved in middleware integration, technical troubleshooting of infrastructure and user incidents • Incorporate Site Reliability Engineering practices into the day-to-day role by developing automated solutions to long-standing problems to ensure minimal downtime and reduce toil • Experience with web architecture implementation including performance, availability, scalability, and disaster recovery planning. • Experience with monitoring and alerting tools, configuring application monitors using industry standard monitoring tools, as well as developing customized monitoring solutions • Revisit SRE Metrics and confirm against the firm and department goals • Identify areas for improvement including automation, toil reduction, resiliency and observability across the platforms and help build up the knowledge and documentation for the team • Partner with other teams in Brokerage such as enterprise infrastructure, networking, security, storage, and database and data center to roll out application platforms successfully as per the design. • Produce reusable infrastructure designs patterns and periodically review / refresh the patterns. • Support vendor / vendor technology onboarding following the Brokerage best practices and security blueprint. • Apply technical skills to automate daily support functions, improve system stability, support hygiene initiatives and deliver innovation that creates efficiency and consistency. • Occasional weekend availability and on-call work on a rotation basis. Required Skills • Strong infrastructure knowledge in Linux / Unix, Databases, Storage and Networking technologies. • Hands-on experience with containers and container orchestration platforms OpenShift / Kubernetes • Experience with scripting in Python and Shell • Hands-on experience of web servers (Apache / Nginx), application integration, configuration, and troubleshooting. • Clear concept of load balancer, web proxies and storage platforms like NAS / SAN from an implementation perspective only. • Familiar with basic security practices to ensure secure hosting solutions, including single sign-on (SSO) and standard encryption protocols. • Prior experience managing large web-based n-tier applications in secure environments on cloud • Strong knowledge SRE Principles with grasp over tools / approach to apply them • Strong infrastructure knowledge in Storage, Networking and Databases • Experience in troubleshooting Application Issues and Managing Incidents • Exposure to tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Open Telemetry framework • Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Desired / Nice To Have Skills • Exposure and experience with data pipeline technologies such as Kafka, Redis and Airflow • Exposure to Big Data platforms like Hadoop / Cloudera and ELK Stack • Capacity planning and performance tuning exercise • Identity management protocols like OIDC / OAuth, SAML, LDAP integration • Cloud Application and infrastructure knowledge is a plus. • Experience in Cloud / Distributed computing technology or certification is a plus Experience • 7 to 12 years in a similar role of hands-on application / middleware specialist. • Prior experience of working in a global financial organization is an advantage •