AddressSS&C is a global provider of investment and financial services and software for the financial services and healthcare industries. Named to Fortune 1000 list as top U.S. company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut and has 20,000+ employees in over 90 offices in 35 countries. Some 18,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest institutions to local firms, manage and account for their investments using SS&C's products and services.
In Australia, SS&C is predominately located in Melbourne and Sydney and has 600+ employees. Most of the Australian division are working on Unit Registry (referred to as Transfer Agency around the world) technology and services. SS&C Managed Funds Administration (MFA) is the largest provider of Unit Registry services in Australia, providing Fund Manager, Custodians and end to end service offering.
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer who has a background in DevOps and software engineering to join our Technology team in the Managed Funds Administration business. You will work alongside software engineers to operate and uplift our inhouse unit registry software supporting a dynamic and fast paced business.
Your role will be diverse and include supporting production, improving the supportability of the existing environment and contributing to our containerisation journey as we uplift legacy systems to a microservices architecture. You will help to build out and embed modern DevOps practices such as infrastructure-as-code (IAC), deployment pipeline automation, observability with metrics, alerting, log aggregation and APM. You will work in a highly collaborative environment embedded in engineering teams and working with other technology teams across SS&C.
About You
You have a sense of ownership of the end-to-end outcomes, even the parts outside of your expertise. You like to contribute your ideas and views to all aspects of the business.
You enjoy the feeling of momentum and progress and like working at a fast pace.
You are passionate about using technology to solve real world problems and improve the lives of others.
Strong decision-making skills, able to balance trade-offs and articulate and justify your decisions.
Exceptional communicator - written communication is excellent, able to quickly produce technical documentation of high quality. Verbally excellent at conveying complex ideas or concepts simply.
Cross-functional - you like to wear many hats and work across areas you are not familiar with.
You are a pragmatic problem solver
Technical Skills
Strong Windows and Linux admin experience
Expertise with AWS cloud infra and networking including EC2, ECS, ALB, VPC, Route53 etc)
Familiarity with Kubernetes a plus
Strong skills in infrastructure-as-code development (e.g. Terraform and/or Ansible) and specific experience with cloud IAC.
Strong containerisation knowledge using Docker
Experienced in CI/CD tools
Strong scripting skills e.g. PowerShell, bash
Experience with log aggregation and APM tools such as Datadog
Experienced working across software, security, networking and system support teams to help establish/uplift practices with a focus on automation and observability
Experience working with uplifting legacy systems to modern tools and practices.
Familiarity with security and compliance needs in a financial services setting
Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. SS&C offers excellent benefits including health, dental, 401k plan, tuition and professional development reimbursement plan. SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.
