Job Application for Cloud Operations Engineer at Octaura

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It's time to transform markets

Existing workflows within syndicated loan and CLO markets are painful for clients: they are outdated, overcomplicated, and time-consuming. It’s time for a change.

Octaura is reimagining the way these markets trade, with efficiency, transparency and simplicity at the heart of what we do. We bring trading capabilities, data and analytics together for the first time on a digitized platform–fundamentally transforming the markets and streamlining workflows like never before.

At Octaura, everyone belongs

It’s essential that Octaurians are confident in knowing they have the space to use their voice and talents. The world is diverse and we actively want our team to reflect this. We’re a values-driven company and by engaging, solving and evolving together, we create a culture that is collaborative, transparent, impactful and innovative. And fun!

The role in a nutshell
The Cloud Operations Engineer is responsible for building out our operations platform, ensuring efficiency through automation, deploying product updates, identifying production issues and implementing strategic integrations that meet our clients’ needs. The ideal candidate will have good communication skills, a well-rounded understanding of Enterprise Architecture, and an automation background with experience running production environments at scale. The candidate will help develop new architectural patterns for emerging products, contribute to environment standardization, develop new monitoring and security tools, and contribute to maintaining operational BAU.

This is an exciting time for Octaura as we are rapidly growing and are looking for energetic, collaborative and driven thinkers to join us! Please note this role is based out of our NYC office and our current structure is 4 days (Mon-Thurs) in the office, 1 day from home.

Core responsibilities

Contribute to operational readiness and platform stability by proactive automation and reactive environment support
Develop and maintain a platform of integrated systems and tooling to support Agile and DevOps practices across a diverse set of workflows used by multiple development teams
Evaluate and integrate third-party software and configure connectivity with client infrastructure
Maintain and enforce compliance with audit controls and external certifications
Design and implement solutions for managing applications and infrastructure, with goals of increasing the security, reliability, repeatability, and consistency of operational tasks
Work with software developers to ensure best practices of development, processes, testing, operations, production deployment and monitoring
Work closely with business and technology teams to analyze and resolve issues on the platform
Provide day-to-day application-level support for production incidents
Develop and maintain automation application tools, websites, and utilities
Actively contribute to ongoing process improvement to help streamline the development life cycle

Desired qualifications

5+ years of infrastructure engineering experience
Extensive knowledge of modern cloud environments (preferably AWS)
Linux sysadmin and debugging experience
Proficiency in 1 or more scripting languages. Python preferred
Proficiency in Infrastructure-as-code management. Terraform preferred
Problem solving and focus on understanding root-cause of issues
Experience with VMs and containers
Experience running scalable, multi-region production environments
Strong communication skills
Team player
Sense of humor

Octaura Work Perks

At Octaura, our people are our most valuable asset, and we are pleased to offer the following benefits to all full-time employees:

Competitive compensation and equity
Flexible Paid Time Off
Competitive Parental Leave
Daily breakfast, coffee and snacks in the office
90% company-paid healthcare
Onsite gym & discounted membership

We’re committed to equal opportunity employment

Octaura is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

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