Middleware Integrator and SRE Engineer

NYC , NY

3 days on site

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Responsibilities

The successful candidate will:

• 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 Morgan Stanley 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 Morgan Stanley 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