Cloud Engineer

As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Job Description

Role Purpose

You will bring in-depth knowledge and hands on experience in public and private cloud infrastructure solution design, security, implementation and delivery to enable and cultivate Calastone software engineering teams' knowledge to ultimately enable them to take ownership of full cloud stacks.

Key Responsibilities

• Utilise infrastructure as code tooling to automate and template cloud services.
• Research, evaluate, test, and build cloud services in tandem with workstream requirements.
• Optimize and fine-tune cloud services for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
• Implement and enforce security measures to protect cloud-based assets and data.
• Help develop a deeper knowledge of cloud technology within Calastone's technical teams.
• Follow best practices, focusing on quality, collaboration, mentorship, and continuous improvement.
• Create and maintain detailed documentation of architectures, configurations, and procedures.

Knowledge & Skills

Crucial - The ideal candidate will need to demonstrate a deep passion and expert level knowledge of:

• Full public and private cloud (Azure) infrastructure environments including, networking and routing design and implementation.
• Security principles. implementation and practices across public and private cloud environments.
• Kubernetes, container workload design, management, and optimization.
• Working with software engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable, resilient, and performant solutions.
• GitHub Actions.
• Terraform.
• Telemetry tooling (Datadog).
• Scripting languages, such as Python, PowerShell, or Shell.

Advantageous - The ideal candidate would have some level of knowledge in one or more of the following:

• Adherence to industry standard cloud security and compliance
• Financial services industry experience
• Relevant certifications such Azure Solutions Architect
• Configuration management systems (Ansible, packer)

Person Specification

You have a passion for good technology, attention to detail, and excellent communication skills. We take team dynamics seriously, so you thrive on team alliances like us. We view ourselves as enablers for the business and engineering teams, so you ought to be able to contextualize your work for less technical members of the organization. We need your help to modernize the funds industry, bridging the gap between finance and modern technology to create faster and more efficient service for the benefit of the end investor.

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.