Cloud Engineer

Location: Kansas City, MO

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

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

Job Title: Cloud Engineer; Kansas City Metro

Location: Kansas City MO/ Hybrid (MUST LIVE IN KANSAS CITY AREA)

Getting to know us:
SS&C / Calastone is the largest global funds network, connecting the world’s leading financial organisations.

Our mission is to reduce complexity, risk, and costs, enabling the industry to deliver greater value to investors. Over 4,500 clients in 56 countries and territories benefit from SS&C/Calastone’s services, processing over 250 billion of investment value each month. Calastone is headquartered in London and has offices in Luxembourg, Hong Kong, Taipei, Singapore, New York and Sydney.

Why You Will Love It Here!

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model & a Business Casual Dress Code, including jeans

• Your Future: 401k Matching Program, Professional Development Reimbursement

• Work/Life Balance: Flexible Personal/Vacation Time Off, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays

• Your Wellbeing: Medical, Dental, Vision, Employee Assistance Program, Parental Leave

• Wide Ranging Perspectives: Committed to Celebrating the Variety of Backgrounds, Talents and Experiences of Our Employees 

• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customized, including SS&C University

• Extra Perks: Discounts on fitness clubs, travel and more!

What You Will Get To Do:

Kubernetes and Azure Experience are Required to Apply.

• 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.

• 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.
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What you will bring:

• 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.
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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)
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Person Specification

You have a passion for cutting-edge 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.

#Digital Worker Enabled#     

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# Keywords: kubernetes azure GitHub Actions Python financial cloud engineer # 

 

 

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 Technologies offers a comprehensive total rewards package designed to support your wellbeing, growth, and future. Our benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage; a 401(k) plan with company match; paid time off, holidays, and parental leave; and professional development reimbursement opportunity.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

 

 

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.