Senior Systems Operations Engineer

Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package!

Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially, apply today.

Position: Senior Systems Operations Engineer
Location: DES MOINES, Iowa, 50309
Term: 24 months

Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

• Participate as part of focused team of Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) introducing and advancing SRE discipline across multiple applications and customer journeys across the Card Services Platform.
• Drive technology transformation and adoption of SRE aligned enterprise capabilities and products, launch new tooling enablement, automate away complex issues and integrate with the latest technology.
• Leverage experience as a software and systems engineer to ensure applications onboarded to SRE are available, have full stack observability, introduce continuous improvement through code and automation, provide operational insight through analytics, continuously test, are integrated with CI/D and work with application teams to ensure products and service we provide are always on.
• Lead or participate in managing all installed systems and infrastructure within the Systems Operations functional area.
• Contribute in increasing system efficiencies and lowering the human intervention time on related tasks.
• Review and analyze moderately complex operational support systems, application software, and system management tools to ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability.
• Work with vendors and other technical personnel for problem resolution.
• Lead team to meet technical deliverables while leveraging solid understanding of technical process controls or standards.
• Collaborate with vendors and other technical personnel to resolve technical issues and achieve highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability.

Is this a good fit? (Requirements):

• 5+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 3+ years of experience with Application performance, monitoring and optimization using Blazemeter, JMeter, Splunk and AppDynamics
• 3+ years of experience with scripting languages such as Bash, PowerShell, Python, Shell, VBScript, or JavaScript
• 5+ years of experience designing and managing Splunk Dashboards, reports, lookup tables, and summary indexes, including Splunk SPL
• 3+ years of database logging and monitoring concepts experience
• Experience and understanding of AIOPS and related tools such as MoogSoft or Big Panda
• Experience with one or more automation tools such as Ansible.
• Experience with Container technologies: Kubernetes, Docker, PKS
• Experienced with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
• 5+ years of application production support experience
• 3+ years with one or more Agile tools used for tracking user stories or backlogs, such as Confluence or Jira
• 4+ years of Systems Engineering, Technology Architecture experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, or education.