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Luxoft Markets is looking for a Senior .Net engineer for the Tools and DevOps team in the Risk Analytics project. We are looking for a person passionate about creating, improving and supporting infrastructure and the set of tools that would make software development and delivery process increasingly smoother, less error-prone, reliable and repeatable. The ideal candidate would have an extensive experience working in Agile cross-functional teams where team members were creating automation tool to streamline development processes for themselves and colleagues. In a DevOps terms we are looking for someone who is strong in the Dev side of things but also willing and excited about applying dev skills for the benefits of the Ops area.
Responsibilities:
- Understand existing application stack, its components and architecture - what needs to be built and deployed, what are the requirements;
- Understand infrastructure architecture of the project - what types of hardware are used and how application components are mapped onto them;
- Design, develop and support build, test and deployment automation infrastructure for the entire application stack using TeamCity, MSBuild (.Net), Puppet and scripting languages (Powershell);
- Design, develop and support monitoring infrastructure for the application stack - automated health and status checks, alerting;
- Design, develop and support logging infrastructure using Splunk - this includes log production (how, what and where application is logging) as well as log aggregation, analysis and automated alerts and status reports;
- Identify and implement technical improvements in the codebase of the application stack - migrate or consolidate source code repositories, consolidate projects and solutions, improve or redesign dependency management approaches (Nuget feed), improve and streamline configuration management approaches across different components;
- Design and develop automated test infrastructure as well as provide technical support for the test team in creating and maintaining the test suites of unit and integration tests;
- Provide technical support and expertise to the application development team regarding automated tools and infrastructure, collaborate with them in order to refine the infra, make it easier to use for the dev teams;
- Strive to improve the automated build and deployment infrastructure - make builds faster, reduce size of the artifacts, improve reliability of the deployment scripts and approaches, refine rollback procedures, streamline documentation for the test and deployment teams.
- Master computer science degree or equivalent experience;
- Over 5 years of .Net development experience;
- Good understanding and experience with MSBuild;
- Good understanding and experience with TeamCity;
- Knowledge and experience with PowerShell;
- Knowledge and experience of configuration management, build monitoring and backup systems/solutions;
- RDBMS (Relational Database Management System) knowledge and experience;
- Skills in SQL and PL/SQL (optimization of databases, query plan, etc.);
- Experience with source control systems (GIT and SVN);
- Understanding of software development life cycle (Waterfall, RUP, Agile methodologies).
Non-Technical Skills required:
- Good spoken and written English (upper intermediate or higher);
- Strong interpersonal skills: communication, negotiation, listening.
Nice to have:
- Experience in designing log aggregation infrastructure and with Splunk in particular;
- Experience in building data centers from the scratch (including cloud solutions), good understanding of networking concepts and principle;
- Practical experience with the configuration management automation tools like Puppet, Chef or similar;
- Practical experience with the monitoring tools like Zabbix, Nagios or similar;
- Theoretical knowledge and practical appliance of IT Service Management practices (for example, ITIL);
- Experience with JIRA;
- Financial risks management domain knowledge or experience working for a bank;
- Knowledge and understanding of Continuous Delivery and Continuous Integration concepts and approaches.
Project is about development and support of the risk management platform used for calculating bank's counterparty risk exposure (CVA) and allowing this to be hedged. The system consumes trades and market data from systems all over the bank and all asset classes, then runs a series of complex risk calculations across the entire trade portfolio and provides feeds to downstream systems of the results. The system needs every trade in the bank before it can run any calculations, and some of these trades are extremely complex products.
The system's purpose is to provide risk reports to groups across the bank as well as external regulators. It is not strictly an end-user application but has circa 100 users consuming its results and working with its UI components. The system must deal with large volumes of incoming data in different formats, with a combination of real-time and daily input feeds. Calculations are extremely large scale and are distributed across a compute grid of few thousand CPUs.
Delivery Process:
- Project team consists of equally sized sub-teams;
- Every sub-team is an independent delivery unit consisting of team lead, system analyst, developers (.Net/Java and DB), and testers;
- High level planning is performed for every release to define the epics (projects) to be delivered to meet the business stakeholders' needs;
- Release scope is split into sprints, and assigned out to the teams for the implementation by project and delivery managers;
- Backlog grooming, sprint planning, demo and retrospective sessions are held for every sprint to achieve fast and continuous feedback from all the stakeholders;
- JIRA is the main instrument for project planning, progress tracking and collaboration;
- Onsite team is responsible for the initial analysis and technical design of new projects that are then handed over to the project team for the detailed analysis and estimation;
- Transparent status reporting to guarantee sprint / project / release status visibility for all stakeholders;
- Communication channels established to support business requirements and technical solutions discussion.
Technologies:
- Back End - .Net/C#, WCF, Data Synapse GRID;
- Database - Oracle, MS SQL Analysis Service.
The candidate is expected to provide his technology expertise to help strengthen the position of Luxoft as a strategic IT service supplier for the customer, with a range of services spanning from very complex and large-scale IT transformational initiatives to application support.