DevOps Engineer

About Us:

Versana is an industry-backed data and technology company on a mission to transform the syndicated loan market. By digitally capturing agent banks’ data on a real-time basis, Versana provides unprecedented transparency into loan level details and portfolio positions, bringing efficiency and velocity to the entire market. Through our centralized platform, participants can rest assured they are accessing the loan market’s most credible source of deal information. With the support of our investors, Versana is fast becoming the technology of choice to usher in the modernization of the syndicated loan market.

About You:

Versana is looking for a motivated DevOps Engineer to join our Platform Engineering squad. The squad’s goal is to manage public cloud, manage and improve DevOps practices and help support Versana’s real-time syndicated loan data platform. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of DevOps practices, cloud-native applications, distributed computing, CI/CD implementation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Facilitate application modernization through DevOps practices and CI/CD toolchain adoption and implementation.
• Continually optimize systems and workflows by improving architecture, infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, and observability.
• Ensure the security, availability, performance, change/ incident management, telemetry, and capacity management.
• Provision high availability, scalability, and fault tolerance using new and existing cloud solutions.
• Collaborate with developers to ensure applications are designed with DevOps best practices in mind.
• Monitor server health, application performance metric.
• Develop, maintain, and troubleshoot Azure cloud infrastructure across the entire stack including network, application, and database layers.
• Participate in a rotating on-call schedule for weekend releases and being available to respond to production issues outside of regular working hours, including weekends and holidays.
• Maintain and enhance disaster recovery strategies and backup procedures to ensure business continuity.

Must Have:

• 3+ years of experience with containerization and orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
• 3+ years of experience in design, develop, test, and management of CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Azure DevOps, Gitlab CI/CD, Github Actions, Jenkins, etc)
• 3+ years of experience with scripting languages like Python, Bash, Powershell, etc.
• 3+ years of work experience with Public Cloud (Azure, AWS or GCP)
• 2+ years of experience with Infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, Azure Bicep, Cloud Formation, etc.
• Familiarity with messaging services like Kafka or Azure Eventhubs
• Experience with monitoring, logging and tracing services (DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK, etc.)
• Hands-on experience with build frameworks (Gradle, Maven, etc)
• Good understanding of Linux operating system
• Ability to partner with multi-functional teams and pivot quickly.
• Strong communication, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Curiosity and motivation to learn.

Nice to Have:

• Kubernetes certification or any public cloud certification
• Experience with Azure cloud or Azure DevOps
• Experience with Datadog or any other observability tools
• Familiarity with application development using Java and React

Equal Opportunity Employer

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