Senior DevOps Engineer
Our Team
Technology drives our business. Our team is made up of talented software engineers, infrastructure engineers, leaders, and UX professionals. We care about technology as a craft and a differentiator. We bring our global products to market with a mix of software, cloud, data centers, infrastructure, design, and grit.
The Role
As a Senior Software Engineer, DevOps, you will be responsible for the automation, performance, efficiency, and scaling of applications and infrastructures. You are a highly creative and intellectually curious engineer instrumental in enabling teams to contribute to infrastructure as code and embrace modern development practices. You must be able to work independently and collaborate across multiple teams to accomplish organizational goals. As part of a team that’s leading the next wave of retirement advice, you will play an integral part in advancing Morningstar’s engineering and operational excellence spearheading modern CI/CD best practices.
Responsibility:
1. Learn existing deployment and application stacks to provide continuous improvements and cloud migration strategies.
2. Work in a diverse technical environment to establish and champion CI/CD patterns
Use operational tools and monitoring platforms to gain in-depth knowledge, understanding, and ongoing monitoring of system availability, performance, and capacity.
3. Work with business partners to establish Service Level Indicators and Objectives (SLIs and SLOs)
Write and execute build and deployment scripts
Set up and maintain software development tools spanning source control, continuous integration/delivery, testing, code review, etc.
4. Implement alerting strategy that makes alerts actionable, unique, and meaningful.
Remain current on emerging technologies
Motivate and push the ‘pipeline first’ mentality
Utilize a security-first mindset
Requirements:
1. Deep knowledge of build, release, and configuration management practices.
2. Very passionate about staying current on trends and best practices in software development and management
Strong, demonstrable knowledge of source control tools (Git, CodeCommit, etc.) and branching strategies.
3. Proficiency in build/release tools (Jenkins, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, etc.)
Strong, demonstrable understanding of Configuration Management (Chef, Puppet, Ansible).
4. Experience programming in one or more popular languages such as Python, Java, C#, JavaScript, Ruby, PowerShell, etc.
Strong knowledge of monitoring strategies and tools.
5. Systems administration-level knowledge of Windows and Linux operating systems.
About Us
DBRS Morningstar is a global credit ratings business, currently with 700 employees in eight offices globally. Formed through the July 2019 acquisition of DBRS by Morningstar, Inc., the ratings business is the fourth-largest provider of credit ratings in the world.
DBRS Morningstar is committed to empowering investor success, serving the market through leading-edge technology and raising the bar for the industry. DBRS Morningstar is a market leader in Canada, the U.S. and Europe in multiple asset classes.
DBRS Morningstar rates more than 2,600 issuers and 54,000 securities worldwide and is driven to bringing more clarity, diversity of opinion, and responsiveness to the ratings process. DBRS Morningstar’s approach and size provide the agility to respond to customers’ needs, while being large enough to provide the necessary expertise and resources.