Robust Tech House

What do we do?

As a pioneer for digital transformation GFT develops sustainable solutions across new technologies – from cloud engineering and artificial intelligence to blockchain/DLT. With its deep technological expertise, strong partnerships, and comprehensive market know-how GFT offers advice to the financial and insurance sectors, as well as in the manufacturing industry. Through the intelligent use of IT solutions GFT increases productivity and creates added value for clients. Companies gain easy and safe access to scalable IT-applications and innovative business models.

Who are we?

Having started in Germany in 1987, GFT Technologies has grown to become a trusted Software Engineering and Consulting specialist for the international financial industry, counting many of the world’s largest and best-known Banks as our clients. We are an organization that empowers you to not only explore but raise your potential and seek out opportunities that add value. At GFT, diversity, equality, and inclusion are at the core of who we are. Ensuring a diverse and inclusive working environment for all communities is one of the main pillars of our diversity strategy, based on our core values and culture. We have been certified for 2022/23 as a ‘Great place to work’ in the APAC region. So, if you want to have the opportunity to work with an outstanding and progressive organization this position could be right for you.

Role Summary

In this role, you will make significant decisions with a huge impact on building modern banking technology. You would be part of a team, responsible for designing & architecting new solutions, finding creative ways to optimize existing solutions which will improve agility for managing hundreds of microservices infrastructure in a stable & reliable way.

Note: This is an Individual Contributor (IC) role focused on hands-on technical expertise.

Key Responsibilities

• A strong believer of automating DevOps & SRE aspects like infrastructure provisioning, deployment, observability, incident lifecycle, uptime SLA etc.
• Bold to challenge, open to get challenged, curious to learn & grow

The day-to-day activities:

• Working with Kubernetes clusters hosted in AWS
• Using InfrastructureAsCode tooling like Terraform, and Ansible to manage AWS, Azure & Kubernetes resources
• Engage with the development teams throughout the life cycle to help develop software for reliability and scale. Coaching team's SRE best practices
• Troubleshoot priority incidents, facilitate blameless post-mortems, and ensure permanent closure of incidents
• Perform analytics on previous incidents and usage patterns to better predict issues and take proactive actions
• Build and drive adoption for greater self-healing and resiliency patterns
• Design automated software and product upgrades, change management, and release management solutions
• Design, code, test and deliver software to automate manual operational work. Own your tools and services end to end.
• Performance and cost optimization for infrastructure
• Be part of on-call rotation for the team’s tooling and 24x7 support coverage as needed
• Succeed, fail, and learn together with other talented people. We believe in an environment that provides an opportunity for growth and sees education as an outcome of failure that gets us closer to the next breakthrough

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in information systems, information technology, computer science, or similar.
• 8-11 years of professional experience in software engineering
• Experience with administering Kubernetes cluster
• Experience with managing Infrastructure as code using Terraform
• Direct production operations experience in a cloud environment.
• Experience contributing to technology and product strategy.
• Experience leading capability-building initiatives across diverse areas such as infrastructure and operations automation, observability, incident management, architecting HA systems, and other core engineering.
• Demonstrated experience in driving operational efficiency and transparency of a growing engineering organization.

What can we offer you?

• Competitive salary
• 13th-month salary guarantee
• Performance bonus
• Professional English course for employees
• Premium health insurance