

Swift Software
jobid=A.0.0503
DevOps Specialist – Data Engineering & Observability platform
DevOps Specialist – Data Engineering & Observability platform
Apply locations Leiden area, Netherlands time type Full time posted on Posted 30+ Days Ago job requisition id 2024-13550
About the Role
We are seeking an exceptional individual to join us as a DevOps – Data Platform Engineering at Swift in the Netherlands. As a Senior DevOps/SRE expert in our Observability and Analytics Cluster within the Tooling Services organization, you will have the opportunity to lead and mentor a team of engineers operating and growing usage of our Service Observability Platform. You will foster collaboration with our delivery teams across the globe, drive towards further excellence in the management of our data platform, and make a substantial impact in our rapidly growing company.
In this role, you will have the exciting opportunity to enhance the resilience, recovery time, and security of our Observability Platform. As a member of the Run Squad in our Observability cluster, you will work closely with various teams and individuals across the globe towards Operational Excellence.
Responsibilities:
- Coach and mentor more junior engineers, providing technical assistance, and coordinating knowledge transfer.
- Develop and uphold industry-leading engineering practices to assist in fulfilling squad objectives.
- Apply your DevOps expertise to accelerate the evolution of our Observability Platform, focusing on system availability, resilience, and self-service.
- Optimize infrastructure pipelines for performance, scalability, and resiliency, leveraging Ansible and configuration as code best practices.
- Build and maintain applications (Java) to expose observability data for advanced usage.
Requirements:
- 4 or 5-year university degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience.
- Strong experience in designing, implementing, and running DevOps practices and tools for CI/CD and infrastructure as code (advanced Ansible, RHEL, Git, Jenkins).
- Proven experience in operating large on-premises infrastructures (compute, storage, and network).
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Python and Java.
- Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex issues in distributed systems.
- Exposure to data engineering, focusing on crafting and implementing data pipelines and ETL processes using ELK stack.
- Previous experience in a leading engineering resource is an asset.
- Strong collaboration skills required to work effectively with both local and remote teams across various time zones.
Join our team and be part of a collaborative and inclusive environment where we appreciate different work behaviors and value your unique perspective and ideas. We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, as well as a retirement plan.
What we offer
We put you in control of your career.
We give you a competitive package.
We help you perform at your best.
We help you make a difference.
We give you the freedom to be yourself. We are creating an environment of unique individuals – like you – with different perspectives on the financial industry and the world. An environment in which everyone’s voice counts and where you can reach your full potential regardless of age, background, culture, colour, disability, gender, nationality, race, religion, sexual orientation, or veteran/military status.
Swift doesn’t stand still. We are constantly evolving and tirelessly innovating. Working at the intersection of finance and technology is a very exciting place to be right now.
Swift is transforming cross-border payments, making them faster and more transparent than ever before. We are the way the world moves value — every instant of every day, in almost every country.
We are proud that what we do has a critical impact on the global financial community and touches almost every aspect of the financial world. So, what you do at Swift has real impact too — an impact that matters every day. Which is why you matter to us.
Joining Swift gives you unparalleled exposure to knowledge, expertise, and technologies. If you have what it takes, you’ll be able to take on different career paths and have the opportunity to work in teams, departments, and disciplines in countries around the world.
Swift is unique. There is no other organization like ours in the world driving the long-term future of the financial ecosystem. You’ll be surrounded by bright, customer-focused, and intellectually curious people in a collaborative, friendly, open, and inclusive environment.
At Swift we are trusted every instant. Everything we do has an impact that matters. And as a member of our team, you are trusted to make your impact every day.
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