Senior Azure Cloud Engineer

SS&C is a leading provider of mission-critical, AI-powered technology and services empowering financial services and healthcare organizations to work smarter, faster, and securely. Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices worldwide. More than 23,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Job Description

Job Title: Azure Cloud Engineer; (HYBRID)

Location: Kansas City MO/ Jacksonville Fl or Dallas/FW TX

You must have had the title of "Cloud Engineer" or a similar role or need not apply.

Getting to know us: SS&C / Calastone is the largest global funds network, connecting the world’s leading financial organisations.

Our mission is to reduce complexity, risk, and costs, enabling the industry to deliver greater value to investors. Over 4,500 clients in 56 countries and territories benefit from SS&C/Calastone’s services, processing over 250 billion of investment value each month. Calastone is headquartered in London and has offices in Luxembourg, Hong Kong, Taipei, Singapore, New York and Sydney.

Why You Will Love It Here!

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model & a Business Casual Dress Code, including jeans

• Your Future: 401k Matching Program, Professional Development Reimbursement

• Work/Life Balance: Flexible Personal/Vacation Time Off, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays

• Your Wellbeing: Medical, Dental, Vision, Employee Assistance Program, Parental Leave

• Wide Ranging Perspectives: Committed to Celebrating the Variety of Backgrounds, Talents and Experiences of Our Employees

• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customized, including SS&C University

• Extra Perks: Discounts on fitness clubs, travel and more!

What You Will Get To Do:

Kubernetes and Azure Experience are Required to Apply.

• If you have designed and Implemented Clusters in AKS as well as designed and implemented Azure infrastructure, please apply.

• You will bring in-depth knowledge and hands-on experience in public and private cloud infrastructure solution design, security, implementation, and delivery to enable and cultivate Calastone software engineering teams’ knowledge to ultimately enable them to take ownership of full cloud stacks.

• Utilise infrastructure as code tooling to automate and template cloud services.

• Research, evaluate, test, and build cloud services in tandem with workstream requirements.

• Optimize and fine-tune cloud services for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.

• Implement and enforce security measures to protect cloud-based assets and data.

• Help develop a deeper knowledge of cloud technology within Calastone's technical teams.

• Follow best practices, focusing on quality, collaboration, mentorship, and continuous improvement.

• Create and maintain detailed documentation of architectures, configurations, and procedures.

What you will bring:

• Full public and private cloud (Azure) infrastructure environments, including networking and routing design and implementation.

• Security principles. Implementation and practices across public and private cloud environments.

• Kubernetes, container workload design, management, and optimization.

• Working with software engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable, resilient, and performant solutions.

• GitHub Actions.

• Terraform.

• Telemetry tooling (Datadog).

• Scripting languages, such as Python, PowerShell, or Shell.

The ideal candidate would have some level of knowledge in one or more of the following:

• Adherence to industry-standard cloud security and compliance

• Financial services industry experience

• Relevant certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect

• Configuration management systems (Ansible, Packer)

Person Specification

You have a passion for cutting-edge technology, attention to detail, and excellent communication skills. We take team dynamics seriously, so you thrive on team alliances like us. We view ourselves as enablers for the business and engineering teams, so you ought to be able to contextualize your work for less technical members of the organization. We need your help to modernize the funds industry, bridging the gap between finance and modern technology to create faster and more efficient service for the benefit of the end investor.

Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.