The Platform Specialist in Development Tools will maintain platform infrastructure with a focus on DevOps, collaborating with stakeholders to enhance development tooling services.
Department: Application Engineering
Position Overview: Platform Applications Specialists (PAS) at Squarepoint play a crucial role in delivering and maintaining mission-critical platform infrastructure using the DevOps methodology. As part of the DevTools team, you will work with internal and external stakeholders to build and maintain development tooling services used across the firm.
Required Qualifications:
- Required Qualifications:
- Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- 4+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering roles.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong experience with software development (e.g., Python, Git).
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
- Experience with system administration (e.g., Bash, Linux, Containerization).
- Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef).
- Knowledge of orchestration technologies (e.g., Kubernetes).
Nice to have:
- Experience with on-premise deployments of version control systems (e.g., GitLab, GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket).
- Experience with on-premise deployments of repository managers (e.g., Artifactory, JFrog, Nexus).
- Experience with on-premise deployments of developer platforms (e.g., JupyterHub, GitPod).
- Experience with advanced software engineering concepts and API development
- Experience with build and release systems, including publication, replication, distribution, and lifecycle management of packages and artifacts.
Top Skills
Ansible
Bash
Chef
Containerization
Git
Github Actions
Gitlab Ci
Jenkins
Kubernetes
Linux
Puppet
Python
Terraform
Squarepoint Capital Montréal, Québec, CAN Office
1190 Avenue des Canadiens-de-Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, H3B0G7
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