About CLS:
CLS is the trusted party at the centre of the global FX ecosystem. Utilized by thousands of counterparties, CLS makes FX safer, smoother and more cost effective. Trillions of dollars’ worth of currency flows through our systems each day.
Created by the market for the market, our unrivalled global settlement infrastructure reduces systemic risk and provides standardization for participants in many of the world’s most actively traded currencies. We deliver huge efficiencies and savings for our clients: in fact, our approach to multilateral netting shrinks funding requirements by over 96% on average, so clients can put their capital and resources to better use.
CLS products are designed to enable clients to manage risk most effectively across the full FX lifecycle – whether through more efficient processing tools or market intelligence derived from the largest single source of FX executed data available to the market.
Our ambition to make a positive difference starts with our people. Our values underpin everything that we do at CLS and define our working environment:
- Pivotal purpose
- Trusted guardian
- Targeted innovation
- Facilitate connections
- Delivering excellence
- Inclusive culture
Job Information:
Functional Title - Assistant Vice President, DevOps Engineer
Department - Technology
Corporate Level - Assistant Vice President
Report to – Director, Application Development
Location – Iselin, NJ Hybrid
Expected full-time salary range between $ 125,000 – 145,000 + variable compensation + 401(k) match + benefits
What you will be doing:
- Understand and assimilate the CLS SDLC requirements, processes and procedures
- Ensure that a viable, consistent and efficient DevOps strategy is implemented in the end-to-end development of applications and products that is consistent with, compliant of and conformant to the CLS SDLC
- Improve and integrate existing architecture with the industry-best automation tools and practices
- Collaborate with release manager(s), development leads, developers, QA, and Engineering teams in the continual improvement and enhancement of the DevOps process
- Analyze, design and implement solutions for CI/CD build, release and deployment automation
- Analyze, design and implement solutions for automated and CI/CD-integrated UT (Unit Testing) and CIT (Component Integration Testing) that can potentially be extended to the ST (System Testing) and SIT (System Integration Testing) phases
- Institute and implement automated solutions for SDLC governance and compliance monitoring and reporting
- Plan, implement and ensure that delivery milestones are met
- Provide automation solutions using design patterns, common techniques, and industry best practices that meet the typical challenges/requirements of a financial application including usability, performance, security, resiliency, and compatibility
- Proactively recognize system deficiencies and implement effective solutions
- Apply significant knowledge of industry trends and developments to improve CLS in-house practices and services
What we’re looking for:
- 6+ years of hands-on experience in (Linux) shell and non-shell (Java, Python, Perl, Ruby, awk, sed, etc.) scripting
- 6+ years of hands-on DevOps design, development and implementation
- Hands-on experience in industry leading build tools such as Jenkins, Maven, Bamboo, GIT
- Hands-on experience with Atlassian Administration, JIRA, Bitbucket, Confluence
- Knowledge of incident management tools such as ServiceNow
- Excellent understanding of automated quality assurance and test strategies
- Hands-on experience with SQL and with at least one DBMS such as IBM DB2 (preferred) or Oracle is a strong plus
- Hands-on knowledge of MS Office toolset including MS-Excel, MS-Word, PowerPoint, and Visio
- Experience in Agile Software Development Practices (Scrum or other)
- Development experience with Node JS or other web-based development a plus
- Prior work with Docker, Kubernetes, cloud services a plus
Professional qualifications / certifications
- Bachelor Degree
- Minimum 3 years experience in Information Technology
Success factors
- Have strong analytical, written and oral communication skills with a high self-motivation factor
- Possess excellent organization skills to manage multiple tasks in parallel
- Be a team player
- Have the ability to work on complex projects with globally distributed teams and manage tight delivery timelines
- Have the ability to smoothly handle high stress application development and support environments
- Strive continuously to improve stakeholder management for end-to-end application delivery and support
